It’s known as Counter-Strike 1.6, and you can purchase it on Steam.
After a while, the final version of this original game has been released. The game got quite a lot of changes in comparison to beta, and still, it wasn’t completed – a few patches were needed to make Counter-Strike perfect for its time. They felt – here is a hit, so they bought the mod and soon released it as a standalone game, Counter-Strike. Valve, the development company behind Half-Life, noticed an impressive inflow of active players. The star was born and big players in the gaming market couldn’t leave it unnoticed. Many possible in-game tactics and strategies became a substantial reason to visit the matches again and again. Simple and easy to grasp rules were a nice attraction for newcomers. The popularity of this mod became very impressive. Many of them were removed in the following release. Later, they became the primary scenarios in the Counter-Strike series.Įven at this very early stage, the developers and enthusiasts created a lot of maps to play on. The initial playing scenario was Hostage Rescue, then another one was added – Bomb Defusal. Strictly speaking, it was a beta version of the future game. Then, the mod was released for everyone in the community – and it became a real bomb. The authors say many people refused to be testers of an unknown small thing.
One team is of terrorists and another is of counter-terrorists, and they fight each other.įirst, this mod wasn’t very popular. Cliffe came up with the idea of multiplayer matches on a closed virtual territory. That mod threw away the story and heroes, taking only basics from the original product. Once upon a time, two guys decided to make a modification for the popular shooter game Half-Life. So, how the original Counter-Strike made this way from a small mod to the biggest esports discipline on the planet?
It’s a polished and significantly improved version of the (ancient) title. Now, this legendary game is known with the name Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. It defines the very genre of First-Person Shooters, and in fact, it has started the tradition of team-based battles. And some games are so huge that it seems like everyone in the gaming community knows them – they remain for many generations of players, maybe even forever and ever.Ĭounter-Strike is one of such gigantic games. Some are big and still they slowly move away to shadows of forgotten. Some of them are small and disappear quickly.
The world of gaming is vast, with many dimensions of various titles.
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