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Counter Strike for Xbox Videos >>
Rating Reviewed By CypherStrife(I play it whenever I can) Review Date 12/30/2003 Overall Rating  4 of 5 Value Rating  0 of 5 Visitors rate this review 2.33 of 5, 3 votes Rate this review? Summary A great game, originally on the PC. Counter-Strike is the most played online FPS game I have seen. Counter-Strike for XBOX certainly does live up to the PC version.Sound The sound is not as good as on the PC, but they are decent. Some sounds are the same as on the PC, though.Gameplay Gameplay is quite simple, either defuse a bomb which Terrorists have planted, or rescue hostages (depends on which map you play on). Or you can just kill the other team.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By SoCA13(Enough) Review Date 12/24/2003 Overall Rating 4 of 5 Value Rating 0 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Not a hardcore gamer or ever played the PC version but have heard alot about it over the years. So when the Xbox version came out, I decided to try it out and see what all the hoop-la was all about. In a nut-shell, it's a very simple concept game that is surprisingly addictive. There is not much more you can say about that. You pick a side, start from a "home-base" and play a seek and destroy until one side wins. Not much more to it then that. What I do like is, once you are dead, you are dead until the game is over and start all over again. I will say, if you don't have Xbox Live, this game is not worth getting. Single player version is nothing more then a place to hone your aiming skills for online play. No missions involved, just get up and go type of play. For Xbox Live, it's great, get to play with folks from all over the world and try real-time team tactics with people who are willing. Sucks playing against fools who hide in corners and tap you out with a headshot as you look for them. Oh well, whatever it takes to win I guess...just not my style. No Xbox Live? Skip it and rent it to check it out. Xbox Live? I think it's worthy addition, practice alot though, you will die early and fast when first starting out.Sound Guns that go boom and teammates voices, is that enough for you? Hope so, because thats pretty much it. Very basic, like the game....but I like it that way.Gameplay Pretty simple, just go out and kill the other team. It takes some time to get pretty accurate though, I can see why people would prefer the mouse over a game pad. I think the game developers did a pretty good job, just like anything in the world, there is a slight learning curve. Game play is similar to Halo. Single player mode is great to learn how to shoot accurately. AI is pretty smart but overly difficult in Professional mode...it's a pretty much automatic headshot when you encounter the enemy, or maybe I just suck that bad.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By csguy88(20+) Review Date 12/03/2003 Overall Rating  5 of 5 Value Rating 0 of 5 Visitors rate this review 3.00 of 5, 2 votes Rate this review? Summary The game is basically like the original one for PC. So basically if you liked that one you will love the version for the Xbox. There are new maps and even some new guns. There are also new characters. Even the old maps look better. If you know the map dust, you will see a huge improvement. The graphics are a lot better also. So basically if you liked the PC version, you will absolutley love the xbox version.Sound The sound is awsome also. Explosions sound like it's happening right in your house. The sounds from the bullets sound great. It's even better if you have sorround sound or speakers.Gameplay The gameplay is good. It has the same shooting and controling as Halo. Playing on xbox live is the best. Communicating with other players improves the game a lot. You can stratize before the game begins. The game is very simple to get the hang of. Not saying that it's an easy game because it's not.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By thephaige(8) Review Date 11/22/2003 Overall Rating 4 of 5 Value Rating 0 of 5 Visitors rate this review 5.00 of 5, 3 votes Rate this review? Summary Counter strike is quite an amazing game.Originally developed by a couple of teens as a free mod for the PC game Half life it blew open the doors on the multiplayer arena.I myself have spent untold hours playing the pc version and consider myself an adept player.I also believe I have a keen eye for quality. Since the first few hours playing CS I knew that the game just felt right and never inna game has my heart pounded so much, even after all these years. So here we have it The Xbox version.How could this game be enjoyable with a controller was my first question.Being that the mouse keyboard setup is ideal for fist person shooters. Many of my initial preconcieved thoughts about how this conversion would survive are adressed and I must say noone is more surprized than myself. The things I would have liked to see: Bindable controller keys(standard layout is confining ) More controller sensitivity options.(seems either too sensitive or too unresponsive)Sound Sound seems fine no real overwhelmingly blow your mind stuff goin on here.No sound track or heavy metal frag music crankin. Anyone who has played CS knows how critical ingame sounds are or the lack of them for stealth and Xbox version does all these thing justice.Gameplay Well its still Counter strike no questions about it.Intense action,addictive gameplay,easy to learn hard to master,very fluid,great opportunity for teamplay. Ive alway enjoyed the tension of knowing that when I die I die.In CS you must sit out the round after death unlike other multi games where you just respawn over and over.This mechanic enhances the tension 3 fold. But it also allows for you to watch others strategies and such in first person mode u can see what they see so death can be fun too.Plus you can chat it up with the other dead ones and form strats for the next round.The buy menu interphase is very well implemented also making it nearly as quik to buy your stuff as in the pc version. It will be a learning curve for PC veterans who would otherwise rack up the kills but even though i wasnt as good as i am on the pc I picked it up quik and it is a blast. Also The bots AI is some of the best ever seen in any game ever if they are set to professional or expert.But I would start at the beginner stage and amp up as you go.The bots are very dumb at this setting.And Please realize that bots are nice to get the feel of the game and to practice with but If you Want to get addicted to this game it will only happen when you go Live with real folks. WHATTA RUSHWould you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member.
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