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A mate at uni got this last week and has been going on about how good it is to play and how good Half Life 2 looks. Judging by the screenshots it does indeed look good and very detailed - physics of it look class too.
Just not sure if it really is worth getting though...
How does it play?
Just not sure if it really is worth getting though...
How does it play?
Miserableman wrote:
> I didn't like CS Source when I played it. My official excuse is that
> next to Enemy Territory the limited gameplay is really lacking (which
> it is), but the real reason is that every time I was in firefight
> with someone, I lost. I couldn't get used to the way the guns worked
> before I got tired of just getting killed and went back to a game I
> was good at.
I agree in part. The game is still fairly light, using the terrorists vs. counter terrorists game mode, which in this day and age is looking fairly old and overused, especially when game like United Offensive expand on that premise and add a whole host of new and excellent features. Counter Strike: Source essentially boils down to Counter Strike, with better graphics. Graphics being the only major advancement..
Still, I am enjoying it more. I'm not dying as much, games don't seem to end is spectating the final two "thick as a plank" players running around in circles for each other, and I'm just having lots of fun with the new interactive levels.
However, as soon as Day of Defeat: Source comes out, I'll doubtfully play CS as much. DOD was always my favourite HL mod.
> I didn't like CS Source when I played it. My official excuse is that
> next to Enemy Territory the limited gameplay is really lacking (which
> it is), but the real reason is that every time I was in firefight
> with someone, I lost. I couldn't get used to the way the guns worked
> before I got tired of just getting killed and went back to a game I
> was good at.
I agree in part. The game is still fairly light, using the terrorists vs. counter terrorists game mode, which in this day and age is looking fairly old and overused, especially when game like United Offensive expand on that premise and add a whole host of new and excellent features. Counter Strike: Source essentially boils down to Counter Strike, with better graphics. Graphics being the only major advancement..
Still, I am enjoying it more. I'm not dying as much, games don't seem to end is spectating the final two "thick as a plank" players running around in circles for each other, and I'm just having lots of fun with the new interactive levels.
However, as soon as Day of Defeat: Source comes out, I'll doubtfully play CS as much. DOD was always my favourite HL mod.
I disliked CS alot... However you're all making this sound good. I might have to give it a play some time.
I didn't like CS Source when I played it. My official excuse is that next to Enemy Territory the limited gameplay is really lacking (which it is), but the real reason is that every time I was in firefight with someone, I lost. I couldn't get used to the way the guns worked before I got tired of just getting killed and went back to a game I was good at.
Think I might just have to get this when I get round to getting my new graphics card and motherboard
Will need to get them soon :-)
Will need to get them soon :-)
There's more to the uniforms than different colours, personally I find it easy to distinguish each side from one another. Those that shoot at you for example, are either enemies, or idiots.
I am going on Counter Strike: Source though, which only allows either the grey urban type terrorist uniform, or green SEAL Counter Terrorist clothes. Most of the CS:S servers don't have friendly fire enabled either, so it makes not one blind bit of difference whether you shoot your own team or not. Unless you don't want to come off a complete moron that is, although many people would rather stand and shoot PC‘s to see those lovely physics in effect than stand about plugging a few rounds in a companion.
On the whole though, CS: Source is much better than the earlier CS games, I was never a big fan of the originals and never really paid them much attention, but the Source version is allot easier to get to grips with, and thanks some excellent new graphics and tweaks, allot more fun to play as well.
I am going on Counter Strike: Source though, which only allows either the grey urban type terrorist uniform, or green SEAL Counter Terrorist clothes. Most of the CS:S servers don't have friendly fire enabled either, so it makes not one blind bit of difference whether you shoot your own team or not. Unless you don't want to come off a complete moron that is, although many people would rather stand and shoot PC‘s to see those lovely physics in effect than stand about plugging a few rounds in a companion.
On the whole though, CS: Source is much better than the earlier CS games, I was never a big fan of the originals and never really paid them much attention, but the Source version is allot easier to get to grips with, and thanks some excellent new graphics and tweaks, allot more fun to play as well.
oasismark wrote:
> But i like the idea of being in a team, and once your dead, your
> dead, it's just i don't know where to go and what to do, and who i'm
> suppose to kill or who i'm suppose help.
If you don't know who's who and what it is you're meant to do, then you'll probably want abandon all hope of ever playing CS. It's one of the easiest to grasp online FPS there is.
Terrorists wear grey camouflage, Counter Terrorists wear green camouflage. Terrorist either keep hostages that CT's need to rescue or have to plant bombs at specific zones that the CT's have to stop, or disarm if the bomb is planted.
There we go, I've explained everything. Most of the time games just degenerate into huge fire fights, so completion of objectives is pretty much void anyway.
> But i like the idea of being in a team, and once your dead, your
> dead, it's just i don't know where to go and what to do, and who i'm
> suppose to kill or who i'm suppose help.
If you don't know who's who and what it is you're meant to do, then you'll probably want abandon all hope of ever playing CS. It's one of the easiest to grasp online FPS there is.
Terrorists wear grey camouflage, Counter Terrorists wear green camouflage. Terrorist either keep hostages that CT's need to rescue or have to plant bombs at specific zones that the CT's have to stop, or disarm if the bomb is planted.
There we go, I've explained everything. Most of the time games just degenerate into huge fire fights, so completion of objectives is pretty much void anyway.
oasismark wrote:
> As a total noob to online gaming, where can i find a beginers guide to
> playing counter strike?
>
> As i know i'm just gonna get hammered and slagged off everytime i try
> to learn whats going on.
>
> I can't even tell who's who, in the game? no wonder i'm crap.
Just get UT2004 - its much easier to get into, theres none of the strict team based gameplay of CS, so you can go off and do your own thing...
> As a total noob to online gaming, where can i find a beginers guide to
> playing counter strike?
>
> As i know i'm just gonna get hammered and slagged off everytime i try
> to learn whats going on.
>
> I can't even tell who's who, in the game? no wonder i'm crap.
Just get UT2004 - its much easier to get into, theres none of the strict team based gameplay of CS, so you can go off and do your own thing...
Half Life Counter Strike - I hate, Half Life 2 Counter Strike - I like.
The graphics are as amazing as they’ve been hyped up to be. Excellent animations, brilliant effects (such as the way smoke clouds flash when people shoot guns in them) and a physics engine that’s near perfect. Ragdoll effects have never looked as good as they have here, while the Havoc physics engine allows a far greater number of objects to be moved. You can even shoot out the individual bits of hardware from PC’s, motherboards, 3D cards even RAM chips.
The sound is perfect, near flawless in fact. Every object has it’s own sound, when bullets hit wood, it sounds like wood, floor tiles smash, steel fences “ching”, and I have never heard glass shatter as brilliantly as it does here, it makes me want to shoot window’s every time I see them. Sounds even get muffled as you move room to room, making the everything sound far more realistic.
I find the game far more fun to play than in it’s previous outings. Having mass shoot outs down corridors, grenades making barrels and filling cabinets you use as cover, fly up into the air, being sneaky and pushing movable objects over bombs to fool Counter Terrorists. I may not have liked the original, but CS: Source is getting quite addictive, even though I am still a bit naff at playing it.
The graphics are as amazing as they’ve been hyped up to be. Excellent animations, brilliant effects (such as the way smoke clouds flash when people shoot guns in them) and a physics engine that’s near perfect. Ragdoll effects have never looked as good as they have here, while the Havoc physics engine allows a far greater number of objects to be moved. You can even shoot out the individual bits of hardware from PC’s, motherboards, 3D cards even RAM chips.
The sound is perfect, near flawless in fact. Every object has it’s own sound, when bullets hit wood, it sounds like wood, floor tiles smash, steel fences “ching”, and I have never heard glass shatter as brilliantly as it does here, it makes me want to shoot window’s every time I see them. Sounds even get muffled as you move room to room, making the everything sound far more realistic.
I find the game far more fun to play than in it’s previous outings. Having mass shoot outs down corridors, grenades making barrels and filling cabinets you use as cover, fly up into the air, being sneaky and pushing movable objects over bombs to fool Counter Terrorists. I may not have liked the original, but CS: Source is getting quite addictive, even though I am still a bit naff at playing it.
A mate at uni got this last week and has been going on about how good it is to play and how good Half Life 2 looks. Judging by the screenshots it does indeed look good and very detailed - physics of it look class too.
Just not sure if it really is worth getting though...
How does it play?
Just not sure if it really is worth getting though...
How does it play?