Counter-Strike 1: Anthology (PC)

Advantages: challenging and involving full of stuff to do, cheap too
Disadvantages: bit dated

Just looking around the local game shop bit short on cash so looked at the cheap pc games and found this, read about it on the back and thought why not give it a go. couldn't be to bad could it? Thankfully its not bad instead its great and on the cheap makes it even better :) Counter strike the game is a spin off of one of the best games ever created (half-life) using the same graphics but totally diffient game all together. This game has become ...
...shooters to a wide audience and with a good guy vs bad guy theme there was a little something for most reasonable gamers to get involved with. Basicaly the main game pits you on a map teamed up either with the terrorists or the anti-terrorists. depending on which side you choose your objective is diffrent e.g anti terrorists try to rescue hostages whilst the terrorists prevent them or what tends to happen is if all your team are dead you lose anyway ... Read review

Advantages: Addictive, fun and will give you useful combat knowledge in the event of conscription
Disadvantages: You may waste away your life playing this game

I am only reviewing the game Counter Strike itself, as this is the only game in the anthology worth playing in my opinion. Also included in this is Condition Zero, which is essentially Counter Strike with cosmetically altered maps and a slightly different playing style. It does include a single player, which is fun the first time you do it, but fails to give you any satisfaction if repeated more than once. Definitly worth buying the anthology for ...
...Counter Strike is essentially a terrorist/counter terrorist first person shooter based on the half-life 1 engine. It involves two teams who have opposing objections, either protection or rescuing of hostages or defusal or explosion of a bomb. These objectives are repeated throughout the game, but seem rather pointless at times, with terrorists trying to blow up a baron bombsite with nothing but a few measly boxes occupying it. The hostages you encounter ... Read review