Counter-Strike is a team-based multiplayer tactical first-person shooter in which players join either the Terrorist or Counter-Terrorist side and compete in objective-based rounds. The primary game modes involve bomb defusal and hostage rescue, played across designated maps. Players purchase weapons and equipment between rounds using money earned from eliminations and completed objectives, and eliminated players must wait until the next round to respawn. Originally a fan-made modification for Half-Life created by Minh Le and Jess Cliffe in 1999, it was acquired by Valve and released as a standalone retail product in 2000, becoming one of the most influential first-person shooters and spawning multiple sequels including Counter-Strike: Source, Global Offensive, and Counter-Strike 2.
Screenshots · 12
Trailers · 1
Genres
Shooter
76 more tags
Multiplayer
Banned
Bloody
Bomb defusal mode
Camera control
Camping
Cheat code
Competitive
Controversy
Death
Dedicated servers
Digital distribution
Dual wielding
E-sports
Esports
Explosion
Falling damage
Friendly fire
Game developers choice awards 2001
Gravity
Greatest hits
Guerilla warfare
Hostages
Hotkey
Human
Humiliation
In-game map editor
Instant kill
Inverted controls
Kill streak
Linear gameplay
Machinima
Melee
Meme origin
Military
Mod origin
Modern military
Modern warfare
Multiplayer lan
Multiplayer scoreboard
No respawn
Non-player character
Objective-based team gameplay
Online
Particle system
Pc to console port
Polygonal 3D
Professional gaming
Respawning
Scatological humor
Shopping
Sniping
Soldier
Special forces
Stacking
Stat tracking
Steam
Strafe-jumping
Suicide
Team deathmatch
Team killing
Terrorists
Text dialogue
Throwing weapons
User generated content
Valve anti-cheat
Vent crawling
Wasd movement
Weapons swap
Xbox 360 backwards compatibility
Linux
Mac
Pc (microsoft windows)
First person
Action
Warfare
