| Counter-Strike Condition Zero | Turtle Rock / Ritual / Vivendi | 2004 | |
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Condition Zero is the long awaited singleplayer version of the most popular multiplayer online shooter Counter-strike. The 3-year development was carried out by 3 different developer studios or was botched. In Condition Zero your teammates and opponents are all bots who vary in skill, aggressiveness, choice of weapon, and tendency to cooperate with the rest of the team. Those with greater skill and more-powerful weapons cost more points to hire, but you'll earn points steadily as you make your way through the game's campaign. It offers 6 tours of duty with 3 maps each for a total of 18 missions. Most of the maps are from Counter-Strike's classic collection such as Dust, Aztec, and Italy but some have been tweaked a lot. Beating each map requires you to win at least three rounds against the terrorists, and you must be ahead of the terrorists by at least two successive wins while also completing a number of special challenges usually getting a certain total number of kills, getting kills with a specific weapon, rescuing hostages, and/or winning a round under a certain amount of time. The bot A.I. is usually very good and they can make complex tasks needed to carry out their mission. Your teammates communicate with you constantly by voice telling you where they are, what they're doing, and if they've spotted an enemy. Also included in the game are "deleted scenes" which actually is the single-player campaign that Ritual was working on before game development was handed off to Turtle Rock. These 12 missions have some nice scripted sequences and decent action but feel a bit outdated by the couple of years ago that they were made. Later Steam updates added six additional missions that were cut from the initial release. You can also play the classic multiplayer Counter-Strike with this game but all in all, it doesn't offer much new or worthwhile besides being able to play offline the classic game. | ||
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