Counter-Strike: Source

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Introduction

Counter Strike Source commonly abbreviated to CS:S is a popular First-person shooter (FPS) game developed around the well known Steam Source Platform. The orginal Counter Strike was released in August 2004 and then an update was relased during Christmas 2005. This update is what we now play, Counter Strike Source.

Counter Strike Source is a First Person Shooter where Counter Terrorist forces and Terrorist forces are pitted head to head in a series of realistic maps. Each force has their own selection of player models including: SAS, GIGN and Guerilla.

Game Play

Counter Strike: Source
Developer	Valve
Publisher	Valve
Series	Half-Life series
Engine	Source
Version	Most updated
Released	November 1, 2004
Genre	First Person Shooter
Ratings	ESRB: M+
Game Platforms	Windows, Macintosh OS X
Media Forms	DVD-ROM (1 Disc) Or available for download from Steam
Required Devices	Keyboard, Mouse, Other Neat Things
Reviews	Steam [1]

As previously mentioned, CS:S involves 2 teams (Counter Terrorist vs Terrorists) fighting against each other in the hope of winning the rounds. There are two types of maps, De_ and Cs_. De_ are bomb maps where the objective for terroists is to get to a designated bomb site, plant the bomb and protect it until it explodes. The objective for counter terrorists on De_ maps is to defend the bomb sites, and if the bomb gets planted, to diffuse the bomb before it explodes.

Cs_ maps involve hostages, sometimes lovingly referred to as hossies. The objective for the terrorists is to defend the hostages from the counter terrorists who are trying to rescue them. For the counter terrorists to rescue the hostages, they have to be collected and escorted back to a specified hostage collection area.

Dynamic Weapon Pricing (DWP)

This update was introduced around 2 years after the first release of CS:S. During the game, players have chances to build up cash funds to buy expensive weapons by killing more people and winning. The DWP feature allowed servers to use a logarythm (updated every week) to calculate the prices of weapons dependent on the actual real life global demand and prices for the weapons.

However after the excitement of thinking of playing with real life pricing systems has mostly died off, DWP has now been stopped.

Weapons

CS:S offers players to try out a vast selection of weapons. Some of the most popular being the Desert Eagle (pistol), M4 (Rifle) and the Ak47 (Rifle). The full range of weapon types available to each team is: Pistols, Sub Machine Guns, Shotguns, Rifles, Machine Guns, and Grenades

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Full list of weapons: Counter Strike SourceWeaponary

• Bowie Knife

Pistols

• USP
• Glock 18c
• Desert Eagle
• P228
• Duel Elite Barettas
• FiveSeven

Shotguns

• M3 Super 90 Entry
• XM1014 (M4 Super 90)

Sub Machine Guns (SMG)

• MP5-Navy
• Steyr Tactical Machine Pistol (TMP)
• P90 Personal Defense Weapon
• MAC-10
• Universal Machinenpistole (UMP)

Rifles

• IMI Galil
• FAMAS
• Avtomat Kalashnikov Model 47 (AK-47)
• SG-552 Commando
• M4A1 Carbine with Silencer
• Steyr AUG A1 (Bulpup)
• Scout
• AWP
• G3/SG-1 Precision Sniper Rifle
• SG-550 Sniper Rifle

Machine Guns

• M249 PARA Light Machine Gun

Other information

Modding

Counter Strike Source has been heavily modded. Most common mods are the Source SDK Plugins which can be installed on a compatible CS:S server and used using RCON commands. The Mani Admin Pluginis a plugin created to aid server owners in the administration of their servers. This "fun" plugin not only allowed the common administration commands (kick, ban etc) it also allowed for a wide range of fun commands that slapped, froze and even allowed a player to zoom around the map immortal.

Possible the most well known mod, is the Quake Sounds Pack which can be installed on servers and during gameplay announces things such as: "Monster kill", "First Blood" and "Holy Sh!t!".

Useful sites

• Total Gaming Network CS:S Section

• To download Counter Strike Source

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