I was reading one of my favorite sites on the net that keeps me up-to-date on my favorite games company Valve Corporation. When I read the news, I was like wow cool I get to see some more content of an exciting new game that Valve is developing. That was cool by it self, a news article warrants a smile from me and imaginary thoughts of friends and I battling it out side by side in Left 4 Dead (New games I am talking about). That game will create events where friends and I will be able to share experiences laughter and sad times of loosing. All in all a great atmosphere and experience that us games become to crave when we look over the great times of laughter and joy whilst playing these games.
Now I look upon this news article and see 'Counter-Strike 2', my mind is sent into a craze. Imagine all the possibilities, not following? Counter-Strike has held the record for being the most played First Person Shooter for an extremal long time. This game I have been playing since 1997 on and off. Around 2005 Counter-Strike Source came out to the public. This was running off Valve's new game engine, this engine has revolutionized gaming for me! I can run around and look at the surrounding wall's / debris or models and say wow this graphics looks more than half decent and runs awesome! Not only that I can interact, a grenade explodes barrels fly away... woot physics. Countless hours of shooting barrels and saying w...ooo...w that's so cool, interacting with a virtual world that someone else has created and being able to manipulate things in this engine is definitely has an awesome factor to it. This is of course purely multilayer game based off Counter-Strike strongly, extremely fun.
Thus seeing this story of Counter-Strike 2 can only make me go ohh that's going to be awesome! I know the company when they make things they do it great, don't believe me. If you don't please at least research the Half-Life stories, even look at the art or Team Fortress 2. The amount of effort alone is amazing that this company can pour into a game development process. The fact that they could keep a series alive for so long and hold a massive development of a game secret from the whole entire gaming community for more than 4 years is just amazing. With a vague idea of how much fun and community atmosphere this company has produced I think you could imagine what the release of this game could mean, for me and so many others that I know or am connected through online communities or locally.
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Valve Logo: http://www.valvesoftware.com/
