Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (abbreviated as CS:GO) is an online first-person shooter developed by Valve Corporation and Hidden Path Entertainment, who also maintained Counter-Strike: Source after its release. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike franchise, excludingCounter-Strike Neo and Online.
Global Offensive was released on 21 August 2012 and made available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on Steam, Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade, and a US-only version on the PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network. It features classic content, such as revamped versions of old maps; as well as brand new maps, characters and game modes. Cross-platform multiplayer was planned between Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X andPlayStation 3 players,[5] but was ultimately limited to Windows and Mac OS due to the differences in update frequency between the systems.[6]The PlayStation 3 version offers three input control methods, which include using either the DualShock 3 controller, PlayStation Move or USB keyboard/mouse.
Gameplay
Like the previous games in the series, Global Offensive is an objective-based multiplayer first-person shooter. Each player joins either the Terrorist or Counter-Terrorist team and attempts to complete objectives or eliminate the enemy team. The game operates in short rounds that end when all players on one side are dead or a team's objective is completed. For most game modes, once a player dies, they must wait until the round ends to respawn. Players purchase weapons and equipment at the beginning of every round with money awarded based on their performance. Completing objectives or killing enemies earns the player money while negative actions, like killing a teammate or hostage, takes money away from the player. In addition, when a round ends all players receive some amount of money, with players on the winning team receiving substantially more.
Global Offensive adds new weapons and equipment not seen in previous installments, most notably thefirebomb for each side (Molotovs for Terrorists and incendiary grenades for Counter-Terrorists). These temporarily cover a small area in fire, making it impossible to pass through without slowing down and taking damage.[7][8]
[edit]Game modes
Global Offensive features four game modes for online play:
- Classic Casual and Competitive: Counter-Strike's most well-known game mode, both involving Defusal and Hostage missions.[9] At the start of each round, players can purchase weapons and gear with money earned from various actions, from assisting on kills to completeing objectives. For both mission types, a round ends when either a team completes an objective, or eliminates the other team.
- Defusal: the Terrorists must plant a C4 explosive at one of two designated bombsites; the Counter-Terrorists must prevent the bomb from exploding.[10]
- Hostage: the Counter-Terrorists must rescue hostages from the Terrorists, and bring them to an extraction point; the Terrorists must prevent the hostages from escaping. Killing a hostage will result in a heavy cash penalty.[11]
- Arms Race: a deathmatch-based mode where each player is rewarded for each kill with a new weapon, with the first player to get a kill with every weapon in a predetermined set winning the game.[12][13]
- Demolition: a round-based mode that removes weapon and equipment purchasing, instead rewarding players who manage at least one kill by giving the next weapon in a predetermined set of weapons.[14][15]
Global Offensive also offers two offline modes: Offline with Bots, which offers the same game modes with AI-controlled bots; and a Weapons Course for inexperienced and veteran players alike.[16]
| Developer(s) | Valve Corporation Hidden Path Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Valve Corporation |
| Series | Counter-Strike |
| Engine | Source[1] |
| Version | November 16, 2012[2] |
| Platform(s) | Steam Microsoft Windows Mac OS X PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 |
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
| Media/distribution | Download |
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