Counter-Strike
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This article is about the video game series. For the 2000 game, see Counter-Strike (video game). For other uses, see Counterstrike.
Counter-Strike (
CS) is a series of
multiplayer first-person shooter video games, in which teams of
terrorists battle to perpetrate an act of terror (bombing, hostage-taking, assassination) and
counter-terrorists try to prevent it (bomb defusal, hostage rescue). The series began on
Windows in 1999 with the first game,
Counter-Strike. It was initially released as a
modification ("mod") for
Half-Life and designed by
Minh "Gooseman" Le and
Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe before the rights to the game's
intellectual property were acquired by
Valve Corporation, the
developers]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_developer]developers of
Half-Life.
That original game was followed by
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, developed by
Turtle Rock Studios and released in 2004. In November of that year,
Counter-Strike: Source was released by Valve. Released eight months after
Condition Zero,
Source was a remake of the original
Counter-Strike and the first in the series to run on Valve's newly created
Source engine.
[1] The fourth game in the main series,
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, was released by Valve in 2012 for Windows,
OS X,
Xbox 360, and
PlayStation 3.
Hidden Path Entertainment, who worked on
Counter-Strike: Source post-release, helped to develop the game alongside Valve.
[2]There have been several community-made spin-off titles created over the years. These include the
Online series,
Neo, and
Nexon: Zombies.
Contents
1
Gameplay2
Main series 2.1
Counter-Strike 2.2
Condition Zero 2.3
Source 2.4
Global Offensive 2.5
Spin-off titles 2.5.1
Neo 2.5.2
Online series 2.5.3
Nexon: Zombies3
Reception4
ReferencesGameplay
Counter-Strike is an objective-based,
multiplayer first-person shooter. Two opposing teams—the Terrorists and the Counter Terrorists—compete in game modes to complete objectives, such as securing a location to plant or defuse a bomb and rescuing or guarding hostages.
[3][4] At the end of each round, players are rewarded based on their individual performance with in-game currency to spend on more powerful weapons in subsequent rounds. Winning rounds results in more money than losing, and completing objectives such as killing enemy players gives cash bonuses.
[3] Uncooperative actions, such as
killing teammates, results in a penalty.
[5]Main series
Counter-Strike
Main article: Counter-Strike (video game)
Originally a modification for
Half-Life, the rights to
Counter-Strike, as well as the developers working on it, were acquired by Valve Corporation in 2000.
The game received a port to
Xbox in 2003.
[6] It was also ported to OS X and Linux in the form of a beta in January 2013. A full release was published in April 2013.
[7][8]Condition Zero
Main article: Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Counter-Strike was followed-up with
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, developed by Turtle Rock Studios and released in 2004. It used the
Half-Life GoldSrc engine, similar to its predecessor. Besides the multiplayer mode, it also included a single-player mode with a "full" campaign and bonus levels. The game received mixed reviews in contrast to its predecessor and was quickly followed with a further entry to the series titled
Counter-Strike: Source.[9]Source
Main article: Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Source was the first publicly released game by Valve Corporation to run on the Source engine.
Counter-Strike: Source was initially released as a
beta to members of the Valve Cyber Café Program on August 11, 2004.
[1][10] On August 18, 2004, the beta was released to owners of
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and those who had received a
Half-Life 2 voucher bundled with some
ATI Radeon video cards.
[11] While the original release only included a version for Microsoft Windows, the game eventually received a port to OS X on June 23, 2010 with a Linux port afterwards in 2013.
[12][13]Global Offensive
Main article: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was the fourth release in the main, Valve-developed
Counter-Strike series in 2012. Much like
Counter-Strike: Source the game runs on the Source engine. It is available on Microsoft Windows, OSX, and Linux, as well as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, and is backwards compatible on the Xbox One console.
Spin-off titles
Neo
A Japanese arcade adaptation of
Counter-Strike, the original
Half-Life multiplayer modification. It is published by Namco, and runs on a
Linux system.
[14] The game involves anime-designed characters in a futuristic designed version of
Counter-Strike. A selection of single-player missions, mini-games, and seasonal events were added to prolong the game's interest with players.
[15]
Online series Main articles: Counter-Strike Online and Counter-Strike Online 2
Counter-Strike Online is a free-to-play spin-off available in much of eastern Asia. It was developed by
Nexon, with oversight from
Valve Corporation. It uses a
micropayment model that is managed by a custom version of the
Steam back-end.
[16] Announced in 2012 and aimed at the Asian gaming market, a sequel titled
Counter-Strike Online 2 was developed by
Nexon on the Source game engine, and released in 2013.
[17]
Nexon: Zombies
In August 2014, Nexon announced
Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies, a free-to-play, zombie-themed spin-off,
[18] developed on the GoldSrc game engine.
[19] On September 23, 2014, an open beta was released on Steam.
[20] The game launched on October 7, 2014, featuring 50 maps and 20 game modes.
[21] The game features both
player versus player modes such as
team deathmatch, hostage rescue, bomb defusal, and
player versus environment modes such as cooperative campaign missions and base defending.
[22] Reception from critics was generally negative with criticism aimed at the game's poor user interface, microtransactions,
[22] and dated graphics.
[19]Reception
As of August 2011, the
Counter-Strike franchise has sold over 25 million units.
[23]References
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