It was a successful online multiplayer experience ostensibly without a single-player accompaniment.įirst-person shooters are a natural fit for multiplayer. But Counter Strike is unique, and not only because it revolutionized the first-person shooter. After settling into the competitive, online playing field of Counter Strike, I found all other functions of the game superfluous. To this day, I have never played more than 30 minutes of the original Half-Life. So when a friend told me to buy Half-Life in order to play alongside him and millions of others in Counter Strike for free, I was sold. Though I owned Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II for the Nintendo Gamecube, the $10-a-month charge to play online was too steep for my part-time, $7 an hour job. In my high school years, I was a Nintendo devotee, which afforded the bare minimum of online gaming experiences. Counter Strike version 1.3 was the first video game that I played online in any capacity.
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