Counter-Strike is a notable exception, in that the player models are seen externally to fire akimbo Berettas from the hip, but appear to be firing from shoulder level from the first-person perspective.

Counter-Strike is a first-person shooter in which players join either the terrorist team, the counter-terrorist team, or become spectators.

Though Counter-Strike is itself a mod, it has developed its own community of script writers and mod creators.

The name or abbreviation " 1. 6 " is often used to differentiate it from the newer version Counter-Strike: Source.

However, the original Counter-Strike is still available and played by many people via Steam, as the two variants are quite different, and players inevitably prefer one variant over the other.

Counter-Strike Online is available in South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and Indonesia, and is now fully online.

News sources originally stated that Seung-Hui Cho only played the game in high school, however no video games whatsoever were found in the gunman's dorm room, and there is no evidence that he ever played Counter-Strike.

It is reported that Kazmierczak did play Counter-Strike in college.

Counter-Strike which is a Half-Life mod allows user to create their own and tag in game.

In round-based games such as Counter-Strike or Call of Duty 2 there has been much debate on what is defending and what is camping.

Among popular mods, none is more well known than the Half-Life multiplayer mod Counter-Strike, which was released shortly after the original game, and upwards of 1 million games per day are hosted on dedicated servers.

Counter-Strike is probably the best example of a modification that turns into a retail game.

New World Order is an online team-based tactical first-person shooter video game, similar to Counter-Strike.

In computer gaming the term is usually used to refer to a person highly skilled in multiplayer games like StarCraft, Warcraft III ( RTS / RPG-DotA ), Diablo II ( RPG ), Counter-Strike ( FPS ) and others.

It is also used in computer games that don't allow Russian typing in chat, particularly Counter-Strike.

It is a well-known phenomenon within the games Counter-Strike and its sequel, and F. E. A. R.

Eurogamer echoed criticism on the game's length ; reviewer Tom Bradwell commented that " although I'm hard pressed to criticize what you get, the complete absence of everything we've learnt from the likes of Counter-Strike and everything since is frankly bizarre ".

* Counter-Strike, is a tactical first-person shooter video game.

Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror is an online multiplayer computer game with similar gameplay to Counter-Strike.

Tactical Ops is generally considered a combination of gameplay features of Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament.

Counter-Strike: Source ( officially abbreviated CSS ) is an FPS video game developed by Valve Corporation.

It is a complete remake of Counter-Strike using the Source game engine.

* Counter-Strike, a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation

* Counter-Strike: Source ( CS: S ), an online first-person shooter computer game

There are also the Superhero and Warcraft III mods which mix the first-person gameplay of Counter-Strike with an experience system, allowing a player to become more powerful as they continue to play.

Raven Shield moved toward mainstream first-person shooters like Counter-Strike, adapting various features absent in previous versions.

Counter-Strike: Source is a remake of Counter-Strike, and retains its team-based objective-oriented first-person shooter style gameplay.

This gameplay feature distinguishes Counter-Strike from other first-person shooter games, where players respawn instantly or after a short delay.

The term " griefing " dates to the late 1990s, when it was used to describe the willfully antisocial behaviors seen in early massively multiplayer online games like Ultima Online and first-person shooters such as Counter-Strike.

Some prominent examples of this include fighting games such as Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs. Capcom 3, sports games such as NBA 2K11, strategy video games such as Warcraft 3 and StarCraft, older online games such as the Sega Meganet titles, and particularly first-person shooters such as Battlefield 2, Halo 3, Counter-Strike, Quake 3, Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops.

* de_dust, one of the original maps in the online multiplayer first-person shooter Counter-Strike

Counter-Strike faced controversy in April 2007 when Jack Thompson, now a disbarred attorney from Florida, predicted that the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech Massacre had been trained to kill in the game, well before Seung-Hui Cho ( the shooter ) was identified.

Movie Battles II or MBII is a team-based, last man standing multiplayer mod of the shooter game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy inspired by the popular first person shooter Counter-Strike.

** Counter-Strike Online, 2008 video game

* November — Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 are officially released on PC around the world, bringing in a new era for the First Person Shooter genre of video game, with advanced graphics & physics.

* Counter-Strike " C1 ", a slang expression from the video game, used to express agreement

On August 18, 2004, the beta was released to owners of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and those who had received a Half-Life 2 voucher bundled with some ATI Radeon video cards.

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero ( CZ or CS: CZ ) is a multiplayer video game and the follow-up to Counter-Strike.

This phrase can often be heard in war-related video games, such as Counter-Strike, Far Cry, Battlefield 2, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty, CrossFire, Point Blank, SOCOM II: U. S. Navy SEALs, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Mass Effect 2, Postal 2, and others.

The game has been expanded into a series since its original release, which currently includes Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike: Source, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Counter-Strike received a major technology update and refresh on November 1, 2004 with the release of Counter-Strike: Source, which was heavily updated using Valve's Source game engine to take advantage of more modern graphics and audio hardware.

On August 12, 2011, it was confirmed that a new Counter Strike game was in development at Valve Software and Hidden Path Entertainment, which also codevelops Counter-Strike: Source, going under the title Global Offensive.

The New York Times reported that E-Sports Entertainment ESEA League started the first professional fantasy e-sports league in 2004 around the game of Counter-Strike.

* Vostok, an Xbox-exclusive map to the game Counter-Strike

Half-Life: Counter-Strike, a mod of Half-Life ( 1998 ), was the most popular multiplayer game of its era.

* Counter-Strike: Source, a 2004 complete remake of Counter-Strike using Source ( game engine ).

* Counter-Strike, a modification of the computer game Half-Life.

Originally made to be a team-play game ( much like Counter-Strike, but with added action movie realism ), The Specialists soon evolved into a death-match game with action movie realism.