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Counter-Strike is a action, fps and multiplayer game
developed and published by Valve.
Released on November 01st 2000 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 8 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.
It has received 250,245 reviews of which 243,818 were positive and 6,427 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.6 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.
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Windows
Minimum: 500 mhz processor, 96mb ram, 16mb video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection
Recommended: 800 mhz processor, 128mb ram, 32mb+ video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection
MacOS
Minimum: OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3, 1GB RAM, 4GB Hard Drive Space,NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 or higher Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection
Linux
Minimum: Linux Ubuntu 12.04, Dual-core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz, 1GB Memory, nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeaon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1, 4GB Hard Drive Space, OpenAL Compatible Sound Card
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Continue reading if you want to get "Learned" on some Counter-Strike history. When Valve made the fatal decision to replace CS:GO with CS2, it exposed a years-long movement away from making great games for the players. You see, Valve had been working on this Source 2 engine for years. And now that they finally "Finished" it, they needed a game to test it out on, to see if the playerbase would react positively. For this they chose the age-old classic CS:GO. To Valve, CS:GO had proven itself to be a hardy and everlasting popular game. It would make a great candidate, they thought. But for some horrendous reason they chose to REPLACE CS:GO with CS2, rendering online play in the former completely impossible. But why would they do this? This decision stems back to around a year before CS2 came into existence. It goes back to a terrible company called Blizzard. They had this game called Overwatch which was a tremendous success. In 2022 they put out Overwatch 2, which would REPLACE the first Overwatch. To my knowledge this is the first major game to have this done to it. Overwatch 2 was also one of the first games, to my knowledge, put out by a major studio to have initial Overwhelmingly Negative reviews on Steam. But even with this backlash, people couldn't put their money where their mouth was and still continued on playing Overwatch 2. It's like Call of Duty syndrome. People complain year-in and year-out that each new Call of Duty is basically the same game (which it is). Yet they gladly plunk down 7 Hamiltons a year to play it, 14 if they play on Xbox. The following year, 2023, Valve knew the time was right and followed in Blizzard's footsteps. They made the decision to replace CS:GO with CS2. First off we need to establish why Valve saw it necessary to update the game to Source 2 in general. They did this because A: they had already been working on Source 2 for years and B: they wanted to pump new life into CS:GO. Hopefully they won't do this with TF2 because that game has nothing wrong with it in terms of the engine it runs on. Anyways, that's the reason they moved it to Source 2. But why replace the game?? The reason they replaced it stems from the Item Economy that CS:GO had. That's right. Valve once and for all dispelled all rumours to the contrary. They place the item collectors and the skin hunters over the actual players of the game. They had to replace the game due to the difficulty and uncertainty of appID inventory migration. Would our great community of skin hunters and gamblers appreciate having their items stuck in an old installment of the series, or worse, deleted due to a potential unforeseen migration bug??? Of course not, so we must replace the game. All of the people, like me, that enjoyed the old CS:GO system of gameplay are now forever condemned to offline or community servers. Me, I haven't booted up CS2 ever. And I won't because I despise what Valve did to their greatest game. All to keep the cash cow running. So I vow never to play the game again and move on. But hundreds of hours of CS:GO sort of gives you this itch that needs to be scratched every so often. At first I can ignore it but eventually I have a deep desire to play CS:GO. But I can't! So next I try the ways of the old school. I give CS:S another shot and, as evidenced in my review for that game, it still stands up as a masterpiece of FPS games. Best part too is that you can still play it! And then I try the original Counter-Strike, the game which this review is for. And lo and behold it too stands up as a masterpiece of the FPS genre, only this game has infinitely more classic appeal than even CS:S. Counter-Strike somehow knows exactly when and where to reward you for your efforts, and it makes you want to play more even when you're getting owned. Each time you die, you think you know exactly how to win next time and you want to try again. Even if you get owned again, you still think this until one day you figure out how and you become Skilled. This game comes from a bygone era in software and video game development. By todays "Standards" this game would be blasted. Graphics aren't good enough! No skin customization! No ranking system! This simplicity is what I absolutely love about this game. Back in the 90's, when this game was being created as a mod offshoot of Half-Life, this kind of thing absolutely blew people away. How the hell could a computer do this? - people would think. And to think it was made and conceived by such a small group of people. To captivate the genius minds of the gaming public today, at least a medium-sized gaming studio is required, with some rare exceptions. And to captivate the majority of gamers, a Triple A studio is needed. Back when Counter-Strike came out, a few college students could make a game that ruled the Internet. This kind of thing simply does not happen anymore. Innovation in gaming is dead. Now we have companies focusing on hyper-realism and replacing amazing video games with subpar imitations, all to keep a skin economy running. There will be no more Dooms or Counter-Strikes anymore. By this I mean games that revolutionize genres. It simply won't happen. The almighty Dollar has taken over the world of video game development and companies realize it is more profitable to make stupid loot boxes than it is to make a great game. This is because the average gamer has the brain of a chimpanzee, and will drool at fancy golden guns and rare Legendary outfits, and will stop at nothing to get them, even wasting away their savings opening random loot boxes. It disgusts me and it should disgust you. This is why I will heap as much praise as I can onto a game like Counter-Strike. There are no loot boxes. There are no skins, no item economy. There is nothing in this game that makes Valve money with the sole exception of you buying it. And this means that Valve isn't going to tamper with the game and ruin it for eternity, so you get to enjoy the game until the very last community server shuts down. And that is exactly what I plan to do, because Counter-Strike is a relic of a game. Amendment: Today, against my best judgment, I tried Counter-Strike 2, playing a competitive game of Nuke. And yes, it is every bit as bad as I said it would be. 2nd Amendment: I have played more Counter-Strike 2, and while it is not a bad FPS game, it still remains a subpar imitation of CS:GO. If you're like me and you remember the game the way it was years ago, you will be disappointed. Maybe not enough to put the game down but disappointed nonetheless. The points outlined in this review still stand 100% true.
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Playing this game in 4:3 and joining a server hosting an edited version of Dust with screenshots from porn videos plastered everywhere is the true CS experience. I don't even care that I'm bad at the game. You get to look at lesbian porn sometimes.
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You didn’t just play CS 1.6. You lived it. You learned about teamwork, betrayal, and how to alt-tab faster than your teacher could walk by in the computer lab. Final Verdict: CS 1.6 isn’t just a game. It’s a rite of passage. A pixelated piece of history where boys became men, girls became headshot machines, and everyone teabagged like it meant something. Long live the legend.
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I remember the first time I played Counter-Strike. It was the year 2000. I was six years old — too young to understand strategy, too young to understand competition — but somehow just the right age to fall in love with chaos. That day, my cousin showed me a dusty PC in a smoky internet café. A CRT monitor flickered. A mouse too big for my hand. But it wasn’t just a game. It was my first battle. He loaded up de_dust, and suddenly, the world outside — the noise, the crowds, the slow passage of real life — faded into nothing. There were no big cutscenes, no heroes. Just me, a Desert Eagle, and an objective I barely understood. I wasn’t just playing. I was fighting. And then came the countless hours. Headphones crackling with radio commands. My heart racing with every corner I peeked. Maps that became burned into my brain — the feel of them, not just the look. I didn’t need tutorials. We learned by losing. By fumbling flashbangs and mistiming bomb plants. By laughing at every terrible mistake and swearing we’d get it right next time. Sometimes my father would peek into the room, watching me shout at a screen filled with pixelated soldiers. He didn’t understand why I cared so much about a digital bomb ticking down. But he let me have that world. A place where mistakes had a "restart" button. Where battles could be won with practice, not just luck. Now, two decades later, I still come back. The graphics are ancient. The servers mostly abandoned. The hitboxes feel like ghosts compared to what games are now. But something inside Counter-Strike still breathes. Every footstep on old concrete. Every panicked spray of bullets. Every dusty corridor, whispering memories from a time when everything felt new and impossible and alive. Counter-Strike isn’t just a shooter. It’s a fossil from a younger Earth. It’s a monument to when games weren’t about battle passes or daily challenges— just pure, raw, imperfect competition. And as I buy armor and a defusal kit one more time, as I run through the same broken hallways I knew before I even knew what nostalgia was, I remain there. Hand on the mouse... And a tear I cannot quite name— whether it’s loss, or gratitude.
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My first game on 1.6 servers >join a russian server as thats the one with best ping >join CT > hear alot of "cyka" "blyat" >dont speak as i cant speak russian >one of the admins call out my name and ask why I dont speak > open google translate >by the time i started to say anything I got kicked >10/10
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Counter-Strike is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.
Counter-Strike is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 8.19€ on Steam.
Counter-Strike received 243,818 positive votes out of a total of 250,245 achieving an impressive rating of 9.63.
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Counter-Strike was developed and published by Valve.
Counter-Strike is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Counter-Strike is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Counter-Strike is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Counter-Strike is a multi-player game.
Counter-Strike features PvP mode where you can test your skills against other players.
Counter-Strike does not currently offer any DLC.
Counter-Strike does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Counter-Strike does not support Steam Remote Play.
Counter-Strike is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Counter-Strike.
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7,323
Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Release
01 Nov 2000
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