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Counter Strike: Global Offensive tries to emerge from the meteor sized shadows of the original 2000 Counter Strike and the 2004 Source follow up. It aims to satisfy the (often vocal) CS community, while also pulling in as many casual players as possible.

It's fair to say that developers Hidden Path and Valve have, to some extent, have succumbed to peer pressure in trying to fulfil these goals.

This could have been an altogether new experience in the Counter-Strike collection. It is not. Global Offensive is the same step up that Counter Strike Source was from the original 1.6 version. This is not a fully fledged sequel with oodles of new content and dozens of never seen before elements. This is Counter Strike: Source with new visuals and gameplay tweaks.

Counter Strike makes you work to enjoy the content, and you'll have to put many hours of play into it before enjoying the feeling of conquering it.

Weapons are a huge part of the series too, with CS:GO not an exception. Each round provides a cash sum based on your previous performance, and with this you can purchase armour, projectiles and weapons. Firearms range from standard assault rifles to shotguns and sniper rifles, and you'll want to experiment with each one to see which works best.

What makes Counter Strike such a popular series and what will no doubt make CS:GO the next big PC shooter is the thrill of the ego chase. As you die, often continuously, the frustration is outweighed by an aspiration to do better. In a game where success is pinned on attention to detail, death often triggers an internal failure analysis that the player will mull over while waiting for a new session to load. It becomes a spiral of egging yourself on to do better - and if you become a good player, the game becomes a stage for you to parade your skills.

Especially at long range, it takes a little more effort and squinting than it should to tell if I’m hitting someone or not. And counterintuitively, bullet tracers, new in this version of CS, are an unreliable source of feedback. They seem to trail the path of your actual bullet by a few microseconds. With rifles and SMGs, my eyes would wander away from my enemy and crosshairs what I should be watching and try to interpret where my bullets were falling based on the slightly delayed, streaky particle effects. The small upside to tracers is that they mitigate camping a bit.