I always like anything that is strange and out of the box (no friendo, I am not a fan of bondage and tentacle fetish even if they are out of the box and strange) And I also loves a game that just dare to be unique. One developer that I think always deliver its uniqueness very well is valve, the one that bring us the most loveable mute badass nerd ever, Gordon Freeman from half life series and so does games like left 4 dead 1 and 2, portal 2 and the undying counter strike series.
Valve might be well known for their half life series, but the first time I heard their name was in the counter strike. I first played counter strike when I am 12 or 14 years old and oh boy, that game is almost as addictive as heroin because I spent a lot of money playing it in internet café all day. Luckily, I didn’t go as far as prostituting myself to get the money to play it. The games fast, hard, challenging and very punishing for the man who sucks at gaming. But if you are a masochist who likes a challenge to master a game like I do, this game is a gem. After like 10 years, the series still go on with the new counter strike global offensive on its way and it’s proving that people’s still love this games.
So I am now going to talk about a counter strike game that most people didn’t know exist, especially if you’re not living in the awesome region of Asia like I do. This version of counter strike only playable for the Asians region like Japan, south Korea, China, Malaysia, Singapore, and the country where I lived, Indonesia. The games called counter strike online (CSO), and no I am not stupid. I know that counter strike can be played via online connection but that’s how they really named it. Yeah, It’s kinda retard to name it that way but who am I to complaint.
So far, the Indonesian CSO is still an infant game in the market. Not many peoples knew about the game and play it. But I think the game had a good prospect in the future and with an intensive update every week the game will expand more and it will be huge.
CSO itself is a free MMOFPS version of counter strike developed by the south Korean company called Nexon under the surveillance of valve. It had the original gameplay mechanic where you shoot till your enemies death and occasionally plant a bomb or saves hostages. But the game is given with extra tweak like new weapons, new maps, more characters where now you can play as a woman in counter strike (yay for feminism) and more mode like death match, team death match, zombie mode and scenario mode. Some items is locked by default so you will need a virtual cash that you can buy with real money or purchasing it with the game points that you can get by playing the games. The game is filled with contents and they were all great to play.
The new mode like The death match and team death match mode is pretty much a standard fps mode where all you need to do is kill enemies as much as you can to win and you can respawn right after you were killed. But the new one that is quite addictive to play is the zombie mode. The zombie mode is a polished version of the old counter strike fan made zombie mod where in every round some player will be chosen as the host zombie. The host zombie must spread the infection by attacking the human and turn them into zombie while the rest of the player must kill or survived from the zombie infection. I personally love this mode because it needs a tactic, practice and skill to master this mode. Sure, you can always do the sit, wait and shoot the zombie whenever it is in sight and you will still do quite well with that but if you wanna be the god of zombie mode there’s a lot of tactic and possibility that you may uncover to play in this mode like using melee weapon (which is the most dangerous yet satisfying way to kill zombie), mono y’ mono fight against zombies or hit and run tactic. And finally there is the zombie scenario mode where you must survive against wave of unlimited zombies as long as you can. Some of this scenario mode contains a boss battle again huge zombie that is very hard to kill. This mode is quite hard for the beginner because you will not succeed in your first try. You will be dead, a lot. This mode really emphasizes you to use teamwork, tactic and experience since there’s zero percentage to finish this all by yourself If you wanna be the lone hero. But after you go past the learning phase, you will find this mode really fun if you had a great team to play with. But if all you got is a bunch of A class social A-hole you might consider to buy a new monitor because I’m sure you will throw your monitor after playing the scenario mode with that kind of team.
The game isn’t perfect, sometime there could be a bug problem that could annoy you when you are playing. People flying in the air, guns had no sounds, a zombie that you can’t shoot or people going through the wall like a ghost thingy. But the strange thing is, sometime the bug can be used for your advantage and made the overall experience better. I’m not sure if the developer did that intentionally as a strangely deformed easter egg but as long as it makes the game fun I’ll go with it.
CSO isn’t a gentle game for beginner. The original counter strike itself is known for the unforgiving ‘noobs’ slayer game and I think the developer of CSO continues that tradition in their game. There’s a lot of thing that the newcomer must learnt and know before they can squish the fun out of the game or they might just give up and stop playing. Also, some of the game information might not be in the game. As example, how could I know that some knife can deal a deadly damage against zombie while other didn’t or how could I know that some guns can deal extra damage against zombie? Sure, you can still learn it from the internet but a beginner would find that annoying and confusing.
In conclusion, If you love counter strike and craving for more, this game is for you because it is the good ol’ counter strike that we knew and love with extra steroid injection to make it better. The hardcore fan of counter strike will feels right at home while the newcomer might find a lot of things to do and learn before they find the G-spot of this game.
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