
Description
I've determined that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is from another dimension. It's a game that doesn't need to exist. PC gamers (thousands of them, according to SteamGraph ) are perfectly served by Counter-Strike: Source and CS 1.6 , content with the decade-something of tuning and attention those games have received.
But here's GO: full of doppelganger Desert Eagles and de_dust dé,jà, vu, quantum-leaping from some parallel timeline whose game industry briefly intersected with ours. Playing it is like running into a college crush at the supermarket. You immediately notice differences. Oh, you're married? Your hair looks different. But that experience of reconnecting is pleasantthey're mostly still the person you admired during geology.
In other words, GO's familiarity helps and hurts. Minor deviations from the CS you might've known or loved are easy to identify.
Developer: Valve, Hidden Path Entertainment
Publisher: Valve
Release Date: 21 Aug, 2012
Genre: Shooter, Action, Strategy
System Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows® 7/Vista/XP
- Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 processor or better
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Video card must be 256 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 3.0
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 15 GB available space