1, the counter-terrorism elite CS, is probably the most familiar FPS (first-person shooter) game in China, and there is no one. CS, formerly known as anti-terrorist elite, is similar to counterattack and refers to defensive counterattack. This word can be used for counterattacks in football and fighting.
In 2000, Taiwan Province Songgang Science and Technology Agency translated CS, and translated the Chinese name into Absolute Force, which is now the ugly name of CSonline in Taiwan Province Province. The name "anti-terrorist elite" is summed up by everyone from the game mechanism, and there is no clear official source.
2. Like the aforementioned Red Alert, CS has developed from a secondary position to an independent game series. The Red Alert was originally established as an information piece of Command and Conquest 1. The starting point of CS is even lower: at first, it was just a mod of the FPS game "Half-Life" by V al v e (Villefort Software Company).
Half-life is considered to be one of the best games played by human beings. I will tell the story about Half-Life and V Club separately in the future.
The original author of CS is Jesse Cliff of Li Minghe, and Li Ming is a Vietnamese from Canada. He was born in Canada since childhood. 1996, he spent a year making a mod named SEAL for Thor Hammer with id software. This is the first mod he made, and it is also the spiritual prequel of CS.
3. After completing the mod of SEALs in 1997, Li Ming began to make mod for the hammer of Raytheon 2, and at that time he formed the whole concept of CS. During this period, he got to know Jesse Cliff, the administrator of Hammer of Thor 2. They hit it off and started making mod together.
1998165438+10, the half-life was officially put on sale. They saw its potential and decided to realize CS on the basis of half-life instead of the hammer of Raytheon 2. On March 24th, 1999, they set up a CS zone on PHL(Planet half-life) website, and within two weeks, the number of hits reached 10000. 1June 99919th, the first public beta version of CS was opened to the public.
4. In the beta version of CS 1.0, there are only nine kinds of weapons, four maps to rescue hostages and two camps: T is the Irish Republican Army, which was later the Phoenix Warrior; CT is the sixth team of SEALs. These two refugee camps are still in CSGO. They are the oldest refugee camps. Beta 4.0 updated the most commonly used bomb disposal mode, and updated two maps, nuke and dust, which are still very popular at present.
It was from the test of version 4.0 that more and more people began to pay attention to CS, and V Society began to provide support for two developers. In April 2000, V officially hired two developers and obtained the copyright of CS. In September, 2000, 13, CS released the last beta version: Test 7. 1, followed by the official version of CS on 10/8, 2000.
5.CS 1.0 attracted favorable comments from all parties as soon as it was released. Although this game has no single story at all, its excellent feel and emphasis on team competition have made all critics give almost perfect comments. V club has always maintained a fine tradition of continuously updating and maintaining online games. From 1.0 to 1.6, it was updated six times, and the iconic dust2 map was added to the game in the version of 1. 1
Of course, in fact, the update of CS by V Club lasted until August 20 13, but after 2003, all the upgrades were made by steam, and no clear version distinction was used, so most China players are familiar with CS 1.5 and CS 1.6. The CS 1.6 version is used in most competitions in the world, which strengthens the impression that players think that CS 1.6 is the final version.
6. After the success of CS1.6, V Society began to further develop CS series, but the development of sequels went wrong. CS Zero Action was developed by Rogue Company in 2000, and officially announced in E3 (Electronic Entertainment Exhibition, known as "the annual Olympic Games of the electronic entertainment industry") in 200 1 year, but it was also in 200 1 year that Rogue Company's boss was dug up by Sony and the company announced its dissolution.
Subsequently, Gearbox took over the development of Zero. For the first time, they added single-player campaign and AI system to CS series, which became a very unique work in the series. However, at the end of 2002, CS Zero was still unfinished, and the development was handed over to Ritual. Li added 20 single-player tasks to the game and strengthened AI. In 2003, the game began to be sold, but the comments were general.
V club will go back to the furnace and do it again immediately. This time, Guiyan (the company that develops the road to survival) is responsible for the development. When the game was finally released, the version of Guiyan was used, and the version of ritual music was bundled into deleted scenes.
7. In 2004, the origin engine of V Society was developed. The origin engine was originally intended to be used in Fortress 2. However, due to problems in development, Fortress 2 came out later than half-life 2. In order to fill the vacancy, V Society decided to reset the original CS with the origin engine, and Guishi was responsible for the development. This is the origin of CS.
As an excessive product, CS: S has performed well, but what V really cares about is CSGO in 20 12 years. Initially, CSGO was developed as the Xbox360 version of CS: S, but after seeing its potential, V Club decided to turn it into a brand-new game.
CSGO 2065 438+00 started research and development, and was officially released on 20 12. It became one of the most popular games as soon as it was released. Almost all the media gave a near-perfect evaluation, and it also won several annual e-sports game awards.
8. E-sports is one of the reasons why CS can last for a long time. Although the game competition was very popular in the United States in the 1980s, it was generally limited to offline arcade competitions, and CS achieved a transnational and worldwide competition for the first time. In 2004, the first CS professional alliance appeared in the United States: ESEA. Launched in 2006, IEM is the first global e-sports competition.
China's e-sports road is also closely related to CS. The glory of wNv seems to be still in sight. In the ranking of the world team in May 2006, wNv was once the first position. However, the current CS e-sports circle is a bit embarrassing. Semphis, veteran and tactical commander of C9 team, revealed that almost all CS players are taking ADDERALL, which was originally used to treat ADHD, which can make people concentrate and speed up their reaction.
9. The most unique feature of 9.CS series is that it has grown up completely from the player group. It can be said that it is the best embodiment of "everyone for me and everyone for me". The first two authors are typical. They do everything in the game. The voices heard by the players were recorded by Cliff himself, and it was not until CSGO hired a professional voice actor.
Moreover, almost all the maps come from the player community. Dust and Dust 2 both come from david Johnston. Behind the CT refresh point of dust2, you can see the words dedicated to Justin De Jung by using the free viewing angle function. Derong made a map of siege. In addition, due to the characteristics of the player group, there are many eggs in the game. For example, in CSGO, you will see a robot named Gabe (gabe newell, CEO of V Society, known as "G Fat").
10. Finally, what is the relationship between CSonline and CS? All the games mentioned above can be regarded as the main series of CS. In addition, CS has four derivative games authorized by V Club:
"CSNeo" is an arcade version of CS made by the Japanese, and its painting style and background are aimed at the Japanese.
The series of "CSOL" and "CSNexon: Zombies" produced by Korean manufacturer Nexon (yes, DNF, a go-kart company) after being authorized by V Society, mainly focus on free games and in-game purchases, aiming at the Asian market.
The derivative series game V club did not participate in the production, but V club provided some technical support. Which one? It's the internal purchase part. The shopping system in CSOL series games uses the customized backend of steam, so G Fat never lacks ways to make money.
Nowadays, people often compare playing games to taking drugs. If the watch pioneer is mild marijuana, then CS is highly pure. Purifying the core experience of FPS is definitely a game worth collecting. At present, steam has a complete set of four games in the CS series, which is worth as long as 98 pieces.