Counter-Strike

Playability, Controls, Game Modes, Weapons... Everything is amazing in this game. It played even more than the next game, Counter-Strike: Source.

This game is amazing at moddable so this was the reason why it is played too long. AMX Mod X extensions, mods was the core of the servers. That mods and extensions made the game playable for a real long time.

Deathrun, Jailbreak, Zombie, Deathmatch, Capture The Flag, BunnyHop, KZ... There was a lot of mods for this game and all of them are amazing, I played all of them with enjoy.

Regarding shady sovereign. The game is supposed to be REALISTIC, not SF. If you like Unreal Tournament or Quake fine, go play that. CS was never intended to be a game like the ones you mentioned, some kind of an alien game with non-existing supernatural weapons that reload automatically. And about the maps, I really think you didn't play the game enough, it has hundreds of maps, maybe more, of different sizes. But if they are not played in major competitions they don't stand a chance, they are played only for fun.

Personally this is the best game ever, entertaining, competitive and fun. The only thing I hate about the game is the Source version... but that's just me.

Contrary to some people's opinion, pitchforks, jetpacks, ninja stars, and grenade-throwing hostages were never part of the game. A simple look at the changelog for the game will show that these aspects were never included in any release of Counter-Strike.

Yes, to me this is better then World of Warcraft, Halo 2, or any other game for the most part. The game is really just about the multiplayer so if you like good single player games go play both Half-Life's for that. This game has been popular for a long time for many reasons. The first being the mod community who help better the replay value. Second it's hard to perfect the game since their are so many damn good people online. Lastly the gameplay itself is addictive and once it pulls you in, it won'r let go.

Gameplay: Counter-Strike may at first appear to be just like a lot of other FPS's, boring and generic. Whoever would think that after playing the game for a little while would have to be on drugs to think that. The game has you choose to be a Terrorist or Counter Terrorist. The best thing of each side is both sides have their own set of objectives depending on the map you are playing. The Terrorists on many maps have to plant a bomb and defend it from the Counter Terrorists who try and disarm the bomb. While this may sound simple there is a lot of strategy to this especially if you have only a few members on whatever side your on. The shooting in the game is great as well as you get like twenty weapons on each side which include pistols, machine gun, sniper rifles, ak-47, silencer, dual pistols, and many other great weapons. The firefights in the game are intense and when playing things get very suspenseful since you can get sniped from far away and not even see it coming.

Graphics: They are good for the time and were updated by the great people at Valve. Yet, many new CS's came out, but this version still looks good and can hold its own against many other FPS's right now on the market.

Overall: 5/5

A pure kind of action.With real players,with real guns,against real players.Successful maps,guns,weapons.There is never an end,eternal challenge.But the minimum A.I. and maximum human factor never makes it seem again.And all these human factors;tricks,mistakes,different plans...makes the graphics not so important.More important than graphics maps are very suitable for seek and destroy,unstoppable rush,hiding somewhere to shoot in the back or big battles in big areas.The guns are so many and realistic so you don't stuck into a character during the game.It's not hard to learn how to play but so hard to learn to play well.But no matter how good or bad you are,you'll never get bored.Other thing about the game is,this one makes you a real hero.You're in a team and coordinate with plans but sometimes you have to stand up just by yourself and fight alone.By winning,you don't save a computer A.I. character;a real human character.So you can be the hero of the day.