What Made Counter Strike A Great Esport

Counter Strike is among the top e-Sports of all time with its game title even popular among the people with no interest in e-Sports gaming. From inception of Counter Strike in 2000 for Half Life, there has been a variation in aesthetics, but the core of unobtrusive gun-play of this game remains intact. This feature attracts the players and viewers to this hardcore competitive shooter game.

Counter Strike has an exceptional execution of Terrorist and Counter Terrorist with a match based on goals. It requires strategy, pure skills and teamwork with no health regeneration and no persistent unlocks for equipment. The game will remain intense watching the surviving members even if you die in a round. Other players of the team need to come up with a new strategy after the death of a player in one round.

The pace of this e-Sports gaming matches offer a quick game and promotes teamwork like other shooting games. For example, consider Call of Duty: Modern Welfare 3 which makes a player more efficient by unlocking weapons and equipment. It results in making players obsessed with increasing points and fighting with the objective of every man for himself, but somehow it approaches to a team centric game. Conversely, Counter Strike is like a balanced board of chess in e-sports gaming, where every player plays a part of an integral piece.

Counter Strike provides an equally powerful armory to each side with finely tuned firearms, though there are specific weapons for teams. You need to learn the burst capabilities and firing pattern if you are using an assault rifle. For your career in this e-Sports gaming, you need to learn the strengths and weaknesses of each weapon. Balance of this game makes a pistol carrying player as deadly as a player with a sub-machine gun. The best part of Counter Strike is that you need some backup to last long even if you have an amazing shot.

The well-designed maps of Counter Strike thrive for team play. Previously, these maps were not balanced for a good e-Sports gaming competition, because they gave advantage to the Counter Terrorists. But with the evolution, there were battlegrounds, made for matches with maps like Nuke, Dust 2, Aztec and Office. Players of this e-Sports gaming match need to plan and execute different strategies for every map of Counter Strike since it offers a multitude of blocking points and multiple approaches of achieving any goal. With this feature, players are still looking for new ways to fight with the enemy even years after the release of the game.

Thus, Counter Strike became a leader for online esports gaming organizations. Players practice in fights against each other by forming teams called clans with the hope of setting down on the mysterious CA-i invite. This game created many legends, among which is a well-known name of Johnathan Wendel who started with Quake III Arena, but gained similar recognition with Counter Strike. Some other successful names of this e-Sports gaming also include "Patrik", "f0rest", "Lindberg" and Kyle "ksharp" Miller.