Meanwhile, the Classic mode will feature several familiar maps such as Dust and Inferno. And you quickly pick up on how it works." "It's like basketball, where you make place calls about what you're going to try to do, 'we're going to sweep right', or 'we'll come through this entrance' it all happens really fast.
"At Valve, we've seen that it's all really quick," says Faliszek. It's all about securing the best positions within the house as soon as possible, with four terrorists gaining an over-watch of the exterior and the staircases, allowing the guy with the explosives to plant 'em in peace.
The terrorists have to get the bomb to a room on the first floor of the house, and there are several entry points, including via a boathouse at the bottom, as well as through the building and up via an external staircase. Indeed, I played the Lake map, which features a lakehouse and a semi-built property next door, all condensed within a confined area of flat grassland, boasting a couple of rocky outcrops for cover. These maps are so tight, you're really quickly into the action. If you play the classic map Dust, those guys know where to stand, where to fight – so we removed that advantage from Arsenal. "You can almost see the enemy from the get-go, so it's not about map knowledge, which is usually an advantage to veterans. "The maps are really small," says Faliszek. The Arsenal mode also features its own new maps, which are designed – perhaps with a slight nod toward Modern Warfare - for tight, fast play. So if you're not getting kills in the early rounds it's going to end up as you with an AK-47 versus a guy with a knife."įaliszek sees this as a leveller – a way of appealing to new players, without necessarily adding a lot of eye-catching fresh features from contemporary titles. "You're not buying weapons before rounds, you start with the best weapons and then you degrade, based on how well you're doing. "This mode really simplifies the game," says Chet Faliszek. Interestingly, though, CS:GO reverses the usual arms escalation – here, you downgrade after every kill, working your way from assault rifle, through the P90, the shotgun and the Desert Eagle pistol and on to the lowly knife. Arsenal comes in two flavours, Arms Race, where it's just about taking out the enemy and Demolition, where there's an objective to complete. Based around the popular CS mod, Gun Game, players are given a better weapon after every kill, instead of purchasing equipment at the beginning of every round as in the classic CS format. The big new addition, perhaps, is the Arsenal mode. If you've grown up on Call of Duty, boy, are you going to struggle.
If you played Counter-Strike a lot five years ago, the muscle memory will exert itself within minutes. There is no down-the-sights aiming: hitting left trigger merely puts your character into a slightly lowered aiming stance. There are no re-spawns if you're hit, you watch the rest of the game as a spectator (unless you have bots on your side, in which case you can choose to take over one of those). The scores are added up for the overall winner. In every session, teams play five rounds as terrorists and five as counters. One side has an objective it must complete, the other has to kill all the enemy operatives before they get to carry it out. Players get into two teams of five – terrorists vs counter-terrorists. Well, having played a demo at last week's Xbox Spring Showcase event, I can say it's a mix, definitely a mix – but the mix is weighed hugely in favour of the past. And the big quandary is – do they go with the classic CS feel and appease hardcore fans at the expense of a mainstream audience, or do they make concessions to modernity and start adding stuff like sprinting, iron sight aiming and crawling around on the floor? The game is being developed in conjunction with Hidden Path, the co-developer of 2004's CS re-build, Counter-Strike Source.
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Then last year, Valve announced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a new take on the series for Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and PC.
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