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Summary: Get Addicted
Review: I hate to admit it, but this game has made me scream at my monitor so violently- my family thought I was insane! Its *that* intense. Counter-strike is as competitive as any sport, and as nerve-wracking as a war. Prepare to think, react, and work as a team... your survival will depend upon it. Created as a free add-on for the already legendary Half-Life, CS has quickly risen to claim the title of 'most popular online action game' with a fan-base that easily dwarfs such big-budget names as Quake III and Unreal Tournament by staggering numbers! Play as a terrorist or counter-terrorist as your team strives to complete its predetermined objectives- such as rescuing a group of hostages or planting a bomb. Based upon your success in these missions, you will be rewarded money to buy better guns, armor, and equipment at the start of each round. For unlike other first-person shooters, such things aren't spawned all over the place. Buy smoke bombs to cover your movement. Throw flash grenades to blind your enemy. Control vast areas of the board with a sniper rifle. There are many different strategies -but play very carefully; because each player can only die once per round, and there are no 'health packs' to be found. When you die, you simply wait and watch the other players until time runs out, or one of the two teams are victorious. It all combines for an unforgettable game! Get addicted right away! If you have Half-Life already (And who doesn't?), than you can download this game for free. If not, then this bundle is truly worth your looking into, because as of right now- there is no better online game out there! What are you waiting for? -Make sure you have a very fast connection however... Otherwise you will be taking a lot of dirt-naps. But every PC gamer should have a cable modem by now anyway!
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Summary: GREATEST GAME
Review: This is, absolutely, positively, the greatest online game of our time. Yeah, you heard me right. I got this game as a Christmas present 2 years ago. Ever since then, I have played this game EVERY chance I get. Graphics are awesome, weapons are wicked, gameplay is insanely addicting. If you have a fast enough computer, a little time on your hands and a decent modem, buy this game and get ready to experience one of the greatest games you will ever play. For even more fun, call up your friend and tell him to buy the game. Then, find out what online server he is at, then hop in and compete against each other and 1000's of other people across the nation, and the world. BUY THIS GAME! YOU WON'T REGRET IT! Unfortunately, Counter-Strike is only a multi-player online game, although the mod's of other Half-Life games that came with CS are pretty cool too. Some ARE one-player. Another down-side: It will not work well if you do not have a nice computer with a decent memory card and modem.
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Summary: Counter-strike thinking of getting it?
Review: Well what I'm going to say is get it. Ok you can download offthe net which beta 7.1 download about 60.4 Mb roughly from counter-strike.net. I play it when I can :-) I used to play quake 3 and 2 on the net, but now its Counter-strike it is THE best game ever! I got the downloaded 7.1 ok but I been with the beta since it first came out it was very buggy then, but when this cd with version 1 comes out I'll down load it as well as buy the cd as well so I don't hav to update and intall all the patches I hav ok soz bear with me at the mo plz... Being terriosts you either protect hostage, plant bombs or assaintent VIP! (Think of some one you don't like lol!) CT u resues hostage, protect VIP's, defuse bomb unless u killed all the Ts You hav your personise name there are clan out that but what ever you do DON'T CHEAT! but hopefully custom skin will be taken away to stop ainbot etc.. Pratise and you will be awarded You feel you are in the game in real time based and I'm sticking with it, going to try Hostile intent, urban warface and fire arm (Other modifactions) but counter-strike will always be tops Hope it helps
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Summary: THIS IS THE BEST MULTIPLAYER GAME!!!
Review: Ok, first of all. The weapons are realistic stretching from the high powered .50 Desert Eagle to the infamous but widely used M-4 Rifle. The damage is realistic, in a couple of hits you'll be dead in a heartbeat. The maps are great stretching from de_dust which is the prefered map of most counter-strike players in which you have to planet?defuse a bomb or just anihilate each other, and cs_assault is basically a wherehouse. There are ventilation shafts to go through and 2 other ways to get in. I say it's just about the same as the Alamo except with grenades and machine guns. Next they have a variety of people who play online. They are very cooperative if you don't make them mad or anything or unless you join a bad game. Most of the times I play though the people cover me as I am entering the battle zone or through flashbangs and have a friendly chat with me. One of the next things is that you DONT need the cd to play. You can give it to friends so they can install and enjoy the game with you. But the best thing I love about this game are the gunfights. They are fast paced and always keep you on your feet. Hope this was helpful!
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Summary: Without a Doubt, One of the Best FPS Games
Review: Counter-Strike is a modification (mod) of the popular game Half-Life. The game is based around a terrorist and a counter-terrorist team which will play in various situations including bombing/defuse missions, hostage rescue, protect/kill the VIP and Escape. Counter-Strike is very fast paced and requires you to have fairly good reflexes in order to do well, since you will always be playing against people that are online. What makes this different from most FPS games, is that once your killed, you must wait for the round to finish. A round on a regular server will usually last around 3 minutes. Having to wait for a round to complete can be boring, but it is always tense watching the last counter-terrorist having a shootout with the last terrorist. As each round is completed, your team will get money which you can use to buy new guns, armor, various grenades, and even night vision. The economics involved in getting the better items in the game are based on how well your team does as a whole, which adds a strategic element to the game.
In the graphics department, Counter-Strike is a fairly unimpressive game. They look quite dated since the game was built on the ancient Half-Life engine. What makes this game amazing is the amount of maps and characters that you can acquire on the internet and how many people are playing the game at any one time. You can download thousands of maps, character models, and weapon models that will make the game look much more realistic and fun as well. With about 10,000 servers running games, there is never a time when you can't find a game to play with up to 32 players. You'll need a fairly good computer to have this game run smoothly. I recommend having at least a Nvidia GeForce 2, a DSL connection, and a good quality mouse (optical is best). There is one drawback to the retail version of this game; You can download the mod for free if you own the original Half-Life, which retails for about 10 dollars. Also, Counter-Strike Condition Zero, a completly new game with single player, slightly better graphics, new weapons, and new multiplayer maps is supposed to be coming out somtime this summer, so it might be smarter to just wait for that.
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Summary: GREAT GAME I HATE IT
Review: THEIS GAMEES IS ONE THE WORST ME EVER PLAYED.IT ES MUCHO BLOODY, POOPLES ON THEIS GAME RE NOT SARMT AT ALL! TYEH TAKEL INTO THEIRS MICROPHEUONES AND SAY STUPIDO STUFFS. I ALWAYSES GET ME SHTO BEFROE I GETS TO MY BYU A GON. ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US! WHNE I GO OTU PEOPLE CALL ME A NUB, WHTEVERY THAT MEANSF. OD NOT BYU THEIES GAME, IT SUCSK BAD NARODS.
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Summary: It's totally worth your money, but get half life instead
Review: Counterstrike has taken up more of my time than any game (read: other part of my life) this past year. It's the best multiplayer time you can have, and it's even better when you have one or 2 friends to talk to and decimate the servers with. good points: very balanced, lots of gun types, "realistic" without losing its fun value, thousands of servers (play for free) bad points: when you die, you have to wait a while (but you can watch others play, and figure out how to be better), not as graphically impressive as UT or Q3ta (but the gameplay is far better) . . . this isn't much of a list of bad points . . . sorry. CounterStrike is definately an amazing game, but here's my suggestion: (I hope no one gets mad at me for this . . .) Buy the original half-life. Get good at it. not really good, but good. learn the physics and the handling. then download counterstrike and team fortress free from the net. Then you get HalfLife, one of the greatest single-plyer games of all time, AND counterstrike, for roughly the same price. also, when you do get around to testing your mettle, you might (thats a big might) spend a lot less time watching, and more time winning. final thing: people get REALLY MAD playing counterstrike. Keep your cool, plz. :)
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Summary: Half-Life: Counter Strike
Review: Half-Life: Counter Strike is a first person shooter. It does not have a single player gameplay, It is a multiplayer only online game. There are four types of games, 1. Hostage Rescue:- Players must save hostages from the terrorists, 2. Bomb / Defuse:- Place a bomb, 3. Escape:- Player must escape to a certain point alive, 4. Assasination:- A certain player is targeted. Each games have lots of maps and many realistic weapons, The map design is also very good and they last upto four minutes, But players dont respawn. Before every game players are given a certain ammount of cash to buy weapons and other inventory items of your choice. The weapons are very realistic and they also do a lot of realistic dammage, Like the head shot is very fatal and leg wound will affect your movement ect. Counter Stike is built on the quake2/half-life engine. It has the same great main menu of half-life but the graphics are quite dated today, It does not have the outdoor environment of unreal tournament or the curved textures of quake3, But compared to the other two it connects very fast, And the game runs very well and also the charecters look very real. Counter Strike is surely the best multiplayer game on the market. If you are into first person shooter multiplayer then counter strike is a must, You could also download it for free at its website if you have Half-Life.
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Summary: Played this game for 3 years
Review: I've played this game for 3 years and it still has great replay value esp. if you are a hardcore online 3-D shooter player. The thing that got my attention over playing other popular games like Quake 3 and Unreal was not the graphics but the game style and seemingly less lag I was getting from Quake 3 and Unreal despite having a T3 connection and enough ram to have 2 games running at once and a decent video card to still show the quality of graphics. However, seemingly the lag on Quake 3 and Unreal was such a dissapointment, counter-strike offers it all. The teamplay is important if you decide to join a clan and scrimage other clans. It is also important when joining tournaments to scrim other clans. But that stuff is for the elit players who aim like robots and look like they cheat though they are not. Basically the game plays out as having your choice to join a team of counter-terrorists who try and complete a mission by either diffusing the bomb or preventing them from planting the bomb by killing the whole terrorist team or rescuing hostages. Whether you rescue hostages or try to diffuse the bomb completely depends upon the map. If you join the good guys you get to choose counter-terrorist weapons such as the colt M16 rifles or the counter part Terrorists get the Ak-47. There are many more guns but these are most used esp. the AWP rifle which kills with one bullet (unless you hit the arm or leg). Each gun has its its advantages and disavantages. For example the M-16 is lighter than the AK so you run and move faster, however it does less damage, you can put a silencer on the rifle (though I never found the silencer useful because they still hear your shots...it just sounds cool with it on). The AK is heavier but the .30 caliber bullets stop anyone in their tracks and does more damage. It is controversial who likes which gun but I personally loved the AK better. People would like the Colt M-16 better because to them it has less recoil upon its first opening bursts making it more accurate. However, I disagree because when you need to go full auto it tends to spray in larger firing patterns than the much heavier AK. It really depends on the person and you need to learn to use all the weapons appropriately and turn the disadvantes to nothing. Overall I have to say this is one of the best games made. The only 3-D shooter that ranked on my #1 list was Quake 2. (I still miss the grapple hook). As for realism it's not a realistic type combat like Rainbow 6 but who really cares it's a game. I found less realism makes it more fun anyways. (Though R6 is pretty good too). Some beginner strategies. 1. Always aim for the head since it is an instant kill unless they wear a helmet which prevents instant death but still does huge damage to smaller caliber ammo.
2. Footsteps can be heard more efficiently if you buy a headset. This is used by the pro players because they can tell where people are located and begin fire even before seeing the person. Remember bullets can go through walls and whatever is in the way.
3. Learn to control the recoil. I do not advise going full auto all the time but if you control it you can kill many people at once esp. close range. In general if you need to go full auto begin firing at the head and pull down to the feet. Usually the recoil pattern fires up and the right so you need to pull down and to the left.
4. Burst fire is more accurate so use it often. Use 2 burst shots followed by an accurate 1 burst shot. And always aim for the head.
5. Learn to use the AWP rifle. It is essential in turning the tide. It is a sniper rifle that kills in one shot. The key here is anticipation and good aim. If you become fast and accurate with this weapon plus wielding the overpowering Desert Eagle you can become near invincible. I've killed 12 people with desert eagle and AWP combo when there were 16 on each team which means I killed the whole team except for 4 and thats no easy task.
6. Learn to use the Desert Eagle. It is the most powerful handgun in the game and even deadlier close range (which covers the closer targets that AWP has trouble with since moving screws up AWP aim).
7. Learn to switch effectively from pistol to primary weapon or even a knife for instant humiliation of your enemy. These are some basic everyday tips and there are many more but the key is playing alot. Dont get flustered if you get beat in alot the first month because everyone gets better.
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Summary: Best game ever to come out for PC
Review: What can I say....this mod is just great...I've been playing CS since beta 1 (thats right, the very original, over a year now) and it hasn't had a dull moment yet. Whether your charging through a map with your mp5 blazing or sniping with your sniper rifle, you always feel on your toes. The maps and weapons are different enough that you actually prefer one group's (T or CT) weapons over the others, while it still maintains a surprisingly good balance of power. Even if you are one of those people with a dial up, where you can't get online and play a good solid game on-line with other people, theres many bots out there which simulate other players extremely well. Each gun has a specific strategy to it as well. For example, the m249 para machine gun has an absolutely massive clip (100 bullets compared to the standard 30), but after firing about 10 rounds the recoil starts to make it inaccurate. This makes the game challenging and fun to experiment with while you find out what guns you like. I've had friends, who aren't very much into gaming by the way, and love this game so much they go out and buy it just to play CS. If you have to choose one game to get for christmas this year, DO NOT pass this one up, you'll be sorry! Hope to see everyone in the games, say hi if ya see me... -?-
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