Counter Strike fans all share a rather disturbing little hobby... Killing people, preferably with headshots and enjoying it. There are the Counter-terrorists who just love to shoot the masked faces of the terrorists before they cause havoc. And the terrorists, who have an even more disturbing hobby of planting bombs and blowing up a building into a complete hellhole. And there are the disturbed souls who shoot the hostages watch them run and scream and then fall in the funniest ways possible and then laugh their asses off and then.. well, i wouldn't know much about them now would I? SO! Moving on...
If a serious gamer was to be asked to name a few popular game developer companies they would have Valve on their list. (Along with Rockstar Games.. Hey, who doesn't enjoy GTA?). And any serious gamer would know the next big name in Valve Inc.
COUNTER STRIKE : GLOBAL OFFENSIVE...(..and the drum beats and electric guitar comes in...)
I shall refer to the above mentioned game as CS : GO. The Counter Strike series is as famous as Obama in the world and competitive gamer or not, you must have played at least once. If you haven't, play it now. The story began with 1.6...then came the Condition Zero.. and then Source..and now this big boy came.
So is it really as good as expected? The hype created by its trailer was immense. CS fans around the world jumped when they heard about a new CS game. My own brother jumped up and hurt his head. But was it worth all this? (I'm not talking about my brother's head.) Read on, and find out!
THE REVIEW
CS : GO was definitely made with a whole lot of care. The graphics, the AI, the guns. Every detail is as good as one would expect from one of today's leading game developers. Let's face it. CS 1.6 and its successors are by far the most popular games ever made and their names are known by gamers and non-gamers alike. But it never really excelled in graphics did it? For all we have seen, you could throw a grenade and it would bounce back blast on your head. See, now that was simply annoying. It wasn't even funny. But CS : GO has excelled in every aspect of an FPS. The game still maintains the essence of a tactical shooter. And in such good ways. The game runs on the Source engine, the same engine which powered Counter Strike : Source, released in 2004 (sounds a bit ancient, doesn't it?). But there are major differences between the two games. In the most subjective way possible, I tell you, CS : GO contains all the improvements while Source had all the downers. The brand new CS game has new weapons, new game modes and a completely reshaped new UI. Valve did not have this idea while making CS : Source ten damn years ago. But hey, you cant blame them now. Gaming had not matured much back then and everyone loved the classic CS user interface. But you have to give it to Valve for achieving immense graphical improvements in CS : Source which most games at that time could not achieve. But getting back to CS : GO...
The Gameplay...WOW!
I must give it to Valve. The gameplay of CS : GO is absolutely amazing. In its essence the gameplay retains the native CS experience with significant improvements. Each player joins either the Terrorist side or the counter terrorists and kills the member of the other side. CS has always taught us that you don't second chances and death is permanent. Players, after being drilled with a full SMG round, face death and do not respawn until the next round. Yeah, native CS gameplay. As before, you purchase weapons at the beginning of each round which you can drop and pick up dead opponent's weapons. Talking about buying weapons....tijanhfdjniaundanfufu djifnaufnh......sorry, that was my exact reaction of bewilderment after seeing how i could buy weapons on CS : GO. It looks something like :-
Yeah, pretty darn cool, right? Now stop drooling and get the game already! Overall, the graphics of the game are exceedingly good. Every spark of every trigger pressing session is seen and not a detail is missed. There is blur effect around the mouth of a gun while firing which just adds a hell lot to realism. Oh, almost forgot. The explosions. HELL YEAH! These are extremely cool to watch. With every explosion of a grenade or a C4, there is an outstanding "blur-and-shake" effect. You'll know it when you see it and you'll love it. The age-old flashbangs are there too with the effect being a similar one seen in the Call of Duty series. Like going with and then seeing the world as though you're high on cocaine...oh you know what i mean!
Weapons, Maps and Damn Good Game Modes :D
Alright, extremely quick easy quiz. What are the four most used guns in any CS game.....? .......
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Fine fine, I'll answer it myself! The M4 carbine (my personal favourite), the AK-47, the Magnum sniper rifle and the legendary little Night Hawk/Desert Eagle. If Valve would have replaced any of these, they would have shut down and their officials would have been sniped using Magnums (yeah, you guessed that one.). So now you know four of the weapons present. There are 36 more. And 8 new additions. I'm sorry that i'm spoiling it in such an evil way for you, but Molotov Cocktails (exclusive to terrorists) is a great new addition. Yeah, those fired up bottles of alcohol terrorists think are grenades and love tossing around like a tennis ball. Oh, and an incendiary grenade for the counter terrorists. They seem to have chucked out the MP-5 i have no idea why. Probably forgot to put it in. A detailed list of weapons is here too (I am too nice and you are too lazy to google the stuff so..) :-
http://counterstrike.wikia.com/wiki/Counter-Strike:_Global_Offensive
The maps of the game include new maps as well as redesigned versions of old maps. Remember dust? Of course you do. You remember it more than your own house don't you? Well chuck those memories of the old maps out. Older CS fans are in for a surprise as the redesigns are not like the ones in Source. Source had redesigned maps but the map layout was the same. GO does not have that. Places of hiding have changed and roads to bomb sites have changed. Might annoy some at first, but the maps are a joyful ride for the adventurous ones. Maps are set with lovely detailing. A much improved concept in CS GO is the fire in the game. Like "Fire". Like literally. The fire. Flames. Got it now? Things can be set a blaze and the flames ever travel a bit and smoke is created from each flame. The fires can even be used for distracting enemies or hiding from some and is a great graphical effect on the game.
Lastly, the game modes. Hostage rescue. Bomb defuse. No need of any explanation.. But wait, thats not it! CS has matured from shooting terrorists, defusing bombs, planting bombs, saving hostages, and shooting hostages and watching them run and scream and....ok, fine sorry! Moving on... CS GO includes three new game modes. "Deathmatch" where you gain the highest score by killing with different weapons offering different scores in 10-minute matches. There's "Demolition" where you can't buy weapons and have to kill atleast one enemy with a weapon provided by the game from a predetermined set of weapons. And there is the "Arms Race" which is chaotic as hell. This mode provides respawning in a round and on each kill a player is given a new weapon. The downer is that there are only two maps for this mode. But we always have the smart guys who can make new maps so no worries for PC gamers.
Conclusion
What? Is it over already? Well, yeah. CS GO isn't that big of a game in itself. The multiplayer is non laggy provided you have good internet connection from faithful ISPs and good hardware. You can play offline too with those AI guys called BOTS. They are smart, trust me. Call of Duty and Battlefield players have to change their strategies in order to get the best of this game. All in all, pretty awesome.
Oh! Oh! And the trailer..
And the shopping link :-
http://www.amazon.com/Counter-strike-Global-Offensive-Pc-Game-MAC/sim/B009FZZUPQ/2
Thank You so much for reading this. :) (if you did read it and not just skip to the end)
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