Half-Life: Counterstrike (PC)

Cheats Faq: Counter-Strike is a pretty old add-on to Sierra’s Half-Life, so I am not going to bother reviewing it. Suffice it to say that it’s the best online action game ever released. This may change soon, with the release of World War II Online, as WWII online takes team playing to levels undreamed of before. Nevertheless, if WWII online keeps me locked up in a room for months like CS did when I first got addicted to it, than I need to make some ...
...The following article will go through various methods of cheating in half-life, and how to spot cheaters. There isn’t much you can do against cheaters, but I will try going into that as well. If you haven’t played CS more than 50 times, than read no further as this piece will make no sense to you whatsoever. And don’t leave me a whiney butt cheesy comment saying ‘this is off-topic’ because my article title was quite self-explanatory. Debunking the ...

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• INTRODUCTION • Counter-Strike (CS version 1.6) is an add-on (mod) to Half-Life. This first-person shooter (fps) is probably one of the most popular online multi-player game at the moment. The game has so many settings some of which can be changed in the console. There are two teams - Counter-Terrorist (CT) and Terrorists (T), there are many different levels (known as maps) you're able to play on. The servers on which you play allow 32 players ...
...team to win until you play again which can be annoying. Teams win by either completing the objective (usually defending / bombing the bombsite) or killing all of the other team. You have a variety of weapons and items that you're able to buy, you start off with $800 and the more your team wins, the more you kill the more money you receive. The game does require a lot of skill to become good at it, it can take years to become skilled at the game. ...

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As a break from my usual travel and movie opinions I've decided to write an opinion on something I've recently discovered and to which I am slowly becoming increasingly addicted. This is where cries of geek and loser fill the air as I admit I'm a closet (well not now I guess) Counter Strike fanatic, in my defence however the hours I've wiled away running, shooting, jumping, killing and cursing have all been to avoid the lure of one of the many 24 ...
...So what is it? -------------- Counter Strike for those that are unaware is a spin-off of the previous 'greatest game of all time' plaudit winning Half-Life. Half Life took the gaming world by storm as the ultimate in First Person Shoot em ups (FPS) as the combination of sublime graphics and visual effects, incredible playability backed up with a compelling storyline saw it become the ultimate single player FPS. The only problem was that there were ...

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Blowing S**t Up Part Three and a Bit, Afternoon Tea With A Spot Of Death !! Because it was requested and even though I had already written an op on Half-Life Counterstrike I decided that I would in fact edit the existing op and make it a lot better than it was cos before it was just sucky pants compared to my ops now. Anyone who has played Half-Life, Half-Life Opposing Force or Half-Life Blue Shift will already be well aware of Half-Life Counterstrike. ...
...chances are you will have heard of Half-Life Counterstrike and with good reason. When Half-Life first got released the nice people at Valve and Sierra decided that they would give us a little extra for our money. At the time I don’t think that even they ever considered just how big Counterstrike would become dwarfing even the game that it came from in the first place. Before I carry on with the op there are a couple of things I would like to reiterate ...

gabrielangeles 06.11.2002 (02.12.2002) · Read full review
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Ok, So before I start ranting and raving about this game, I’ll start by saying that when I played it, it was on a top of the line PC with all the trimmings and via an ADSL line (for those of you who aren’t nerdy like moi, this is basically the one of the fastest connections to the internet). Anywho I have no doubt that this did have a massive influence on my enjoyment of the game. However I guess what I’m trying to do is review ...
...be played. That is at the best speed with the best hardware running it. Right, now that I’ve gotten that out of the way I shall begin… Once upon a time there was a Little game Called Half-life. And Half-life grew up to be one of the most popular ‘first person shooter’s’(FPS) on the PC at the time, with a genuinely engaging plot line and fantastic gameplay. Soon after an add on was created for the fore mentioned Half-life ...

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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. In order to play counterstrike you will need to purchase the game halflife, for the cd key you will need. You can either purchase Counterstrike or ...
...you will need all the updates too for both games. Counterstrike is a teamwork game, the game is more enjoyable if you work as a team and will also give your team a better chance of making your objective a success. Talk to your team mates by hitting the team say key, in which you will have to bind to a key in your keyboard controls, if you wanting to talk to your opponents then set up a key to bind to say, this will allow you to talk with every player ...

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Lets face it. The gaming industry is expanding at an unforseen rate. If PC's continue to get better, and developers continue to pump out great games, the PC might just take over the world (like it hasn't already). I am what is considered a "seasoned Counter-Strike" player. I have been playing for around two years now, and have only now just decided to write a review. Counter-Strike is a mature game, and should only be played by oldier gamers. Counter-Strike ...
...game is focused around fictional locations being taken over by terrorists. The Counter-Terrorists then have to go in and eradicate the terrorists. The story, while un-imaginative, keeps you wanting more and more. Every map that Counter-Strike has to offer is proffesionaly made, usually by experienced 3rd party "level designers". Only the best maps are included into the Counter-Strike updates. Some of the greatest maps are also some of the simplist ...

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Counter-Strike or 'CS' as it's called by fans is the most popular multi-player game around! There are 2 versions of the game. The first is the MOD version. This version can be downloaded free from the net, but this version requires that you have Half-Life installed to play. The second version is the retail version. This version can be brought from shops and it's standalone, which means Half-Life is not needed to play. Both versions are the same so ...
...game of CS has two teams, the terriosts and the counter-terriosts. Both teams have different weapons and mission goals. The best feature of the game is the choice of weapons you can have. There are a wide-range of sub-machine guns, sniper rifles etc. All of the weapons are great fun to use. The guns also have realistic recoil which means that firing a machine gun on full auto will probably do nothing but get you killed, firing in busts in the key ...

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I think every gamer on the face of the planet knows what "Half-Life" is. Right? If not, Yoohoo! Person under that rock!? You should DEFINITELY be reading this!! Half-Life has to be one of the biggest-selling, most successful, and best PC games ever. So, really, it's only fitting that it should have one of the biggest, most successful and best anti-terrorist modifications ever made for it. Counter-strike was originally created by "Gooseman", it's ...
...such as defuse/plant a bomb, rescue/keep hostages, or protect/assasinate a VIP with teams played entirely online, or with bots downloaded seperately. It went through various beta stages, being tested, tweaked, gradually working it's way up. And then, when Beta 7.1 hit, something happened. Word of this mod got out, and a community exploded from a modification which hadn't even hit it's finalised stages. So there must be SOMETHING a bit special about ...

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I first played Counter-strike a few years ago, in one of its’ very early guises – at the time, it could only have been around for a few months, and so is barely recognisable from the version which has just gone to a 1.0 final release. I liked it, but with the amount of team killers on the playable servers I could find at that time, I decided to play the less realistic, but easier, and more fun TFC. For those of you who are unaware of ...
...Half-Life engine. This means you need the original Half-Life in order to play. It involves two teams of players – terrorists and counter-terrorists battling it out over a series of maps and game types. The games fall into three different types – hostage rescue, bombing and protect the VIP. Hostage rescue involves the counter-terrorists (CT’s) attempting to rescue as many scientists as they can from a terrorist stronghold. Bombing ...

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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 either killing everyone on the opposing team, by rescuing all the NPC (non player character) hostages (in ...
...and detonating a bomb in a specific location (in the case of the terrorists). Should you get killed then you have to sit and wait patiently for the round to end before you can play again, which makes for a considerably more tense and exciting gaming experience. You wont get far by just wandering around blasting away aimlessly either, as players move at realistically slow speeds and can only take a couple of hits before keeling over, and there's no ...

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...of the popular online mod Half-Life: Counterstrike is something of a paradox. On the one hand, there's nothing in this box that you couldn't download for free off the Internet; folks have been playing Counterstrike for months before the release of this latest package. Presumably, then, the Counterstrike pack is intended for purchase by those who lack the high-speed Internet connection to download the 100 MB Counterstrike file. On the other hand, ...
...pay for so much fun. Half-Life: Counterstrike is great fun; if ever a mod deserved standalone release, this is the one. The Counterstrike mod is a first-person shooter that places you on one of two teams: terrorist and counter-terrorist. The game has several different goal-oriented mission structures. The default is a hostage rescue mission, where counterterrorists must find four hostages in enemy territory and escort them to a predefined rescue ...

JamieMckeen 13.02.2001 · Read full review
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Well if you are on the internet I can't see a reason for you not to be playing Counter-Strike. It is a modification of the Half-Life engine and is free to download or you can buy it as a boxed game from stores. The basics of the game are that there are two teams; the terrorists (sometimes referred to by other players as the Ts), and the counter-terrorists (sometimes referred to by other players as the CTs). You have a choice of which side you want ...
...is a choice of four different costumes. The aim of the game is to complete your mission objectives. As a CT, this can be either rescuing the hostages, getting the VIP to the rescue point safely, or preventing the Ts from completing their mission. When you are a T you will either be planting the bomb or stopping the CTs. This all takes place from an excellent 3D viewpoint where you run around in first-person using (usually) a mouse and keyboard. ...

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This is my first opinion on Counter-Strike and I would like it to be my best so here goes. Counter-strike is a modification for the best game ever to be released that game is the mighty Half-life. The only thing, which the 2 games have in common, is that they use the same graphics engine. Counter-strike is what is called a FPS or first person shooter. These are were you can straft (run from side to side) run backwards and forwards and look and ...
...about? In counter-strike there are 2 factions, there is the counter-terrorists and the terrorists. Each as there own pacific job in each of the 4 types of mission. Hostage Rescue Counter-terrorists must rescue the hostages in the time limit. Terrorists must prevent hostage rescue. Bomb Defuse Counter-Terrorists must prevent the bomb going off when planted. Terrorists must plant the bomb then protect it. Escape Counter-terrorists must kill ...

stoney_chris 18.06.2001 · Read full review
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Counter-Strike is one of the biggest multi-player internet games ever, and it’s free. Servers for this game are constantly full and here in the UK we have about 7500 servers running through WON (World Opponent Network) alone. So what makes this game so addictive? How can it possibly be free? How do you get hold of it? Well firstly you must know that Counter-Strike is a MOD, a MOD simply means a modification of an original game. In Counter-Strikes ...
...requires that you have Half-Life on your computer to play the game. This is because Counter-Strike uses the Half-Life engine. If you have ever played Star Trek Elite Force you will probably know that it uses the Quake III engine. It’s basically the way the graphics are displayed and the way the game is generally run. The reason the game is free is because it was created as a MOD by a non-profit making small organisation. Little did they know ...

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