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Global Offensive, like prior games in the Counter-Strike series, is an objective-based, multiplayer first-person shooter.Two opposing teams, the Terrorists and the Counter-Terrorists, compete in game modes to repeatedly complete objectives, such as securing a location to plant or defuse a bomb and rescuing or capturing hostages.
The map was first released in March 2001 for the original Counter-Strike game and is present in all games in the series. [17] Apart from graphical updates, it underwent minimal changes after its initial release, before receiving a significant visual revision in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in October 2017. [18]
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was the fourth release in the main, Valve-developed Counter-Strike series in 2012. Much like Counter-Strike: Source the game runs on the Source engine. It was available for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux, as well as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, and is backwards compatible on the Xbox One console.
The company continued to release multiplayer games with the launches of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, [6] both of which have large esports communities fostered by Valve. [8] During the 2010s, Valve began focusing on supporting their established multiplayer games with regular content updates.
It debuted as the successor to GoldSrc in 2004 with the releases of Half-Life: Source, Counter-Strike: Source, and Half-Life 2. Valve used Source in many of their games in the following years, including Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and the Portal and Left 4 Dead franchises.
The objective of the game is same to that of the Counter-Strike series; each round is won by either detonating a bomb or by eliminating all members of the enemy team. [30] The mod prompted strong controversy in the United Kingdom; Dattatec's website was targeted by British hackers on March 27, 2013. [30]
Counter-Strike – A team-based tactical first-person shooter game involving rounds of combat between two teams, counter-terrorists and terrorists. Counter-Strike was later released commercially by Valve as a standalone game. Deathmatch Classic – A free, official Half-Life mod by Valve that updates the multiplayer gameplay from id Software's ...
Counter-Strike 2 is a 2023 free-to-play tactical first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve.It is the fifth entry in the Counter-Strike series, developed as an updated version of the previous entry, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012).