Half-Life - Counterstrike (PC) Reviews

Although the excellent Call of Duty series may well rule the roost now in terms of the online first person shooter genre, once upon a time, Counterstrike was the reigning King, and was absolutely supreme as the best online FPS on the market. As an addition to Half Life, it was cheap, and shared the game's clever graphical optimisation, meaning you ...  Read the complete review

As the name suggests, Counterstrike is an add on to the hugely succesful FPS Halflife. The game takes the basic mechanics of half life, changes them slightly and moves the experience online. There are two factions to choose from, Special Forces and Terrorists. The Terrorists must succesfully plant a bomb at a predesignated site on the ...  Read the complete review

HL: CS is overall a very fun game if you are into FPS (First Person Shooter) games in general. I've started playing back during Beta 6.0, so I've seen it evolve over the last few beta versions into the retail 1.5 and eventual 1.6. In a nutshell, CS is about two teams attempting to complete their objective on a map with whichever ...  Read the complete review

Counterstrike is a hugely popular multiplayer mod for the original Half Life game, that eschews the usual mindless multiplayer fragfest approach in gavour of a more tactical multiplayer experience. You play as part of one of two teams- the terrorists and the counter-terrorists, and the game takes place in rounds, which either side can win by ...  Read the complete review

What is Counter-strike? Counter-strike is one of the best competitive games ever made, as a professional counter-strike player i know what it is to be playing counter-strike. It is a very addictive game, i am already been playing this game for almost 7years, after 2 years of public game-servers, i started playing it professional and started ...  Read the complete review

Counter-Strike PC This game started of just as a mod that some people made to run off half-life, but ti caught Valves attention and ever since then they have taken it on aboard as part of the game and the new generations of half-life that came out would have it as a mod on the actual game. The game is completely internet ...  Read the complete review

This is a great first-person-shooter, but there a few things that prevent it from getting a perfect score. You think that with all the cons that this game will suck, but you are wrong. The pros will make you overlook its flaws. Pros: +pistols, machine guns, sniper rifles, riot shield +blood splashes when you're hit ...  Read the complete review

A living legend. - Advantages: High addiction level, The first realy succesfull multiplayer based game, Great teamwork - Disadvantages: Poor graphics, Lack or poor support from Valve

The is a review of Counter-strike itself, not a specific retail product. And with that... In the dark, swirling sea of multi-player mania swims a goliath. This man-eating leviathan lurks at the depths of imagination and skill, luring hapless gamers to their certain demise with its innocuous title, Counter-strike. "Ooh, another ...  Read the complete review

Counterstrike INTRODUCTION I have been playing counterstrike now for about 2 yrs, and enjoy it very much. You can interact with other players as you play which I will talk about later. Here is more information on this game. ABOUT COUNTERSTRIKE Counterstrike is an online modification of the famous game halflife. ...  Read the complete review

this is instant fun - Advantages: Quick to learn, Easy to play, Make Friends - Disadvantages: Old Graphics, Limited Weapons

everyone want too get good at counter-strike right? well ive played the game for over 3 years now, and i can only say that too get good at the game, you need a good mouse, and quite good hardware and dedication. then you need aim, how do you get "aim"? playing alot gives you aim, try playing on the many aim_maps ...  Read the complete review

Whichever way you look at it, counter-strike is the dominant multiplayer PC game today. Despite newer games such as Battlefield 1942 sparking really strong interest and many players, there are more than 10 times as many people playing counter-strike online as any other game (source: PC gamer). There are more people playing counter-strike online ...  Read the complete review

Counterstrike The best game ever - Advantages: Fast Quick, Builts reaction time and confidence, Fun - Disadvantages: None, nope , nothing

General/Summary: When I first downloaded the game I thought excellent, couldn't put the mouse down because the campaigns were superb and the FMV's at the end of each campaign were incredible (they were half the reason I couldn't stop playing). After the campaigns I just lost interest. However I shall purchase the game to play online ...  Read the complete review

Warning this game is addictive Addictive? How can a computer game be addictive? Well I never thought they could either... That was until I started regularly playing 5 hours + a day on CS. Thousands of people worldwide play CS (Counter-Strike) every day. CS is the main modification for Half-Life and is available on most CS ...  Read the complete review

Yes I'm sure you've heard this is the best shoot um up in current circulation. This is the funnest game I have ever played. I'm now in my final year at school. I have played this game in all my spare moments. The network version is the option in my views. It's brilliant you run about beating the s**t into Counter-terrorist or ...  Read the complete review

Considering that there is about a 100 people that have already written their oppinions on the topic of CS tactics, I will only give you some things that many forgot to mention. Shoot'em'all!!!! The best way to kill people in this is shoot them (duh!!), but many forget about simple rules of CS that make our lives much ...  Read the complete review

We'll if you were thinking of buying counter-strike nowadays, I suggest you read this first. I wouldn’t fully recommend to a 56k user to go out and buy cs anymore due to the updates he or she would have to download before they could actually play the game. The update from the box version of cs to 1.1 is 70 odd megs, then another 70 to ...  Read the complete review

Ok so they have got it right with a Multiplayer game First Person shooter anyone who plays PC games is usually judged on there ability to frag and defuse in a bout of Counterstrike... But the fact is will people still love the Hostage situations and Counter Warfare in version 2? I personally think that the reason Half-life ...  Read the complete review