ITGS Mod and Open Source Essay - Counter Strike game and Gimp photo editing.

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Timothy NP Situmeang

10 October 2012

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ITGS Mod and Open Source Essay

On the year 2000, the game counter strike was first launched. Counter strike is a tactical first-person shooting video game which is a modified version from Half life. The game counterstrike is more known than half life because it’s popularity in online gaming, before the existence of Point Blank or Call of Duty. Minh Le and Jess Cliffe created Counter strike the valve corporation then bought the rights because of its popularity. The first Counter strike is called Condition zero, Source and the latest version which was just released is Global Offensive.

        As a modified game from half life the difference between half life and counter strike is that in counter strike the game is separated into two sides, terrorist and counter terrorist unlike half life where you are a character. Each team will have different missions, for the terrorist their mission is to plant the bomb while for counter terrorist their mission is to deactivate the bomb, the team can also win by eliminating other players. The game contains different maps, and more available to download. Some people would say playing counter strike is more challenging than Call of Duty and Battlefield. The difference with this is that in counter strike, when you die, you die. You have to wait for the next round to play again. That is why in counter strike players tend to be a bit more careful and reflect on what happened when they die, because of course they want more play time than watching their team mates playing.

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With this kind of game play, it is well known for the multiplayer or online. While in half life the game is more into a story line like Call of Duty. The system requirements to play this game are:

it has to be a windows operating system with

500 MHz Processor

128 MB of RAM

32 MB graphics card

Internet connection (for online)

Keyboard and Mouse

As you can see the system requirements is not high and almost all computers with windows can play this game. Since the first version counter strike does not have satisfying graphics, they improved by ...

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