Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) the newest addition to the Counter-Strike franchise supposedly takes the best from both its most famous predecessors, Counter-Strike 1.6 and Counter-Strike Source. I as a person who has played 1.6 for approximately 8 years cannot confirm that wholy, but I can at least say that the game is fun to play, with the biggest advantage it has over it's older brothers being the matchmaking. I would easily pay Valve $100 for 1.6 with the matchmaking from CS:GO. But that is not gonna happen so for the time being I just have to settle with what CS:GO offers.

I might have sounded a little more negative than I wanted. The graphics are nice enough even though well aged Source engine, although with the newest tweaks, cannot compare with latest AAA production. Apart from new look you will find your all time favorites from previous Counter-Strike games, same goes for weapons and game mods. However there is not only an old content. You will find couple of new guns and what I appreciated most were new maps created by community and published in buy-able packs by Valve providing the creators with part of earnings.

Later on the game suffered an attack of "dropable" content. Fortunately Valve did not step over cosmetic changes, so you can only spend your hard earned bucks on different weapons skins, at least for now.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) the newest addition to the Counter-Strike franchise supposedly takes the best from both its most famous predecessors, Counter-Strike 1.6 and Counter-Strike Source. I as a person who has played 1.6 for approximately 8 years cannot confirm that wholy, but I can at least say that the game is fun to play, with the biggest advantage it has over it's older brothers being the matchmaking. I would easily pay Valve $100 for 1.6 with the matchmaking from CS:GO. But that is not gonna happen so for the time being I just have to settle with what CS:GO offers. I might have sounded a little more negative than I wanted. The graphics are nice enough even though well aged Source engine, although with the newest tweaks, cannot compare with latest AAA production. Apart from new look you will find your all time favorites from previous Counter-Strike games, same goes for weapons and game mods. However there is not only an old content. You will find couple of new guns and what I appreciated most were new maps created by community and published in buy-able packs by Valve providing the creators with part of earnings. Later on the game suffered an attack of "dropable" content. Fortunately Valve did not step over cosmetic changes, so you can only spend your hard earned bucks on different weapons skins, at least for now.