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Counter Strike : Global Offensive, perhaps one of the most famous first person shooter till this day.
Here are the things worth mentioning about this game.

This is the review in a nutshell.
Pros :
-A game focused on team play
-Reappearance of maps and weapons
-Competitive play and ranking system
-Custom servers
-Market
-A high skill ceiling game
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Problems :
-Hit-Registration problem
-Inconsistency on the VAC system and concerns about cheaters and scammers
-Lack of casual play with competitive game settings (5v5 unranked casual)
-Competitive mindset and player base
-(Negligible)Blunt and plastic gun sounds
-(Negligible)Does not support Steam Pipe
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Review in details :

-Pros : A game focused on team play
A fine combination of map geometry, weapon balancing, grenade usage and money management, this game requires the 5-man team to communicate with each other to defeat the enemies, which is why this game is popular among E-Sports.


-Pros : Reappeareance of maps and weapons
If you are a Counter Strike fan, you will like this game. You will visit some of the maps originally featured in Counter Strike 1.6 and Source, completely remastered with the modern day graphics and details. You will also get to hold some of the beautiful guns featured in earilier games, such as the AK, the M4, and the AW.


-Pros : Competitive play and ranking system
This game is a competitive game, so people you will be facing will be tough and not willing to give up, you will have to use your muscle memory to control your fire and your wisdom to outsmart your enemy, as well as communication between your team.

If you like glory, then you will like this game. This game features a ranking system which fluctuates according to your performance in a competitive match. The Global Elite Rank (the highest rank) is perhaps everyone's dream, or for modest people, to become good at this game.
If you also wish to be a part of the E-Sports, this is the game you deserve. CSGO in E-Sports is a big thing nowadays.

Otherwise, if you wish to be isolated from the competitive scene, you can play some casual gamemode like Arms Race, War Game, Casual, Wingmen.


-Pros : Custom server
Modding is considered the afterlife of a game. Even though the game does not support steam pipes, it still allows servers with custom rules.
Many community-made gamemode have reappeared on the server list, such as Zombie Escape, Jail Break, Death Run, Surf, and many more worth playing.


-Pros : Market
Not only you can have fun in CSGO, you also have the chance to make money out of this game. CSGO is known for one of the reason being the weapon skins. These skins are rare in the game and some of them worth a lot. If you wish to make money in the meantime, this game is for you.


-Pros : A high skill celling game
The weapon system is a hard to master game element. After shooting the gun for a long time, the gun will point above the crosshair and makes your shots in places you don't want them to be. By memorizing the spraying pattern and have muscle memory, you will have a significant advantage over the enemy since recoil handling always results in either winning or dying.

Other than guns, you will also need to depend on grenades to gain advantages over the enemy. Not only do you have to know about when to use them, but also where to use them. Studying the map is always important since you have to position yourself according to the weapon you are holding and where you are attacking/defending.

That's why this game recieved the popularity it deserves.


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-Problems : Hit-Registration problem
Perhaps one of the main concerns for seasoned players. Sometimes what players see aren't what the server sees, and thus where they're aiming and standing isn't entirely the same. This is because most of the MatchMaking servers are in 64-tick instead of 128-tick, something directly related to the players' aiming and movement. Therefore, where the players are aiming is less consistent for the servers and the players sometimes miss their shot even when they thought hit the target.
Unless Valve upgrade MatchMaking servers to 128-tick, the problems will still persist and can potentially ruin certain people's games.


-Problems : Inconsistency on the VAC system and concerns about cheaters and scammers
This game is notoriously known for the large amount of hackers willing to pay money for the sake of winning competitive game, and the VAC system is considered inconsistent and useless by pretty much everyone, so cheaters are unavoidable. Be prepared when playing competitive games, and report any cheaters immediately.

Marketing in a video game also means scammers doing various tricks to "steal" money out of people, CSGO is one of them. With some of the item worth up to 500USD, you will risk suffering greatly if you're not careful with trading.


-Problems : Lack of casual play with competitive game settings (5v5 unranked casual)
The official Casual gamemode requires you to play in a 10 vs 10 match, the other gamemodes include Deathmatch and Arms Race do not use competitive game settings. This may be a problem if you wish to train yourself for competitive play without risking losing ranks. (which I don't really care about losing ranks)


-Problems : Competitive mindset and the player base.
No one wants to lose ranks (i.e. glory). So people in competitive gamemode will do anything to win, from cursing and swearing at their opponents, to kicking their own teammates for their disappointing performances in game. There will be a lot of flames going off in this game, don't set off a bigger flames by doing the same thing to them. Instead, ignore or mute them.


-Problems (negligible) : Blunt and plastic gun sound.
I really enjoyed the gun sound of the older version of the game, but to "reduce ear fatique", the gun sound has been forcefully changed from familiar and satisfying sound of guns into something I really don't like to hear, which is disappointing because gun sounds are something I wish to enjoy in games.


-Problems (negligible) : Does not support steam pipe.
Unfortunately, unlike other Source games, CSGO does not support user modding except for custom player model used in custom server. For modders like me, I can't mod the game the way I want even when in community servers.
And yes, you can't change gun sounds.


Conclusion
So is this game good? Definitely yes, it is a perfect game for competitive play and it is a game enjoyable.
But the problem isn't the game, but the playerbase and the developers themselves.