Counter Strike (1999)
What is it?
Counter Strike was released in 1999 by Valve
Corporation. The game was also known as Half-Life: Counter Strike. Counter
Strike is a first person shooter game. It was a Half Life modification when it
was first released. However, a version for Microsoft Windows was later released
in 2000. This was the first game in the Counter Strike series. Counter Strike
was also made for Xbox, OS X, and Linux.
Objective of the Game
The player chooses a team. Those teams are
terrorist, counter-terrorist, or spectator. There are various game modes. The
game modes are bomb defusal and hostage rescue. In bomb defusal, the terrorist
must plant the bomb and the counter-terrorists must defuse the bomb. In hostage
rescue, the terrorists must prevent the counter-terrorists from rescuing the
hostages.
Technological Innovations
The Valve Anti-Cheat system was developed. This
system was used to prevent players from cheating. If a player was caught
cheating on a VAC secured server they would be banned permanently from all VAC
secured servers.
Other Games That Spawned
- Counter Strike: Condition Zero
- Counter Strike: Global Offensive
- Counter Strike: Source
Personal Experience
I played Counter Strike when it first came out on
Windows. It is a fun game to play with a group of friends. I still play Counter
Strike: Source and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. I used to play Counter
Strike competitively when I was in high school. I had even modified servers for
Counter Strike: Source and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Some of the
servers that I had worked on were zombie riot servers which was waves of bot
zombies versus humans. In the game mode the players would have to beat each
wave of zombies by killing all of them. However, if they do not kill all the
zombies the players have replay the wave. As the players get through the waves
each wave becomes more difficult. There are even waves where if a player is
killed by a zombie they become a zombie. I have also modified the zombie riot
in order to create a role playing game version. The RPG version gives players
the ability to gain experience in order to level up to buy more skills. Some of
the various skills included the ability to regenerate health and to have a
health boost from the start. Sources:
Crazy Taxi (1999)
What is it?
Crazy Taxi is a racing
game. The game was designed by Kenji Kanno. Crazy Taxi was published by Sega. It
was originally an arcade game. However, it was later ported to the Sega
Dreamcast. Crazy Taxi was also made for Playstation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Microsoft
Windows, Playstation Network, iOS, and Xbox Live Arcade.
Objective of the
Game
In
the game you have to pick up taxi customers and drop them off to their
destination as fast as possible. However, you can pick up more than one
customer at a time to be able to make more money. You also gain money by
performing stunts and near misses while you are driving the customers to their
destination. You set the time limits that you have to play the game. The time
limits are three, five, and ten minutes.
Personal
Experience
I
first played this game on the Sega Dreamcast. It was a lot of fun. The best
part about this game is the customer’s reactions when you hit something,
perform a stunt, or have near miss. I still play this game every now and then
because I bought it on Steam during one of the steam sales.
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