Next Gen Console, PC, and Mac Release Targeted for Early 2012
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO).
Targeted for release via Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and Steam (for PC and Mac) in early 2012, CS: GO will expand upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched exactly 12 years ago (CS beta 1, August 1999).
CS: GO features new maps, characters, and weapons and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust, etc.). In addition, CS: GO will introduce new gameplay modes, matchmaking, leader boards, and more.
"Counter-Strike took the gaming industry by surprise when the unlikely MOD became the most played online PC action game in the world almost immediately after its release in August 1999," said Doug Lombardi at Valve. "For the past 12 years, it has continued to be one of the most-played games in the world, headline competitive gaming tournaments and selling over 25 million units worldwide across the franchise. CS: GO promises to expand on CS' award-winning gameplay and deliver it to gamers on the PC as well as the next gen consoles and the Mac."
CS: GO is being developed by Valve in cooperation with Seattle-based Hidden Path Entertainment. The title is targeted for release in early 2012 and will be playable at this year's PAX Prime and London Games Festival.
Images:
Comparison De_Dust CSS/CS:GO:
Alpha counterterrorist model (Seal-6 class?):
Trailer:
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Gameplay Dust
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Re: COUNTER-STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE (CS: GO) announced
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:40 pm
by LivingWithGames
Valve did announce this,indeed but,the fraking question.NOT EVEN A HL2EP3 UPDATE WHATSOEVER? WHY?!
Re: COUNTER-STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE (CS: GO) announced
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:56 am
by Sakhan
I don't get your waiting of HL2EP3 because it's fraking obvious that they don't wanna announce it.
Maestro,add my money too,I don't believe that they gonna change something,but I suppose there is one thing added - hat system
Re: COUNTER-STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE (CS: GO) announced
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:01 am
by Undernet10
Valve has a pretty good reason on why they won't announce EP3/HL3. It's obvious they're improving the Source Engine to compare it to modern FPS engines. Source is outdated compared to them nowadays.
I just don't see how another Counter-strike can be made, the gameplay of it is too solid. CS: GO seems more of a re-hash of the CS:S Beta simplified to go on the consoles with some changes. But as of right now, we don't know much about it, so what I'm saying are my speculations.
Re: COUNTER-STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE (CS: GO) announced
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:07 pm
by Gary
Undernet10 wrote:Valve has a pretty good reason on why they won't announce EP3/HL3. It's obvious they're improving the Source Engine to compare it to modern FPS engines. Source is outdated compared to them nowadays.
Bungie created two gaming engines and a game in this time. Both very good graphically and in terms of a game engine. It doesn't take very long to throw in a few graphical features into a established modular game engine like Source. Hell, a modder(BioHazard) has already added very impressive features to the 2007 branch of the Source. Valve is just extremely slow at adding nowadays-level rendering features(except of course their facial animation).
I'm thinking the same thing that happen to the original HL2 is happening to EP3; they decided to scrap the game half way through.
Re: COUNTER-STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE (CS: GO) announced
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:34 am
by MaestraFénix
The next week will be published the first images:
The keys to access the beta will be given out at Pax or the Eurogamer Expo:
Re: COUNTER-STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE (CS: GO) announced
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:44 pm
by DisConnected
BiElGaMe wrote:Valve did announce this,indeed but,the fraking question.NOT EVEN A HL2EP3 UPDATE WHATSOEVER? WHY?!
Valve can't count to 3.
Re: COUNTER-STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE (CS: GO) announced
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:04 am
by LivingWithGames
DisConnected wrote:
BiElGaMe wrote:Valve did announce this,indeed but,the fraking question.NOT EVEN A HL2EP3 UPDATE WHATSOEVER? WHY?!
Valve can't count to 3.
I forgot this.Shit.
Re: COUNTER-STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE (CS: GO) announced
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 8:44 am
by MaestraFénix
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If this is true, it will confirm my suspicion: CS:GO it will be the "western" and updated version of CS:O (Online), because is the same trailer but with different name at the end.
In the end my old "comrade" will be have right XD
EDIT: FAKEEEEE
Re: COUNTER-STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE (CS: GO) announced
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:15 pm
by JerC
That would just be stupid as hell if all they added was all you said. If it was I would'nt think it would be released in 2012..
Re: COUNTER-STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE (CS: GO) announced
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:07 pm
by MaestraFénix
This thursday, or directly this weekend, it will showed a trailer.
Hope that shows the gameplay and not a render/Source film.
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