Platform reviewed:PCAvailable on:PCRelease date:Out now
Counter-Strike 2doesnt care about you.
If you want success, you have to earn it.
So it goes.Counter-Strikehas always been viciously cruel to newcomers.
This is, by and large, how it has always been inCounter-Strikeand very little has changed withCounter-Strike 2.
Stick and move
The draw is the silken movement and clean gunplay.
Moving around inCounter-Strike 2is smooth and fast.
Move at full speed and youre noisy, walk and you move slower but youre quieter.
Crouch and youll move incredibly slowly, but make nearly no noise.
Unless you kill your attacker first.
This is a simple and elegant way thatCS2pushes you, endlessly, toward violence.
Executing the perfect flank and getting a couple of kills to win a round always feels good.
The buying wheel ofCS:GOis gone, replaced with a Valorant-esque buying grid.
Each weapon behaves slightly differently.
While most people will be wearing armor in each fight, gunfights are still fairly brutal.
Get good or die trying
There is, however, something compelling about this.
To win even a single fight here means youve outplayed an opponent.
To hold an angle feels heroic, reloading a tiny celebration of living another few seconds.
Sadly, I think I may be in the minority.
Counter-Strike 2is an exceptional game.
This doesnt impact whether or notCounter-Strike 2is a good game.
I hope those changes morphCounter-Strike 2for the better.
Accessibility
Outside of subtitles, really theres nothing to talk about here.
I also dabbled in the games deathmatch mode and the two vs. two wingman mode.
I spent all of the time playing on keyboard and mouse.
Im currently usingRazers Cobra Pro, and that worked just fine here.
