Counter-strike Great game What you think??

[mpodner 0]

About: TFCFirst released to the public on June 18th, 1999, Counter-Strike started out as just another fan-produced mod for Half-Life. But thanks to a series of steadily improving beta releases, the mod started to grow a very strong and dedicated following. As the team-oriented, tactical gameplay was refined and improved and new concepts and maps were introduced, Counter-Strike became less and less of a mere Half-Life mod and transformed into a whole new game.Today, Counter-Strike by far the most popular online action game, with tens of thousands of users playing at any given time. While sold separately in retail stores, Counter-Strike is still available as a free download for existing owners of Half-Life. In Counter-Strike, players square off on one of two teams: Terrorists or Counter-Terrorists. Each team has specific objectives for each map, such as rescuing hostages, bombing a target, or escaping a certain area. Players earn money with which they buy weapons, equipment, and ammunition based on how they perform. With realistic locations, weapons, and physics, Counter-Strike is about as close as you?ll ever get to saving the world. Or destroying it. Overview of Counter-Strike:ConceptCounter-Strike, a multiplayer modification for Half-Life, pits two teams against each other: the terrorists and counter-terrorists (CTs). The terrorists are the bad guys and the counter-terrorists are the good guys, much like the SWAT team for lack of a better comparison. It is the counter-terrorists job to complete whatever objective the map holds within the given time frame or to completely exterminate the terrorist threat. Players can buy weapons, ammo, and equipment that are realistically modeled after their real-world counterparts. In this modification teamwork is greatly encouraged in order to complete the map's objectives. After every round teams members are allocated money based on individual and team performance for that round.TeamsThere are two basic teams in Counter-Strike. The player has the option of either joining the counter-terrorists or the terrorists upon entering a server (see -How to Play- for more information). The counter-terrorists, also known as the good guys, look to eliminate the terrorist threat completely or complete the map objectives. The terrorists, the traditional bad guys, are not too fond of the counter-terrorists and look to stop them at all costs. The terrorists look to completely destroy the counter-terrorist task force or hold them off long enough to prevent any sort of hostage rescue. Different maps present different challenges and strategies for each team. Some players take up one team as a favorite while others will pick the one that suits them the best for that map. It is recommended the player play on each team for each of the different maps and discover which one they are the most comfortable with for that map.Buying Weapons/EquipmentCounter-Strike contains a large variety of weapons, ammo, and equipment modeled after real-world counterparts of the same type. Players who are familiar with weapons such as the AK-47 and MP5 should probably know what to expect from the weapons in Counter-Strike. In order to buy equipment, ammo, or weapons the player must be in a "shopping cart" area. A little green shopping cart will appear on the left hand side of the player's screen while he or she is able to buy goods. The default keyboard bind to pull up the "buy menu" is 'B'. Pressing B will give the player a list of categories to purchase items from. From there the player can decide what he or she needs to achieve their team's goal.Map ObjectivesThere are a variety of maps in Counter-Strike each with their own objectives. While on every map a team can win by completely eliminating the other team, all maps have an alternative option to succeeding. The hostage rescue maps have been in Counter-Strike since the first beta. In the hostage rescue maps it is up to the CTs to rescue the hostages from within the terrorist encampment and bring them to safety. Assassination, Escape, and "Defusion" are other forms of maps. In Assassination maps one of the CTs acts as a V.I.P. who must reach safety before the terrorists can extinguish him. In Escape maps a percentage of the terrorists must escape by way of an escape point before a given percentage of terrorists are killed by CTs. Defusion maps feature bomb targets, which the terrorists strive to plant a pack of C4 to and blow up. It is the CTs goal to stop the terrorists from blowing up their target.Spectator ModesWhen a player dies in Counter-Strike he is unable to continue playing until the round ends. While the player is dead he or she enters a spectator mode in which they are free to roam the entire map and check out the action as it continues to unfold. Also available in the spectator mode is the option to follow a specific player as he or she moves throughout the map for the remainder of the round. While the player cannot participate while dead, there is still tons of game action to be watched.My rating: 9/10 Do you like this game???

[halo2krew 0]

Nice review. Yes i love this game, i have it for xbox and it is so much fun and fast paced

[scab_dog 0]

Yes, I love this Game. Espically Playing it online. This game would be the best ONLINE PLAYABLE GAME EVER. It is a cool game.

[whyme 0]

I've always wanted to play counter strike, but it always crashed on my computer, stupid graphics card.

[Cool_Freaker 0]

Swear I've read a review quite similar :angry:Anyway, CS is fun, for sure, I think the speed is what I like. It's not too fast (Rainbow 6 3: Raven Shield fast), and it's not too slow with lots of health (ie C&C Renegade).Only quibble is the CS community usually tends to be quite immature and generally not very nice.

[sammaye 0]

i used to be really good with cs till about 5 months ago when I came across runescape lol..... think 1.6 is better than source I guess its just that the game is so classic.....but I found my skills totally useless on source for some reason, i guess it was cos all the physics were different and the actual guns acted differently