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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.
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.
Among popular Counter-Strike maps are levels listed by Valve as "Active Duty." Such maps are considered the most balanced and competitive by Valve and are used in nearly all competitive Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments. [1] The list of Active Duty maps changes occasionally, normally by replacing just one map at a time.
A screenshot of Inferno in Counter-Strike 2, demonstrating the graphical enhancements made to the map. During the Source 2 update for Global Offensive (known as Counter-Strike 2), Several Counter-Strike maps were given upgrades to utilize the features of Source 2.
Set outside and inside the premises of a nuclear power plant as counter-terrorists attempt to repel a devastating attack, it was first released in November 1999 for the original Counter-Strike. It received a significant redesign in 2016 for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as part of the "Operation Wildfire" update, which added more realistic ...
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.
MLG Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship: Columbus, also referred to as MLG Columbus 2016 [1] was the eighth Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Major Championship held by Major League Gaming (MLG) throughout March 29 to April 3, 2016, in the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, United States. [2]
The Counter-Strike series has over 20 years of competitive history beginning with the original Counter-Strike.Tournaments for early versions of the game have been hosted since 2000, but the first prestigious international tournament was hosted in Dallas, Texas at the 2001 Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Winter Championship, won by the Swedish team Ninjas in Pyjamas.