Counter-Strike is probably a name that any gamer, even if they don't play, must know. Its popularity is undisputed, it would not even be an exaggeration to say that this blockbuster created a new direction for the FPS genre in the development history of the world gaming industry. Recently, on the occasion of Counter-Strike's 25th anniversary, Valve personally posted a congratulatory message: “Happy 25th birthday to the best video game ever created, Counter-Strike Strike”.
For those who don't know, Counter-Strike is a Half-Life mod originally developed by Minh “Gooseman” Le – a Vietnamese-Canadian game producer – who is considered the “father” of the series. this famous game. Before Counter-Strike, Minh built many different mods for Quake but then, with Valve releasing the GoldSrc development kit, it took him about a month and a half to program Counter's “beta one”. -Strike. The first beta of the game was then released on June 19, 1999. This was followed by a series of other updated versions and gradually the project became so large that it attracted attention from Valve.
Then the rest is history. Valve purchased the Counter-Strike IP and hired both of its creators in September 2000. Since then, Counter-Strike has seen many different versions of the game such as Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (2004); Counter-Strike: Source (2004); Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012); and Counter-Strike 2 (2023). It's all based on the gameplay style that has been largely established since the original version. Until now, Counter-Strike 2 is still the game with the largest number of players on Steam.
25 years since its first launch, until now Counter-Strike is still a “forever young” brand and can even be considered the flagship of the FPS gaming industry. This is also a part of the childhood of Vietnamese gamers in the 8-9x period with the name Half-Life becoming an immortal monument.
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