The history of the great game

 Counter-Strike  on the right is one of the top lines in the list of the most successful  games in the history of computer gaming industry. Its current fans are millions of people across the planet. We can say that the Counter-Strike - this icon of the video game, not  so long ago fans of the games celebrated its 10th anniversary.
There was a time when gamers around the world to pay their last, they have, for the opportunity of owning a "counter." Nowadays, download it on the network can be anyone. How did it all start?
The end of the twentieth century. To be more precise, the beginning of 1999. Minh  Le talented developers (Gooseman) announces his retirement from the  project Quake 2. In his mind has matured the idea of ​​creating a  fundamentally new original 3D Action'a. To help him in this matter is taken one more eccentric personality - Cliff. enthusiastic team decides to do next masterpiece on the engine, then the popular game Half-Life. The name under which the game is known today, was issued to the public  in March 1999, the first beta version is being released in three  months.
news The success was overwhelming! People rushed to the network in a desperate attempt to find and download the game. Such dizzying beginning does not look random, Gooseman promised and  gave gamers exactly what they were waiting for a very long time.
In the autumn of the same year debut massive server on the Internet were launched. From the first days of work they collect on their virtual spaces of the vast number of people, and this is not surprising. Tired  of space travel and the extermination of various mutants and zombies,  players, forgetting everything in the world, with unprecedented  enthusiasm destroy each other via conventional terrestrial weapons. There are entire systems and strategy warfare game.
On successful project pay attention to such giants of the gaming industry Canadian Barking Dog Studios and the company Valve. They invest heavily in development, is now a common cause. It will allow the world to present the first official version of the  game in November next year - Counter-Strike, which in a few months  bypasses their immediate competitors.
Since  then and to this day, Counter-Strike enter page after page in the  annals of his success and the belief that by the end of this book is  still very far, is growing every year.