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Counter-Strike (also known as Half-Life: Counter-Strike or Counter-Strike 1.6) [5] is a tactical first-person shooter game developed by Valve.It was initially developed and released as a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess Cliffe in 1999, before Le and Cliffe were hired and the game's intellectual property acquired.
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.
Different game modes have separate competitive map pools. While many popular levels are designed by Valve Corporation, some community-created maps are also rotated in and may become long-term additions to the competitive scene. Among popular Counter-Strike maps are levels listed by Valve as "Active Duty
The final significant update to the original Counter-Strike game was version 1.6 in 2003, and so the game became known as Counter-Strike 1.6 (CS 1.6). 2001 Winter CPL Counter-Strike tournament. In 2002, the World Cyber Games became the next tournament to host competitive Counter-Strike, followed by the Electronic Sports World Cup in 2003.
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.
"Dust II", also known by its filename de_dust2, is a video game map featured in the first-person shooter series Counter-Strike. Dust II is the successor to "Dust", another Counter-Strike map, and was developed by David Johnston before the official release of the original Counter-Strike game. It was designed with the aims of simplicity and ...
Counter-Strike surfing is a modded game mode based on the Counter-Strike series of first-person shooter video games. Consisting of custom-created obstacle course levels known as surf maps, players make use of a physics engine glitch to float along inclined planes while propelling themselves forward at high speeds in a manner resembling surfing .
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Valve. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series . The first game in the series, Counter-Strike 1.6 , was officially released in 2000 and competitive play began soon after.