Shooting while moving dramatically decreases accuracy, and holding the trigger down to continuously shoot produces severe recoil. This gameplay feature distinguishes Counter-Strike from other first-person shooter games, where players respawn instantly or after a short delay. Once players are killed, they do not respawn until the next round, though this depends on which server people play on. The ultimate goal of the game is to win more rounds than the opposing team. The aim of playing a map is to accomplish a map's objective: defusing the bomb, rescuing all hostages, or killing the entire opposing team. The game was initially bundled with all retail and digital copies of Half-Life before being released standalone.Ĭounter-Strike: Source retains its team-based objective-orientated first-person shooter style gameplay. Each round is won either by completing an objective (such as detonating a bomb or rescuing hostages) or by eliminating all members of the enemy team. As in the original, Counter-Strike: Source pits a team of counter-terrorists against a team of terrorists in a series of rounds.
Released in November 2004 for Microsoft Windows, it is a remake of Counter-Strike (1999) using the Source game engine. Counter-Strike: Source is a first-person shooter video game developed by Valve and Turtle Rock Studios.
