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Overview
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Counter-Strike is a modification (MOD) to Valve Software抯 hit game Half-Life. It modifies the multiplayer aspects of Half-Life to provide the player with an experience that a trained counter-terrorist unit or terrorist unit might have. Players will join either a terrorist or a counter-terrorist force and play in one of the four types of scenarios. These are:
Hostage Rescue, where the counter-terrorists must rescue hostages.
Bomb / Defuse, where terrorists must plant a bomb in a critical area and counter-terrorists must defuse the bomb.
Escape, where the terrorists must escape from the counter-terrorists.
Assassination, Where the VIP must be escorted by the counter-terrorists to an escape point.
Weapons and other pieces of equipment are available at a cost, and players can earn money in a variety of different ways while playing the game. Players may also lose money for inappropriate actions. E.g. killing a hostage or a teammate.
Getting Started
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After installing Counter-Strike, you will want to activate it through the Half-Life menu. To do this, choose 慶ustom game?from the initial Half-Life menu, then select Counter-Strike from the list that appears. Choose 慳ctivate?and you should notice that the appearance of the menus has changed. The next thing you will want to do is familiarize yourself with the mapping of the game controls on your keyboard/mouse. Choose 慶onfiguration->controls? and look over the default keyboard configuration. To change any of the default mappings, double-click on the key/button field in the window. You will then be able to enter your desired key for that function. (A warning; if the new key/button was previously mapped to another function, you will need to select a new key for that function, as it will no longer have a key mapping). If you have no previous experience with Half-Life, it is strongly recommended that you play the excellent tutorial included with that game. See the ?a href="#Controls">Controls? section below for a description of what each game control does.
