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When year 2000 there was no game like Counter-Strike... With it Graphics, SFX, game style and everything it was a revolution in multiplayer games, not in just FPS games. Imagine a game that actually is a mod of another big game but more popular... (I'm not saying better.) Counter-Strike: Source is also has amazing graphics and SFX. Most of the players don't like CSS weapon system, because it wasn't easy actually. I think Counter-Strike was better but also Source was quite good. Even if the game style doesn't suit you, you need to admit in 2004 this game was revolution too. After many years later this little improved Global Offensive came. Basically there was nothing to tell. Not even avarage graphics, SFXs are old, not even changed. This is basically just the CSS with CS weapon style with rank and online matching system. Before this game came out there was Battlefield 3 look at that, it has amazing graphics, so much better than this crap game. When the real Counter-Strike came there wasn't a Call Of Duty game. Actually 3 years later the first Call Of Duty game released. Some new-born players will say "Graphics not important in online game, you need FPS." so what about gameplay? Gameplay is also the same, not improved it just get easier. Good graphic with good optimization is possible like in CSS. We need a real Counter-Strike. Without Nexon, Hidden Path or something else. Just VALVE need to do it.

This game is quite fun, and has a ton of things to do. You have casual and war games which suck in my opinion but for the competitive or casual there is a competitive mode with highly polished maps. For those looking to have a ton of fun and fool around there are hide and seek mods on the workshop, along with death run, murder, and many more game modes. The guns in the game are usually balanced and it is highly a skill base game. The skins and gloves in this game create an economy like no other game which can allow you to buy and sell skins and knifes while earning them in game.

One of my favorite games and a must have for steam players

Counter Strike: Global Offensive aka CS:GO is a game that is the first game in my Steam Library (second being UNDEFEATED - A superhero game). It was kind of boring as well as being fun at the same time. Here are the pros as well as the cons.

PROS - Great guns to use. (My favorites were the IMI Desert Eagle, Heckler & Koch G3SG/1, FN SSR, SIG-Sauer SIG556 and the AWP.) Fun gameplay. Easy possibility to get kills. (sometimes) Okay graphics. Perfect balancing between slow and fast gameplay. Good details. (Such as the movement of the player varying while holding a heavy weapons.) Good optimization. (I have an ASUS laptop with an i7 8th Gen processor and a kinda weak MX110 NVIDIA graphics card and It runs perfectly with a constant 60fps with some framedrops to the 30s or the 40s)

CONS - Awful rewards. (aka cosmetic skins.) Cheaters hunting the prey in some servers (A guy in a server some day ago killed me through everything with a rifle and everytime he kills me, He points at the ground.) Possibility to get killed. Terrible and boring Battle Royale mode. Lack of weapon understanding. Boring at some places.

Overall, The game is good despite having some issues I encountered. It's a great game for the weekend if you want to play competitive shooters or you are bored. I really recommend it if you like the genre. It's a bang for your buck, but without the buck.

Counterstrike Israel VS Hamas is a game about fighting both the set enemy and your own teammates and does this in a fair and balanced way. Skins also haven't effected the game in anyway and totally isn't a virtual economy that intends on making valve as much money as possible. also please nerf PP-Bison

That's just what it is.

If you're saying bad graphics, I say: Not everybody has a 10K PC and it adds nothing to gameplay If you're saying wacky shooting mechanics, I say: That's part of the fun. If you're saying toxic players, I say: Look at yourself (almost never getting toxic players, it happens, yes, but not nearly as often as in some other games. And it gets better the higher the rank)

There is no way around it. The game itsself (not including the hacker problem) is near perfect. It's absolutely balanced, it's smooth, the mechanics are not like in other shooters, the competitiveness of the game is on another level.

Personally I do not come across hackers alot, but I do think that there are quite afew cheaters around in the lower ranks, but I feel like Valves anti-cheat is finally catching up.

IDK how you can rate this anything below a 10, unless you have only played it for a couple hours and come across aton of cheaters.

Since f2p theres been many cheaters 80% bans are done by ow and vac is broken

Amazing Game. Good as the first one, but in some aspects even better.

And while Valve made some bad updates throughout the years it still is one of the best games ever made

It'll never top 1.6 but it's one of the best hard and competetive and skill-needed games of all time!

If anyone complains about Counter-Strike's graphics, let them know that not everyone has a high-end gaming PC and good gameplay is always a top priority. As for the shooting mechanics, I think the slightly quirky feel is part of what makes the game so fun. There can be some toxic players in the community at times, but I try to stay positive and remember that most people are just having a good time.

Counter-Strike is a unique game that pits you against both enemies and teammates in a fair and balanced way. In-game skins and virtual economies may seem like tricks for Valve's benefit, but they don't affect the actual gameplay itself. When Counter-Strike first came out in the 2000s, it was the complete game that changed the world of multiplayer gaming forever. This was his mod for another popular game, but it quickly became more popular than its predecessor due to its superior graphics, sound effects, and overall gameplay. Even Counter-Strike, the 2004 follow-up, had good visuals and audio, but some players didn't enjoy the new weapon system. This game wasn't published till after a while. The introduction of rankings and the online matchmaking systems is a lovely addition, even though the graphics and sound effects are not considerably better than Counter-Strike. While some new players would think that graphics are unimportant in online games, good graphics, when self-confident, can provide a far more enjoyable experience. In this aspect, I think that Counter-Strik serves as an example of a title with top-notch graphics and responsive gameplay. In conclusion, I believe Valve should continue to make changes to Counter-Strike as it deems fit. Whether it's adding new features or simply tweaking the graphics and sound effects, there's always room for improvement. But what makes Counter-Strike special at the end of the day is that it offers hours of exciting gameplay that keeps players coming back for more.

Multiplayer wise this game has a great premise and amazing game mechanics.

But I would stick to playing with boys if you are newer. It's a good game don't get me wrong just....not very easy to just say "hay. I'm gonna play some CSG0"

I've wasted 6000+ hours playing this game, spent 2k+ eur for skins and stuff related to this game. I would be still playing this and maybe would have 7k+ hours already, and maybe even more money spent, oh and the rating here would be 10/10,if not the one thing - LAG AND TERRIBLE OPTIMIZATION. Well this game has terrible community and alot of cheaters, and all of those problens Valve doesnt care to take care of. Instead they are creating new skins to buy that they could make morey money,and they just dont care about the game. For that, i really wish this game stopped making so much money for them, maybe then they would do something about all those problems or even would create new counter strike game, which it feels now impossible to expect for. But all problems aside, the main thing which killed the whole fun for me was terrible optimization. Ive wasted many hours to find how to fix this outdated old engine game for both my gaming laptop and stacionary pc. Just couldnt. I had fps drops, mouse acceleration problems, mouse sensitivity changing randomly problems, screentearing and stuttering (both computer screens are 144hz,but my laptop screen was more pleasant to look at but still i felt the stuttering anyway, actually 144hz made the stuttering even more obvious). The list of optimization problems is big, i probably would use all the words limit here. So i just stopped playing. Ive sold all my skins. And valve will not get a single penny from me anymore. Exception would be new counter strike or half life (non vr) game, and that's it. Valve wake up, fix your shit and keep it together. 10+ years passed and you are still ignoring all this and making your fans angry. At least could use some anticheat but i guess that would kill even more fps and the game would crash and etc. But faceit somehow works, but i have even less fps in it than in just official matchmaking, and thats just terrible.

Im going to miss the simplicity and classical looks and sounds of this game tho. I used to be an awper, sniper player in the team. Im going to miss those crazy awp flickshots i used to do back in the day, even with lags shitting the whole performance and experience.

A barebones FPS experience full of cheaters and hackers. I don't recommend it -- go play Battlefield instead, a game that actually has depth to it.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, also known as CSGO, is a popular first-person shooter game developed by Valve Corporation. Released in 2012, it quickly became a fan favorite and remains one of the most played games on Steam.

During CSGO gameplay, two teams-the Terrorists and the Counter-Terrorists-compete against one another in a variety of game situations. The objectives of each game choice vary, but generally speaking, the terrorists must set off a bomb or kidnap hostages, and the counter-terrorists must prevent them.

One of the key features of CSGO is its focus on tactical gameplay. Unlike other shooters, CSGO does not have health regeneration, meaning players must rely on their teammates to heal them. This encourages players to work together and communicate effectively, as well as emphasizing the importance of careful planning and strategy.

The game also has a steep learning curve and a high skill ceiling, rewarding players who put in the effort to grasp its mechanics. Weapon recoil, movement, and positioning are all important aspects of gameplay, and players who can perfect these abilities have a substantial advantage.

Professional players and teams compete in high-stakes tournaments for sizable prize pools in the CSGO's thriving esports industry. The game has a sizable player population and an active community thanks to its popularity in esports.

The game's microtransaction system, which enables players to buy cosmetic items and weapon skins, is one of its critiques. Despite the fact that these items have no impact on gaming, they have come under fire for giving the impression of gambling and encouraging addiction in some players.

The matchmaking system in CSGO has also come under fire for being unfair and vulnerable to hackers and cheaters. Despite Valve's attempts to enhance the system, many players continue to report matchmaking problems.

Despite these criticisms, CSGO remains a popular game with a devoted fan group. Its tactical gameplay, high skill ceiling, and E-sports scene make it a favorite among competitive players, while its community features and regular updates keep it popular.

From the last update, CSGO is free to play game (Original game about 300 THB). They made one of the most popular FPS games on Steam free in order to include the PRIME expansion, which enables players to play against no hackers, which is complete nonsense.

This only applies to prior CSGO owners. As we all know, prime was necessary for using the smartphone authenticator, so anyone could do it for free. They now charge for that and make the game free, so they didn't make anything free but simply increased the price to appreciate the game more.

CSGO is an all-around well-designed, entertaining shooter that provides an unique and satisfying gameplay experience. Serious players love it for its tactical gameplay, high skill ceiling, and competitive element, and its community features and regular updates help it keep a devoted following. Even though it has flaws, CSGO is still a timeless game that any fan of first-person shooters should play.

PROS

• Welcome to Counter-Strike, a world of Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists constantly at war against each other, where the one side sees bombing places as glorious and the other sees defusing bombs, rescuing hostages, and killing Terrorists as a joyous hobby, but both sides can tolerate losing allies, even if that means losing a game. Now introducing to you the newcomers, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a graphically refreshed sequel to the fan-favorite Counter-Strike: Source and the only game that turns terrorism and counter-terrorism into a tournament and has both sides trying to defeat each other not to further their cause, but as a sport. That's right, folks. Killing and bombing is a sport loved by Team Terrorists and thwarting their plans is loved by Team Counter-Terrorists. And killing each other is absolutely tolerated since both the teams do not really die anyway in the end and they all seem to be one part of a large welcoming family. The gameplay looks and sounds evidently serious, but it is all rather sportive.
• The basis of the game is to stop the enemy team from preventing one's objectives. Play hero or villain, rescue one of two hostages or destroy a site, but the objectives across the maps are consistent. At the start of every round, with every several-second delay, plan with your teammates and purchase guns, grenades, equipment, and bullet vests ridiculously expensive compared to real-life price tags, and always wonder like a Counter-Strike character, "Why are we always temporarily not allowed to carry out such an important mission?" When the delay is over, commence like a slow but cautious agent aware of all of his surroundings and using whatever tactic to outsmart the enemy or like a suicidal athlete hoping that the enemy is unfortunate enough to be doomed. Regardless, you only know what the enemy is doing when they are seen by a friendly player or you (as indicated on the radar-like minimap) or when they have completed the first step of carrying out an objective, and you and your team may need to change your strategy quickly. In the end, a hostage is either rescued or not, and the targeted site of the terrorists is either saved or destroyed, or more precisely, bombed but not actually damaged, as if structured for an endless number of rounds. Split up and surround, or closely cooperate, but you can always donate your teammates weapons and equipment they need with your surplus of money before or during a round. Fighting by your teammates or alone, you are always doing your side a service - unless you are helping the enemy by foolishly donating to them or constantly injuring your teammates. It is fun if the players on the server are competent and well-behaved, and it is just as fun playing with and against the artificial intelligence bots in place of the human players, which are cooperative and willing to respond to commands and calls for help, as well as give reports such as an enemy sighting and give commands themselves.
• In case that becomes old too quickly, find yourself in a variant of (Team) Deathmatch, which is gunning opponents for points, with kills with pistols rewarding more points and those with knives rewarding even more. Doing significant damage to enemies in that mode but having them finished off by someone else (a.k.a. assist kill) is also rewarding, albeit less so, and throughout a match, the game encourages players to kill enemies with certain weapons for bonus points each within a 30-second timespan. It stresses proficiency in the use of weapons to prove who is the winner, rather than who has the most powerful weapon. If that also becomes old, you can find yourself playing several variants of Classic Mode such as eliminating the enemy team with sniper rifles and low gravity, or you can play Arms Race, a "race" in which players start with a specified tier of submachine guns, rifles, shotguns, heavy weapons, pistols, and finally the notorious golden knife according to the player's rank and must complete the tier to win. In that mode, players must kill two enemies or one enemy with the most kills to climb up the tier to the next rank's corresponding weapon, but knifing a single enemy steals the enemy player's rank. Another mode is Co-op Strike, which is cooperative mode with all players fighting against terrorists and playing on an official or custom map with a scripted story being told as the players progress by completing a certain objective. That said, numerous stories can be told.
• As if all of that is not enough, like Counter-Strike: Source, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a fan of mods - maps, skins, custom game modes - but modding is taken to a higher level with regards to weapon skins. Make your golden, futuristic, rusty, or outright peculiar, and with the numerous maps made rampantly by the community and easily available and designed, play on anything imaginable, from restaurants and starships to underwater and Mars. Add any twist to your experience for your preference, and the result insanely works.

CONS

• The weapon mechanics, simply put, are absolutely wacky. Players can shoot through walls - e.g. wooden, glassy, and almost any material that is thin - and other players to kill their targets. They can even shoot through the head, the upper limbs and torso, the stomach, and the legs (as from above or under) to deal even more damage, all with a single bullet, and all of that is good. However, in terms of gun accuracy, recoil and character movements widen the reticle, meaning that the weapon of the carrier is rendered less accurate. I personally prefer that it be just the recoil "shaking" the screen and not affecting the reticle, but here is what is inexplicable: why does jumping widen the reticle (and thus the damage area within) for my shotguns, why is it that I aim and shoot just as accurately as I write dexterously with my left (non-dominant) hand when grabbing on ladders, and how does moving, jumping, and firing near-fast cause many weapons to have an accuracy swaying from 10° to as high as about 37° off the reticle and others of a similar type and weight to have a much better accuracy? Quite convenient and anti-sharpshooter if you ask me, and I even researched how accurate the weapons under these conditions are. Grenades are a nice aspect, but some of them are underpowered or underutilized, and with a low single-digit limit of grenades to carry to fight, the game seems to emphasize guns more than grenades and does not think much of giving players a decent handful of grenades in hand.
• For a game late in the series, CS:GO seems to be on the verge of running out of ideas to progress the franchise, as it could have done more than just add more game modes like Deathmatch, Arms Races, and derivatives of Classic Mode and equally rely on modded maps and game modes by the community more than their own creativity, as well as weapon skins, to really attract players of CS:S.
• While definitely graphically improved over CS:S, for a 2012 game still being curated as of the time of this review and even by 2012's standards, with lower-resolution textures and a slightly more polygonal look based on a 2004 engine, it demonstrates that maybe it is time to rely on newer technology. Additionally, the audio generally ensures the game's serious (yet sportive) tone, but some of it seems to make it sound cartoonish instead; e.g., why does shooting someone produce what sounds like a wooden crate of slime being sliced with an axe?

CONCLUSION: CS:GO does too little to truly give Counter-Strike: Source players a reason to shift, let alone the anti-sharpshooter mechanics, but it does enough for newcomers and to turn a serious situation in-game into an e-sports tournament.

SCORE: 80%

Counter Strike is a very good FPS game, and continues to outperform even the latest ones despite being released almost a decade ago. Unlike similar games such as Valorant, Overwatch etc, anyone can get the same enjoyment out of playing CS:GO, regardless of playing ability. For example, there are many game modes available for new players such as training and playing against bots, and you can play LAN games without being restricted to a minimum of 5/6 players. Additionally, there is the ability to play on custom maps created by the community, rather than being tied down to the default maps and the games eventually becoming quite generic.

However, CS:GO can sometimes feel quite repetitive, especially after playing for several hours - personally I think there should be more game modes available.

Overall CS:GO remains one of the best FPS games and I would recommend it.

Worst one on the whole Counter-Strike franchise. This game has a way more aggressive focusing on tricks, like hearing footsteps (cannot be done without headphones which is s little cheating) or shooting physics. Let me explain: there's no special skills needed to play well in Counter-Strike: Source with any type of weapon cause any weapon shoots well. But here the developers thought it's not interesting and they downgraded it so you need to re-learn or even re-understand it. That's stupid especially while nerds are playing with AWP only and there's no chance you could kill them. Here's how the matchmaking works, you always will get similar or lower level players in your team, but the opposite team will be stronger, why? There's no answer! Why VAC cannot spot wallhackers? No answer, again. But there's a lot of wallhackers buying clear accounts with prime to terrorize people. What about drop? No drop on non-prime accounts. And It's not random as everyone thinks! The game just decides to throw a case or a skin to you or not, but it's not random. I hope Hidden Path Entertainment will become bankrupt soon and Valve will never colaborate with similar studios to create games!

CSGO is not a fun game to play all the time once a while u will have a blast my problem is the updates and Anti-cheat also that recoil I think the maps are solid guns are pretty much all good if u know how to use them.