Half-Life: Counter-Strike

by Vivendi Universal

Product Features

• This game combines all the elements of the Half-Life online universe, with new single and multiplaye
• Start things off with Counter-Strike -- the intense multiplayer gaming experience where you can be e
• In Team Fortress, you can select new character classes -- Medic, Sniper, Engineer and 6 other import
• Opposing Force Multiplayer brings in new maps like Black Mesa, plus new weapons and player character
• Also includes exciting new game modes and new firearms for a more complete gaming experience!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004TJCL
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (300 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,873 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Half-Life: Counter-Strike contains all the elements of the popular online multiplayer game originally built as an add-on for Half-Life. While the version of Counter-Strike available online requires a copy of Half-Life, this standalone version contains the Half-Life engine on the CD-ROM. The team-based gameplay divides players into terrorist or antiterrorist squads. Each team has access to different real-world ammunition and equipment, and all players have unique attributes plus the ability to upgrade their gear after completing missions. Missions have different goals, such as defusing a bomb or rescuing hostages. All the multiplayer maps and gameplay from the original Half-Life Multiplayer and Half-Life: Opposing Force Multiplayer are included, plus Team Fortress Classic. Half-Life: Counter-Strike also contains four new gameplay modes of Counter-Strike: firearms, wanted, ricochet, and redemption.

Product Description

Half-Life: Counter Strike lets you get armed and get online for some of the hottest Half-Life multiplayer gaming out there!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

68 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best mod, and soon to be game!, October 13, 2000

By 

JoLTeD - See all my reviews

This review is from: Half-Life: Counter-Strike (CD-ROM)

Snap that Unreal Tournament CD, cuz you'll never play it again! Counter-Strike is the most played online game ever, having more players than Quake3 and Unreal Tournament "combined", and boasting over 2000+ servers! It made the two year old Half-Life the most played game, but still, CS's playerbase is the largest!

Now, let's get into the game! It's a counter-terrorism game, allowing you to be a terrorist (T) or a counter-terrorist (CT), picking 4 different models per team, each having 144 realistic animations, you can see them reload for god sakes! You take part in realistic locations: Las Vegas, The Aztecs, Italy, The Middle-east, oil rigs, hotels, militia compounds, and many more! You are involved in many scenarios, such as bomb defusion (de_), where terrorists must plant a bomb in any of the two bomb points, where as CTs must eliminate the Ts, or defuse the bomb if planted to win. There is hostage rescue (cs_) where terrorists must hold hostages for a period of time and CTs must get the hostages and bring them to the rescue point, and, there is Assination (as_), where the terrorists must assassinate a VIP which is being escorted by the CTs to one of the two escape points. In all situations, eliminating the whole team will win the game, unless it's in a defuse situation and the bomb has been planted, the CTs must defuse it in time or the terrorists win.

You fight out with realistic weapons with highly detailed models such as the MP5, M4A1 Carbine, AK-47, a SEAL knife, 3 types of grenades, or a Glock 18. You get money to buy better weapons by killing enemies or completing certain tasks. You are able to hold only one primary, one secondary, one knife, and 4 grenades (with their own limits to certain types). You can also buy armor, defuse kits, or nightvision goggles.

Also, no more respawining in this game. Nope, you get killed, you go into "ghost" mode for the rest of the round, and must wait until a team wins until you play again in the next round. Take note that you can't withstand 50+ bullets, or pick up med kits. Nope, takes about 4-6 shots to die, and a headshot kills instantly.

Also, teamplay plays a big role in here. Run around like a wacko in Quake, you most certainly die. You can't run 50MPH like in most shooters, and a lot of times using stealth and taking cover plays a major role in succeeding. Also, using a handy radio very similar to that of Tribes will allow you to communicate with your teammates and give them orders, such as "Cover Me." or "Go! Go! Go!".

Well, the latest version is 7.1 Beta, the last beta probably. Go download this incredible mod, you will not regret it.

60 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get Addicted, March 12, 2001

By 

Daniel Dean (Myrtle Beach, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Half-Life: Counter-Strike (CD-ROM)

I hate to admit it, but this game has made me scream at my monitor so violently- my family thought I was insane! Its *that* intense.

Counter-strike is as competitive as any sport, and as nerve-wracking as a war. Prepare to think, react, and work as a team... your survival will depend upon it.

Created as a free add-on for the already legendary Half-Life, CS has quickly risen to claim the title of `most popular online action game' with a fan-base that easily dwarfs such big-budget names as Quake III and Unreal Tournament by staggering numbers!

Play as a terrorist or counter-terrorist as your team strives to complete its predetermined objectives- such as rescuing a group of hostages or planting a bomb. Based upon your success in these missions, you will be rewarded money to buy better guns, armor, and equipment at the start of each round. For unlike other first-person shooters, such things aren't spawned all over the place.

Buy smoke bombs to cover your movement. Throw flash grenades to blind your enemy. Control vast areas of the board with a sniper rifle. There are many different strategies -but play very carefully; because each player can only die once per round, and there are no `health packs' to be found. When you die, you simply wait and watch the other players until time runs out, or one of the two teams are victorious.

It all combines for an unforgettable game! Get addicted right away! If you have Half-Life already (And who doesn't?), than you can download this game for free. If not, then this bundle is truly worth your looking into, because as of right now- there is no better online game out there! What are you waiting for?

-Make sure you have a very fast connection however... Otherwise you will be taking a lot of dirt-naps. But every PC gamer should have a cable modem by now anyway!

58 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST. GAME. EVER. MADE. PERIOD. Repeat Ad Nausem., November 21, 2000

By 

Chris Peters (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Half-Life: Counter-Strike (CD-ROM)

Think I'm joking? Maybe this is all hype, and I'm just talking trash? Consider this: as we speak, more people are playing Counter-Strike on the Internet than all other 3D action games COMBINED. That includes Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, and Tribes. And it's been that way for months and months. The amazing thing is that Counter-Strike(CS) started out as just another free mod on the Web, created mostly by 1 person. CS is a grass-roots kinda movement, and it reached its popularity by word-of-mouth, and by simply being fun and addictive.

So if this is a free game, over a year old, than what exactly are you paying for? The original Half-Life is universally called the most entertaining and important game of the past 3 years. It was also made in such a way that anyone could add their own rules and artwork to it, and basically change the entire game. Thus, hundreds of "mods" (modifications) popped up, available for free on the Web. HL: Counter-Strike gives you access to these free mods without paying extra for the single-player parts. The best ones are included on the CD so you don't have to download them, including Team Fortress Classic, OpFor Deathmatch, and the insanely popular Counter-Strike. It's like getting 5 games in one. Also, if you play with a regular 56.6 modem, this game has a special network system that evens the odds against DSL and Cable modem users.

Of the 4 or 5 games included, Counter-Strike is on the cover for a reason - it is so unbelievably fun and addicting, it's almost like Tetris for 3D shooters. CS is very similiar to Rainbow Six, a Terrorist vs. Counter-Terrorist game, only CS never lets realism get in the way of fun (many people switch from R6 and never go back!). The matches are fast and exciting, and unlike other team-based games, CS makes working with total strangers necessary and obvious. You are REWARDED for working together, and quickly punished if you try to jump out by yourself. The maps take place in airports, mansions, Las Vegas, the Middle-east, warehouses - just about everywhere - and they are amazingly strategic and complex. What's more, CS has different types of matchs, like hostage rescue or assasination or bomb defusion, which change the entire pace of each match.

Buy this NOW. See what you've been missing.