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Counter Strike – more than just a killer game?
In Counter-Strike is a price to win the champion of the world, in the meantime, money of half a Million dollars. What makes the game for many years, maybe the best fps in the world?
As the game developers Minh Le and Jess Cliffe in 1999, only a modification for the game Half-Life wanted to develop, was you not aware of the fact that they created just one of the most successful eSports title in the coming years. Fast Counter Strike became the most popular Mod of the game story. The software company, Valve saw the potential and released it a year later as a standalone game. It is developments such as Counter Strike 1.6, Counter Strike Source and the latest Version – Counter Strike: Global Offensive followed. The recipe for success is found quickly: Counter Strike is a turn-based tactical masterpiece and its Community is very close.
Counter Strike is more than just shoot
Counter Strike is, at first glance, a first person Shooter like any other. The player acts in the Ego-perspective and shoots with guns on his opponents. Five Counter-terrorists and five terrorists fight on different maps against each other.
The most well-known Ego-Shooter of the world: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
It is not the aim, however, to shoot the opposing Team, but to get in the first line and the round point. And this one gets depending on the card through the Defuse a bomb or rescue hostages. Two things are hugely important as tactics and Teamplay. The use of various grenades, distraction, or the game with the lap time of two minutes the developed Counter Strike over the years from a simple Ego-Shooter to a tactical Shooter, and perfect eSports title.
The software company, Valve also in the case of his Play a special importance to the cooperation with the Community. With the game platform, Steam, developed in 2003, is the perfect place for all gamers. Particularly the game Counter Strike benefits from the platform. Many maps and Skins for weapons are designed by players and can be the entire Community is presented. The developers take these suggestions and integrate them partly into the game. A collaboration that has borne fruit.
Meanwhile, a magnet for Spectators
Teams such as “Ninjas in Pyjamas” train today, on a high professional level
At the Events, such as the ESL One Cologne will be celebrated by the players as pop stars. “I’ve been playing for many years, Counter Strike. And it makes me still a lot of fun. The game lives from the Community and Events like this,” explained Counter-Strike-Fan Eike Bührmann in the Lanxess Arena. But why are there so many people watch others Play instead of playing yourself? The answer is programmed in the game itself, which is so dynamic and flexible that it allows big Stars, which could stretch the limits of the game. The game trains, Tricks and Map knowledge to use, to put the audience in awe – but also to Discuss and seek to Emulate, stimulate. “The Fans are the reason why I play Counter-Strike,” explains Karrigan of Astralis. “If you would play Counter Strike, only in a Studio, it would make no sense. The Fans make Counter-Strike Events, only indescribable.”
Counter Strike is no longer just a computer game, it is Sport on a big stage. The scene now consists of several million players, the Events will be bigger and the game continues to evolve every week. “For me, it is a dream to earn as a Counter-Strike Pro my money. Even as a child, I wanted to Counter-Strike-Pro, and I’ve done it, makes me proud,” says Markeloff, player of FlipSide Tactitcs. The tactical Shooter, has taken a development that is rare in a computer game.
No Limits
The games Events are accompanied, as in other sports commentators
With all the praise on the game, although there are also dark sides, such as a non-controlled market, however, this is also another proof of how dynamic the Counter-Strike market is growing.
The bad reputation the game had, for years, it seems to just dissolve. Counter Strike is no longer a game in Public is just a killer. What dimensions will achieve this 17-year-old game is difficult to predict. The last few years have certainly shown that you have to expect a lot.