Counter Strike

Title: Counter Strike
Platform Played On: PC
Release Date: June 12, 1999
Date Played: September 1999 - June 2004
Time Played: 300+ hours
Completed (Y/N): N/A
Score: 5/5


Opinion:
Counter Strike was the first time I engaged in any kind of competitive gaming. Prior to CS, entirety of my gaming career was based around single player.

I first found out about this amazing mod for Half Life in 9th grade while talking to some newly aquired friends in my Algebra class, same friends that would introduce me to EverQuest later that school year.  At the time Counter Strike was in version beta 0.7, hosted on the creator's web site, and noone really knew about this revolutionary mod.

Counter Strike offered a handful of maps with 3 different objectives, Demolition (where terrorists had to plan a bomb and protect it for 30 seconds), VIP (Where one of he Counter Terrorists had only a pistol and had to be escorted across the level without being killed), and Hostage (rescue hostages). My most memorable  moments are not on de_dust like most other players, I fondly remember 747, oilrig and Aztec maps, two of which were removed shortly after the game went mainstream.

Counter Strike and its 800x600 resolution days revolutionized competitive multiplayer and sucked thousands of hours from players worldwide. Its been twelve years, and Counter Strike is still one of the most played games worldwide, towering over more recent titles such as Call of Duty, and Left 4 Dead, it even has more players than its remake CS:Source.

Counter Strike remains to be a great multiplayer game, if you have never played it, then perhaps you are better of jumping into Counter Strike: Source, as the original Counter Strike looks pretty dated. But if graphics are of no importance to you, then CS is still as strong and as fun as it was 12 years ago, before some of its current players were even born.

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