CS is a team-based multiplayer where one team plays the terrorists and the other team plays the counter-terrorists. The opposing teams battle each other on urban maps while trying to achieve goals with modern day weaponry. With each round averaging from three to five minutes, weapons are purchased at the start of the game from a list that range from pistols, sub-machine guns, sniper rifles and flash-bang grenades. But instead of being able to easily pick out your guns and accessories at the start of every round, each player has to first earn money by killing the opponnent, winning rounds, rescuing hostages and so on before being able to afford the weapons of choice. The game keeps track of all the rounds and ranks each player by their number of kills and deaths in the game, pushing each player to do their best to be at the top.
CS can be
acquired in two ways. First, you can purchase the Half-Life game and then
download the CS mod off the Internet for free. This way you can have both
Half-Life and CS. The other way is to purchase CS as a retail version,
meaning that it doesnt require you to have the Half-Life game. With todays high performance cards and blistering processors, programmers are able to design extremely detailed and realistic environments for games such as CS, setting new standards for future first person shooter (FPS) multiplayer games. CS is supported on all APIs: 3dfx miniGL, OpenGL, and Direct3D, giving you the ability to experience improved 3D models, fantastic animation, and smooth game play that meets todays standard definition of 3D gaming. Inside the games options menu, users are able to specify which API they want use depending on their operation system and video card. Most cards support Direct3D and OpenGL, other cards like 3dfx cards are supported by miniGL, which operates similar to OpenGL. What are APIs and whats the difference? APIs are methods that programmers use to design and harness the power of hardware acceleration to thrust games into the realm of professional-quality rendering, texture mapping and special effects. Differences between the two: Direct3D runs only on Windows operating systems and OpenGL is a cross-platform for other operating systems like Linux and MAC. Having the latest API drivers will definitely help solve display errors and improving game play. Here are
a few common problems gamers experience when trying to play the game. Systems may
sometimes crash back to the desktop or even lock-up Cannot achieve
any faster frame rates in the game |