
While the graphics and polish have seen continual improvement with Counter-Strike, the gameplay is pretty much the same. Later iterations of the game went through two engines selling millions of units in all, and both the free betas and commercial follow-ups are considered classic tactical shooters. Created by a team of fellow gamers lead by Minh Le (“Gooseman”), Counter-Strike is an everyman’s riff on the in-your-face tactical team shooter, minus the complexities of waypoints or mission planning.

Initially born as a popular free multiplayer mod for Half-Life and later co-opted by Sierra, the wildly successful Counter-Strike saw its first retail release as version 1.0. The king of all online tactical shooters.

The P90 SMG packs a good rate of fire, but spreads too much for it to be effective here.
