Counter Strike

Counter-Strike has been a huge part of PC gaming for over a decade now. It first rose to prominence as a mod for Valve classic Half-Life and has since been released as a standalone game on Steam, then as Counter-Strike: Source. The past few weeks (so long as you’re not a PS3 player in the EU) has seen the long-awaited publication of the latest game in the franchise: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. If you’ve been playing this franchise for a long time, there are parts of Global Offensive that you’ll definitely recognise. Some people call it lazy design – those people don’t appreciate quite how attached the core Counter-Strike community are to the staples of the series, however. Take away Dust, impossibly annoying headshots with Desert Eagles from across the map and add in down-the-sights aiming and you’ve got yourself a game the most fervent fans just wouldn’t be interested in.