Counter-Strike: Source
Overwhelmingly Positive
Total: 41.5 ThousandPositive: 39.9 ThousandNegative: 1.63 Thousand
Counter-Strike: Source is a legendary multiplayer FPS that combines intense team-based action with the advanced Source™ engine. With an AI Community Rating of 89.55%, it’s praised for its fun gameplay, improved graphics, and nostalgic appeal. Players love its casual modes like Zombie Escape and Surfing, as well as its cross-platform multiplayer and Steam achievements. However, some note that gunplay mechanics feel inferior to CS 1.6, and server populations can fluctuate. While the community appreciates the game’s state-of-the-art graphics and physics for its time, others suggest modernizing visuals and improving offline bot AI. Despite minor bugs and occasional toxicity, Counter-Strike: Source remains a must-play for action gamers seeking a mix of nostalgia and competitive fun. If you’re into fast-paced, team-driven shooters, this classic is worth a try.
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It's essentially a remake/remaster of the original game (1.6) with graphical enhancements, improved sounds, additional maps, prop & ragdoll physics, and other changes. Multiplayer activity nowadays seems to fluctuate pretty heavily from time to time — in terms of the "Big Two" classic Counter-Strike games, I've seen Source with both [i] less [/i] players than 1.6 and also [i] more [/i] players than 1.6 — but it still has built-in customizable offline bot matches across all maps, so you can always have fun regardless of how many players are online. You can also always easily download more community maps from places like GameBanana (my favorite is de_nightfever). Overall Source is an excellent, smooth-running CS game
This might sound funny, but this game feels super fresh after 13 years of maining CSGO and CS2. For community maps and fun, casual gamemodes, CSS is the best. Simply put, CSS excels at everything CS2 is currently neglecting. I hope CS2 will eventually offer everything this game does and more, but for now they compliment each other very nicely. I miss this kind of Counter-Strike. Also it can run on a potato which is very nice.
I'm a 59 year old father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my son who is now 13 years old. My son recently started playing Counter Strike Source In less than a week, he has already played more than 40 hours. This was terrible for me because it was already hard enough for me to spend time with my son. because he was always with his friends or watching videos on YouTube. So I decided to create a Steam account to play with my son. I started playing, but it was my first time playing a video game since the 90s, so I was pretty lost. I asked my son for help, and we spent several hours playing this game together. I loved it because it was the best time I had with my son since my wife died. Playing video games reminded me that there is fun in everything, and it brought me and my son closer again, and now we actually spend time together outside the home.
very smooth surfing hundred times better than cs2 maybe the prestrafe takes a little longer but otherwise much better graphics pretty good for like 1978 or whenever this released depending on the map never tried anything else
You know, I love the counter-strike series, I really like the uncomplicated dynamic gameplay of cs. But, unfortunately, the game has a disadvantage, because of which there is no desire to play it. No, it's not outdated graphics, it's not the size of the maps, etc. And the community is the community that lives on every public in cs. These people instead of giving humanely information, instead of covering their teammates (who, by the way, ask them to do so in the voice chat a million times), instead of infesting any point when necessary. People make small talk about anything: prison, girls, how they recently fuсkеd someone, how they recently got drunk, how to fight, how they bought a new car, how they served. And it would be okay if they were just talking, so they yell and freak out when someone kills them, behave so inadequately that sometimes you want to hit their head against their monitor. And these animals also like to rent servers, on which they pump a bunch of all kinds of flawed music from 2007, all kinds of ridiculous skins, gloves "Adidas" knife "Adidas", body armor "Adidas", bombs in the form of naked women, etc., parachutes, double jumps, a whole range of all sorts of abilities that break the atmosphere of the game.
you know when i purchased and played this game i really thought it was a cool game. but it was always a counter strike.. "lets see how far you can get *dies*" its just no fun. it was the players that made it fun but they're long gone and its just not cool. looking at it today it really sucks and i wish i could get my life back. F those players. (purchased 2008, 1000 hours)
Was not ever as good as 1.6. It had better graphics but that was it. If you don't believe me check the player numbers. Even today 1.6 still dominates source because the gunplay is that much better there.
Only get this to get rid of Gmod's pink and black problem. Gameplay is repetitive, dying is frequent and enraging, two thirds of this game's remaining population has a constant language barrier and you may get kicked for not having the same nationality as them. Worst of all there's barely any incentive to keep playing a game with limited gameplay mechanics and is essentially reliant on player population. Hence this game would've fared better if it didn't put all of it's eggs in the multiplayer basket. A few things that I like about CSS are some of it's maps, the interactivity and detail of these maps and how you can manipulate some of their props - Prop manipulation was removed from Global Offensive to prevent random variables in it's competitive scene, (yet it still has broken hit detection) which makes this game feel slightly more laid back than Global Offensive. Lastly the weapons are kind of alright and their animations were decent for a game that was made in 2004. The animations felt less stiff and rushed compared to CSGO's weapon animations, despite the view models being a tad bit unrealistic and flipped from left-handed perspectives. Unfortunately the custom/community servers didn't make this game a better experience - There are instances where players pay to win by donating to the server for perks, this means that the player will basically gain access to unfair advantages; such as more health/armour and weapon damage. Even if those guys aren't around, you're going to spend more time in empty maps getting AWPed every two seconds.
We used to steal from our poor parents to play this game and its predecessors. However, I can no longer recommend any CS game because of the poor choices Valve has made with the new games and how toxic the CS community has become. 6/10
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