I used to be against Counter-Strike because I preferred faster deathmatch games like quake, and counter-strike took some patience at times. But I have come to appreciate it and still play the occasional round with my buddies. CS:S is a very solid game with good game-player and a nice multilayer game to play with friends. (And half life 2 deathmatch is great also!)

Buy this game if:

1) You like spawn camping noobs who constantly fire in areas where you're known to go therefore giving you no chance at all to fight back
2) Enjoy playing with people who use aim hacks (even on the so called 'anti-cheat' servers)
3) Like listening to squeaky 16 year olds
4) Enjoy lame gameplay; sorry but Halo on the original xbox owns this game

Even if you need a cheap fix on a game to play don't even bother with this junk. You're better off spending that $20 on WoW or Runescape.

I am still a fan of Counter-Strike, and am also a fan of Counter-Strike Source but I see lost potential. Aside from a graphical update many of the problems I had with the original Counter-Strike are still alive and well in the Source update.

Let me say that the graphics are good. Not F.E.A.R. good, or Doom 3 good, but still a huge improvement over the original Counter-Strike. The blood sprays across the enviornment very well and after a room full of people shoot each other up it's a site to see. Also the wounds look really good on the corpses. I especially like shooting people in the face now. The detail on the guns is pretty good, some look better than others on the source engine, but none look bad.

Still, there are a lot of problems with Source (more personal problems of mine than actual ones) that remain from the original. For instance, the AWP can still kill a person with one shot to the foot. I know Counter-Strike doesn't tout itself as having realistic action, but that is still pretty pathetic. Furthermore I would still like to have a fire selector to put some guns to semi-auto, I don't think it's too much to ask. I would love a game wide stats tracker while Valve's at it but I won't hold my breath.

If you liked the original Counter-Strike you will like the Source version. The graphics are much better, theres still user created maps, and the physics got an overhaul. Some nagging issues remain, but they're minor for the most part. My main problem at the end of the day is the graphics is all this game really has on the original. I wish they would of put something new in. A new mode, some weapon balancing, stats, something. New guns only go so far.

this game is great and the action is great also but the grafics are not as great they are off in different ways. If you are just looking for excitement this game is it if you are looking for great grafics think again.

very fun game however you die a lot due to it being a online game played with many players who probably pay 24/7