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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta Review

Ah yes, good old Counter-Strike.  No other shooter series has been as pop­u­lar and competitive for as long as Counter-Strike has.  Well, as many of you know by now, Valve announced a new, long over­due, addi­tion to the Counter-Strike series, Counter-Strike:Global Offen­sive.  Imme­di­ately so many rumors came out about the game and how true to Counter-Strike it would end up being and so on.  All any­one had were a few short videos show­ing some lim­ited game­play to stare at and for­mu­late opin­ions on.  There were some details given out such as the fact that the game is being made for Xbox and PS3 as well as PC, and that they want to make it con­sole friendly to draw in a new crowd.  I think this def­i­nitely scared a lot of the old school CS play­ers as so often when a PC clas­sic goes to con­sole PC gamers feel it gets dumbed down.

On a cer­tainly pos­i­tive note there is the fact that Valve is test­ing with top com­pet­i­tive play­ers to try and make the game as true to CS and as com­pet­i­tively geared as they could.  Regard­less, most of my fel­low Counter-Strike play­ers expected it to be a fur­ther bas­tardiza­tion of the series; as we all know CS play­ers are gen­er­ally a pes­simistic bunch.  Well some time passed, rumors ran ram­pant, and a closed beta was finally announced for Octo­ber 2011 with keys being given out at spe­cial events like PAX.  I was unable to attend any such events but I did weasel my way into get­ting a key via good ole’ EBay.

Octo­ber came and at the very end of the month they announced that the beta was delayed to work in input from pro play­ers alpha test­ing the game stat­ing, “They gave us a lot of feed­back on things we should get in the game before we release it, oth­er­wise we’re going to be get­ting a lot of bug reports or a lot of feed­back and it would just be redun­dant.”  They also went on to say, “The closed beta will grad­u­ally expand to include more and more play­ers, until “by the end of it, every­one will be play­ing the game. It will be the released game that you’re play­ing and then at some point we’ll say, ‘OK we’re going to offi­cially release it.’ We have no man­date from any­body of when we have to ship this. So we’re more than happy to just keep work­ing on this until it’s ready to ship.”  This can be inter­preted as good and bad.  Good in the sense they are going to put a lot of time into pol­ish­ing it to make sure it is right … Bad because if you dont have a beta key you are stuck won­der­ing, “When will the beta open up so I can play damnit?!”

Well finally, Novem­ber 30, 2011 the beta was released and as a diehard CS fan I have been all over it.  The beta cur­rently is a lim­ited build miss­ing some func­tion­al­ity, maps, and weapons.  Cur­rently the only two maps that we have to play are the clas­sic bomb defusal maps de_dust and de_dust2.  As was pre­viewed de_dust has been mod­i­fied a bit to bal­ance out the game­play such as chang­ing up the under­pass, adding a stair­case to get ontop of it, and a few other things.  De_dust2 on the other hand is pretty much the same exact lay­out.  For those of you who are not ter­ri­bly famil­iar with the Counter-Strike series Counter-Strike is a First Per­son Shooter that began over 10 years ago on PC.  The game­play is sim­ple objec­tive based Counter Ter­ror­ist vs Ter­ror­ist sce­nar­ios.  The basic and most pop­u­lar map type is bomb defusal.  The ter­ror­ist objec­tive is to get to one of two points on the map and plant a bomb and then defend it until it blows up with the Counter Ter­ror­ist try­ing to either elim­i­nate all of the Ter­ror­ist or defuse the bomb.  The other main map type are hostage res­cue maps.  The ter­ror­ists have hostages they must defend as the Counter Ter­ror­ists objec­tives are to get in and escort the hostages to res­cue points in the map.  Counter-Strike has more sim­plis­tic mechan­ics over­all than Call of Duty of Bat­tle­field.  There are no iron sights, or any zoom for that mat­ter, out­side of scoped rifles.  There is no sprint.  Run­ning is the stan­dard move speed and walk­ing is used to con­ceal ones move­ment in con­trast to many newer shoot­ers that allow you to sprint.  The sim­pler mechan­ics speed up game­play and make the game much more reac­tion based requir­ing real twitchy reflex shots and accu­racy to be suc­cess­ful rather than posi­tion­ing and shot setup which is com­mon amongst most newer con­sole shoot­ers.  They did stay true to Counter Strike and keep the mechan­ics in Global Offen­sive the same as the pre­vi­ous iter­a­tions.  Had they changed these aspects the game truly wouldn’t be Counter-Strike.

Many other game modes also exist as the CS com­mu­nity has always been big into mak­ing mods for the game and some of the mod­ded game types that were extremely pop­u­lar are sup­posed to be official game modes in the new Global Offen­sive.  One that has been con­firmed is GunGame.  It is a team elim­i­na­tion game where the object is to get one kill with each gun in the game before any­one else in the server does.  This has been an extremely pop­u­lar mod for Counter-Strike for years and is going to receive offi­cial sup­port in Global Offensive.

Source: The gamers blog

Counter Strike: Global Offensive (Preview)

Counter Strike, is coming back again to its fans after releasing the last game of Counter Strike which is called CS:Source. Valve, the producers of Half Life, Team Fortress, and Left 4 dead are planning to release a new game of the famous online game Counter Strike with a new graphic design and a new engine. 

Valve has worked discreetly away from media developing the new game of Counter Strike. After developing and building the first beta version of the game, Valve invited the professional players of Counter Strike to let them test the game. Valve said that Counter Strike: Global Offensive will be mixing the fans of the first version Counter Strike 1.6 and source together. After the first beta test, the players said that it was a good experience. 

The game has been developed frequently to deliver the best gaming experience to Counter Strike fans. Valve released the beta version of the game for the users who have accessed to the code, which they have obtained from Valve social conference. They are distinguished from other players as they have access to special features of the game such having the opportunity to play the game before the public beta version is released in late December. Counter Strike Global offensive will be released for both PS3 and PC with the ability of playing with each other. Will Valve be successful in the console game field after the success in PC gaming field or will it fail? Stay tuned to find out more.