Why Counter-Strike is one of the greatest games ever made

GamesRadar - Examine each version of Counter-Strike and you'll find that not a whole lot has changed since the game's inception as a mod for Half-Life back in 2000. Sure, things like hit boxes, recoil, and aesthetics vary between 1.6, Source, and Global Offensive--but the core, minimalistic gunplay remains intact. And that's one of the beautiful things about this hardcore, competitive shooter: It hasn't changed much in over a decade because it doesn't need to, making it one of our top 100 games of all time.

[Vlaitor]

As a hole, yes CS is probably one of the most influential game of the past decade. It has lost it's touch however, the competitive community isn't as strong and the new market aims for less skilled required games. I think the PC gaming community would not be as tight without this kind of game.

[ATi_Elite]

Counter Strike is the Granddaddy of ALL First Person Shooters!

(yeh I know Quake and Unreal came out first and are great competitive games played by PRO Gamers but CS did so much more for the FPS genre)

It's the game that really put competitive online Gaming on the map! Battlefield, Call Of Duty, Halo, etc. all owe it to CS and what it brought to the Gamers and industry as a whole.

Hell at any time you can always find 50K Gamers playing CS 1.6 or CS:S online and the game is 13 years old! (Name a game with this large a community that is over 13 years old....)

So yeh i would put CS in my "Greatest Games ever" list cause it's the shooter that really brought so many Gamers together Online and ALL the "Modern Warfare" shooters of today and hell even "Futuristic Shooters" have CS to thank!

[Lovable]

"As a hole" wth?

[brettyd]

SOCOM > Counter Strike

[chasegarcia]

Counter Strike is not even near the legendary......SOCOM 2.

[floetry101]

Rofl, where did these Socom fanboys come from? Anyone who legitimately thinks Socom had the same impact on the online shooter that Counter Strike did is grasping at straws.

[iamgoatman]

Wondered that myself, could just be the same person.

[Animal Mutha 76]

CS 1.6 on assault gave me some of my best ever pc gaming moments with my mates. And then on CCS jumping over the wall on compound to see how many people I could knife - so funny

'Humiliation!' LOL

The daddy of online shooters. Still a blast now many years later.

[Rifkens]

The amount of time I pumped into 1.6 Assault is humiliating :(

I'd still be playing 1.5 if they didn't shut the WON servers down... my god has it been 10 years already :'(