The recently announced Counter Strike: Global Offensive will probably feel just a bit familiar to fans of Counter Strike: Source and Counter Strike 1.6. After all, as Valve writer Chet Faliszek told gaming news blog Kotaku, Global Offensive will be taking alot of its cues from those two popular Counter-Strike incarnations.

"A lot of Counter-Strike: GO is taking Counter-Strike: Source and Counter-Strike 1.6 and melding it into a product that every side likes and also expanding the base by putting it out on the consoles," he said.

Originally intended to replace the now-classic Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike: Source met some heavy opposition from the former's fanbase. A large community has since formed around the latter, however, and now Valve seeks to bring these two disparate fanbases together with the release of Global Offensive. Instead of broadening Global Offensive's appeal, however, Valve is trying to do that by zeroing in the competitive experience.

"Counter-Strike: GO has this kind of objective of homing in," project lead Ido Magal explained to Kotaku. "We're taking that competitive experience that's very hard to organize in Counter-Strike: Source... We've taken that and let everyone experience the fun of a five-on-five [game] where everyone is equally matched. The product doesn't span all of Counter-Strike. Counter-Strike is zombie mods and all these different things. This is more narrow."

I passed on Counter-Strike: Source and I still have nightmares of constantly getting knifed to death in Counter-Strike 1.6, but I'm looking forward to seeing what new things Valve has added in Global Offensive. One thing that's not changing, though, is the franchise's focus on player skill. "A small difference in skill between two players, the impact of that on the game will be accentuated," Magal said. "My experience in other games is that's not the case."

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is due out on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 early next year.

Via [Kotaku]

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