Well in my own personal opinion this game is god compared to the rest of PC games. It doesnt matter how old you are are how expirienced you are in the field of FPS this game will entertain even the most complicated minds for hours with its sensless violence and blood shed. First off, this is a massive multiplayer online (MMO) FPS game. This is ran on steam, a base platform for many games that can be easily downloaded.
Counter Strike: Condition Zero was released in 2004 using the Half life engine as a source. CZ was ceated to be a follow up to counter strike 1.6 and has many of the same aspects, excpet for a couple major changes. One of the aspects that didn't really change too much is the movement of your character. Since the strafing and running hasnt changed since 1.6, CZ has been played more by previous 1.6 players. On the other hand one of the major and more important aspects that got changed was the shooting module. In 1.6 the recoil of most guns including the ever most popular AK-47 and M4 rifles was soft and easy to control hense the reason players became expert level easier and could participate in most of the CAL competitions (which is partly the reason why there are so many CAL levels for 1.6). In CZ the recoil for the AK-47 and M4 are incredibly different, much more powerful and harder to control but the damage done by both of these weapons remained the same. Side note: These two weapons are the most commonly used weapons, because of that, when and if you start playing you should become proficient with these first.
The AK-47 is the terrorist equal of the M4. This High powered rifle is the crazier one of the two. Even with its out of control recoil this is still a highly prefered weapon amongst the terrorist team. It requires either a controlled two shot burst or a perfectly aimed one shot round. With its high damage rate it out does the M4 by a long shot.
This is the counter Terrorist M4 assault rifle. This gun carries 30 rounds in the clip and can be used as a fair automatic rifle and a great 3 round burst rifle. This is the prefered weapon of the CT team and is best used in again, 3 burst shots. If you are someone who chooses to use it as an automatic rifle then best spot to aim for is the body becuase the recoil will make you hit the head at some point. Many people say that having the silencer on this weapon makes the aiming more controlled, this is true but it also kills the damage it deals a little bit. The best way to handle this weapon is with the silencer off.
There are two teams in this MMOFPS. The counter terrorist team and the terrorist team. Counter Terrorist are responible for the act of defusing a bomb or saving hostiges. those are the two major scenes that can be played. The terrorist are responsible for either planting the bomb on any of the two bomb sites (on some maps there can be 3) and keeping the hostages out of the counter terrorists hands. Beware if you kill a hostage you will get money deducted from your pocket, which means no good guns, which in the end means death :) Of course there is the most popluar type of server, The classic deathmatch. Its says it all in the name, you just run around killing the other team and try to get the most kills. I mentioned something before about the CAL competition system. Many people know about this already because it isnt only for CZ but ill explain it for those who dont know. CAL stands for Cyber Athlletic League which is a league of gamers who creates CAL team to compete against each other for ranking and bragging rights. Those teams who prove their worth go on to become possible players in the biggest gaming competition which is shown on TV.
So there is counter strike condition zero in a nutshell. If you have any questions or comments or even concerns please feel free to email me them and ill add them to this post as a section from live readers. :) Thank you and hope this helps.
