It has been 10 years since Counter Strike was released in open beta on June 18, 1999. Half-Life: Counter-Strike has come a long way over the years but is still incredibly popular.
This team based terrorist warfare massively multiplayer online first person shooter even made our list of the Top 10 MMOFPS Games.
Check out the below high definition gameplay Counter Strike video.
Counter-Strike maintains an 88 out of 100 Metascore from Meta critic and is available on Steam in English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Counter Strike 1.6 was updated last on May 19, 2009. Steam game stats indicate that over the last 48 hours Counter-Strike Steam players numbered an average of about 1.4 million concurrent users.
Counter-Strike Steam Server Concurrent Player Stats:
More recently we wrote about a 17 year old girl who quit school to play Counter Strike professionally in leagues such as the Cyberathlete Amateur League and CyberEvolution. Playing Counter-Strike professionally has been going on since the first world wide competining sponsored by Dell and Valve in 2003.
Counter Strike 1.6 Steam HD Gameplay Video:
The Counter Strike Source Code has taken on a life of it’s own around a growing community of developers, script writers, and modders resulting in newer modes of play, flexible plugins, and fun and entertaining challenges. Counter Strike hacks and cheats have themselves become a challenge and part of the game as well as a cat and mouse game with Valve against account bans and other deterants.
More HD Steam Counter Strike 1.6 Gameplay Video:
The game has undergone many versions from Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike Online, Counter Strike Source, Counter-Strike 1.5, Counter Strike 1.6, and the Xbox version Counter-Strike: Anthology and Counter-Strike. The game was even used as a tactical training tool by members of the military. Today it is still widely played although given the 10 year anniversary it is time to update the graphics and the engine yet again.