Counter Strike is a phenomenon that has largely passed me by; although
I've owned a copy for a while via a Half-Life bundle I bought a while
ago, and of course through Steam, it's not something I've ever really
got into.
Maybe it's because of having an ever increasing family and the
attendant lack of time required to play the game and learn the maps,
or maybe it was the attitude of the l33t 13 year olds playing the game
towards n00bs (like myself) that put me off.
Anyway, I decided to buy the Half-Life 2 Silver package via Steam the
other day (I already had Half-Life 2 on order via Amazon, but I've
decided against the additional wait of hanging around for the postman
after the game has officially been released). Intrigued as to how the
Source engine would perform on my setup, I decided to fire up Counter
Strike: Source.
Well, blow me down if it's not a cracking game. The graphics are
gorgeous, and the gameplay definitely has that 'just one more go...'
feel to it. Oh well, better go; I've got years of terrorist related
gameplay to catch up on before Half Life 2 is activated....