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A solid online experience for Xbox owners, and a good time waster.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well, we all know how big of an impact the original Counter-Strike left on PC gaming. Even with Counter-Strike: Source available, there's still a fair amount of people that play the original. So its really no surprise they decided to bring it to consoles, and of course the one closest to a PC, the Xbox.

The graphics are fine. There are really nothing special, but they're tolerable and get the job done. It's pretty much just a direct port of the original PC version, although i personally think it may even look a little better on the Xbox. It does have solid performance though, no frame-rate or pop-in issues.

The sound work is pretty basic. The only music really is for the title screen, and the only voice work is short sayings they put in just in case you don't own a mic. The explosions and gun effects all sound good, but once again, it's an old game so it's not exactly competitive with some more modern games in terms of sound quality.

The game-play is where Counter-Strike generates most of it's critical acclaim. it holds together surprisingly well on consoles. Obviously most people would rather be using a mouse and keyboard to play this game, but the Xbox controller works just fine. You can play on Xbox Live with your buddies to have a good amount of fun. If you don't have Live this game is pretty useless, although you can still waste time playing around with cpu controlled characters. Honestly though, this game is such a better experience on PC with mouse and keyboard and mods and such, you should really just go with that version, or better yet, go download Counter-Strike: Source off steam, it even runs on my old Dell Dimension.

This is a decent multi-player experience online for your Xbox, but you're better off playing Halo or Ghost Recon, or the PC version of this game. You can probably find this game for really cheap though, and generate a couple fun afternoons from it.

CounterSUCK

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I think I waited too long to buy this game. A non-Halo playing fan of CounterStrike said I should play it. Man.....it ain't Halo. It was a lame time killer. I guess once you have played such as Halo 2 and 3, Gods of War, Crackdown you really can't expect to a game made that long ago to compare. Dissappointed but, at the time maybe this game was cutting edge.

Save Trouble and dont buy this.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am in the same boat of several other people whos Parents dont buy me whatever I want and havent got a 360 yet or xbox live (bad internet connection). Since they quit making xbox games I am desperatly trying to find some old games that even thogh have bad grafics are still prety good. Well this is not what I was looking for here are the pro and cons.

PRO-You get to shoot terrorists.

CONS-horrid grafics(guys get stuck in mid air, guns look fake, blood cornily flies everywere especialy w. a handgun.)
-There is no storymode(you just go to places and try to beat the terorists the best of five times)
-just overall stupid.

Im sure it might be good on line but I dont know what about that could make it better.

Very Difficult to Play

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My son tells me this is so difficult that he does not want to play it. He has a lot of games.

sons new friend

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

my sons like this game very much. and it keeps them out of my hair

a classic which doesn't hold up

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Counter-Strike was or maybe still is, according to wikipedia, the most popular FPS played over the internet. Either it must be free, or people have never seen Halo.

Made by Valve (makers of Half-Life -- an infinitely better game) using a modified Quake engine. It's basically a multiplayer-based tactical shooter a lot like Rainbow Six, which looks and also is, infinitely better. Many of the weapons and items in CS are also used in Rainbow Six...

This game is ugly, flat, colorless and lifeless. It's also frustrating. A couple hits and you're dead and you then you must sit there and wait until the other players are dead or the game is over...There really isn't much to this game.

If you want good multiplayer for the xbox or 360, get Halo, Halo2, or Unreal Tournament (a multiplayer-based game). These games have many more options, are more fun, and just plain look better.

If you want a good game made by Valve for the xbox or 360, play Half-Life2 until the OrangeBox comes out.

And if you want to play something that feels like CS for the xbox or 360, play Rainbow Six 3 or Rainbow Six Vegas.

And lastly, if you want to play a cornball crappy looking multiplayer game like this, but have a lot more maps and weapons, try Red Faction II. It's not very good either, but at least not as bad as this...

Counter-Strike

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game , the kids love it. I even found it to be entertaining because of it's realism.

like it better than the pc version

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i bought this game the very first week it came out, knowing nothing about it, and i love it. this game has average graphics, fast gameplay, and smooth easy to remember controls. it is not all that great on single player, but to bring out the up most fun in this game, you would need x box live. this is one of the best first person shooters today. just as good as halo, halo 2 in my opinion.

only a couple of games out there are worth buying for 60$, and this was one of them.

this is better than the pc version just because there is no lag. :) lol

BUY OR DIE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I could write a lengthly reveiw but I'll be breif. Short of halo 2, this is the best xbox live game out. BUY or DIE!

A Classic, must-have for xbox!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is unbelievable. It is, after over two years still one of the most popular games for xbox and when you play xbox live, you can always be sure to find players online. That is an example of how good this game is. Two years!!!!!

This game has a wide variety of weapons, which consist of mostly guns, but also grenades, and a knife. The single-player, while not great, is good enough, and the xbox live is very, very good. Be a terrorist or counter-terrorist and participate in missions (whether its rescuing hostages for the counter-terrorists, or bombing a specific site as a terrorist) in more than 20 maps in both single and multiplayer modes.

Definitely buy this game if you have xbox live.

If you don't i would still consider it.

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