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 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.

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

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 tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh " Gooseman " Le and Jess " Cliffe " Cliffe.

By the fourth beta version, Valve Software, the developer who created Half-Life, began assisting in the development of Counter-Strike.

In 2000, Valve bought the rights to Counter-Strike.

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 pits a team of terrorists against a team of counter-terrorists in a series of rounds.

As of August 2011, the Counter-Strike franchise has sold over 27 million units.

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.

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.

When Counter-Strike was published by Sierra Entertainment / Vivendi Universal Games, it was bundled with Team Fortress Classic, Opposing Force multiplayer, and the Wanted, Half-Life: Absolute Redemption and Firearms mods.

On March 24, 1999, Planet Half-Life opened its Counter-Strike section.

On June 19, 1999, the first public beta of Counter-Strike was released, followed by numerous further " beta " releases.

On April 12, 2000, Valve announced that the Counter-Strike developers and Valve had teamed up.

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 was originally played online through the WON gaming service, which was shut down in 2004, forcing players to switch to Steam.

The non-Steam version of Counter-Strike ( version 1. 5 ) can still be downloaded from sites such as FilePlanet.

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

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