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About
Counter-Strike is an FPS (First Person Shooter) game developed by Valve, and released to PC.
History
The first version of Counter-Strike was a mod for Half-Life engine, GoldSrc, released on June 19, 1999. It became a hit with Half-Life fans, so much in fact that Valve released the first retail version of Counter-Strike (Counter-Strike 1.0) on November 8, 2000.
Becoming an even bigger hit, Valve quickly began work on a sequel, named Counter Strike: Condition Zero. After 4 years of development, and going through 4 developers, the game was released on March 23, 2004 to mixed reviews. Later that year, Valve ported the original Counter-Strike (now referred to as 1.6) to their new engine, named Source. Counter-Strike: Source (or CSS) was released on November 1st, 2004 to acclaim and still has a large fan base to this day.
After the hit that was CSS, Valve began work on other games, such as Team Fortress 2, Portal, and Left 4 Dead. Then, on August 21, 2012 the latest version of Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (from now on referred to as CS:GO) has been released. CS:GO received rave reviews like its predecessor. It is currently the 2nd most played game on Steam, only behind Valve’s own DOTA 2.
Reception
After it’s release the Counter-Strike immedietly became the favourite game of the E-sporters due to it’s minimal requriements and easy, competetive gameplay. Also the Counter-Strike series won several awards like
Action Game of the Year 2000 -- Actiontrip.com
Online Game of the Year 2000 -- GameSpot UK and US
Special Award for Multiplayer Gaming 2000 -- Gamespy.com
Action Game of the Year 2000 -- Gamespot US, Readers Choice
Game of the Year 2000 -- VoodooExtreme, Readers Choice
Best Multiplayer 2000 -- Electronic Playground
and several other awards.
Impact
The Counter-Strike was one of the games which formed how, the today multiplayer, FPS are look like and work.