The History of Counter-Strike

How CS went from nothing to our most-played online title

Words: GamesRadar US
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Beta 1.0

Started by Minh Le, a modeller from the Quake 2 editing community, the first version was only about 10Mb in size. It contained four maps and nine weapons, and tasked teams with defending or rescuing a group of hostages.

Notable Addition
AWP, MP5, M4A1, cs_siege

Did you know?
Cs_siege was originally designed as a Team Fortress Classic map for a PC Gamer US competition. Seven years later, it’s the only map from the first release to pass the test of time.

 
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