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Split into two parts, Condition Zero's first half we'll come to the other, far superior half later offers an 18 mission, worldwide campaign against terror, where you singlehandedly fight to thwart terrorist cells, while a handful of brain-dead Al team-mates stand around looking at flowers urging you on to do everything for them, in missions not too dissimilar to the kind of basic, bedroom-coded rubbish you'd expect from a ten-year-old making their first foray into level designing.

And you can't play them online. Or with other people. Before you wade into the action, you're offered a training course, which is basic at best, and inadequate at worst.

After this, it's on to the campaign. Each of the 18 missions begins with a token cinematic sequence, outlining the mission goals defuse bomb, rescue hostages, kill VIP etc before you set off on your lonely trek. In fact, while we're here, why don't we get a feel for a typical mission? The first level picks you up and plops you down, deep underground. The Japanese underground to be precise, where you find yourself on a tube, keeping one eye out for terrorists and one on the white panties peeking out cheekily from beneath the skirts of the Japanese schoolgirls sitting opposite you hey, they said they were 16 OK?

The next thing you know, you're getting beaten round the head by a man who looks like a South American paedophile, while his mate wires up a bomb and randomly shoots passengers.

Mustering all your years of training, you pass out, waking just in time to see the bomb go off. Now you're pissed - especially as those schoolgirls have gone.

Kidnapped apparently. With the place swarming with counter-terrorists CTs , you're ready to join with your compadres and pump your assailants up to the fillings with lead. Sadly, only one other CT, Gerald the model-train enthusiast, will come with you. He opens a door. You walk through. He closes the door behind you and wishes you luck.

The bastard! Seconds later, you're cowering behind your riot shield one of the game's new weapons , futilely popping away at a dozen or so terrorists with a cap gun. Barely alive, you stumble past the corpses, blood smattered all around the white walls like vulgar graffiti, diving on to a bomb in order to defuse it, only to die immediately as two terrorists appear from nowhere and shoot you.

You dive on to the bomb to defuse it, then die as two terrorists appear from nowhere and shoot you. Rip off earphones, throw them at monitor. Throw monitor out of window. Where's the back up? There is none. Where's the teamwork? What team? Even after just this first mission, you're left in no doubt about two things, a Those girls definitely weren't And not a very good one at that, either.

Throughout the next few missions this suspicion intensifies as you're persistently sent off on your own to accomplish goals your team should be helping you with. And on the rare occasions when they bother engaging the enemy, their bullets prove about as effective as sponge plugs, with 30 of their bullets accomplishing what yours can achieve in two or three. Add to this an abundance of barrels filled with high explosives which are always conveniently positioned right next to large groups of terrorists, the inability to pick up enemy weapons, not being able to shoot enemies while they're in the middle of a scripted animation and stealth sections which are lamer than a two legged horse, and it's hard not to feel you're trapped in Clichesville twinned with Crapsville - a town where there's nothing new and little to get excited about.

But even a little is better h than nothing, and while the campaign as a whole will invite little more than derision B from CS veterans, B there are some merits to this section of CZ. While enemies' often flamboyant entrances rolling from behind a r wall, throwing over a table F and taking cover are all scripted, the level of intelligence they show during a firefight is sporadically impressive.

When in groups they fan out and take cover, when in a position of superiority they close you down, caging you in to prevent you from escaping. Throw a grenade at them and they'll run and cower, aim at their heads and they'll try to duck down. Then there are some of the more entertaining scripted sequences, like shooting down a Harrier Jump Jet as it strafes you from above, or reliving the final chase scene from Terminator 2 as you try to shoot down a pursuing helicopter.

And the dated Half-Life engine has received a thorough makeover, updated to just about passable modern-day standards. The weapons from Counter-Strike are all present and correct, as well as some new ones too, meaning variety isn't a problem, but sadly the buggy-like radio controlled bomb that we were promised, which can be driven into enemy encampments, is MIA.

So why the relatively high score Korda? You been taking bribes? You getting' a cut of the profits? Bloody hell, my schizophrenia-induced alter ego Sharon is getting impatient these days, isn't she? OK, let me explain. Remember, I said there were two parts to this game, and it's part two that lifts the score immensely. Even though all the features you're about to read about will be available as a free V1. Here's the deal. Imagine playing all the existing official Counter-Strike levels with bots.

Intelligent bots. Who work together to win a level. Who cover each other, protect bombsites and use stealth when navigating comers. Bots who are fallible, but also learn from mistakes when certain tactics simply aren't producing the goods. Imagine playing without the need to go online, without the humiliation of getting no kills.

Playing at a standard that'll help you improve your game, have fun and not have to listen to the arrogant ramblings of loners who've quit their jobs, abandoned their families and who piss in a cup so as to spend the maximum amount of time playing CS online.

Imagine playing with a couple of mates online or over a LAN, but still having a full server for a fulfilling and challenging game. Having bots that, just like humans, each have their own playing styles, be they campers, rushers, flushers or pistoleers. Games that can range from a second massacre to a five-minute game of cat and mouse as you and the last bot hunt each other down. Every game feels realistic, and the four difficulty settings mean you never feel overawed.

Put simply, it's the most entertaining, fulfilling and timesapping team-based singleplayer shooter I've ever played, despite the occasional erratic bit of behaviour from the odd disorientated bot, and the now hugely dated graphics engine, which although slightly tweaked with better weapon models and more realistic particle effects, remains much the same. It's also the perfect training if you're a CS beginner, as you won't be put off by playing against veterans online, while even experienced CS players will appreciate the chance to try out the new weapons, such as the near-impenetrable riot shield and the FAMAS and Galil machine guns before risking using them online.

Valve - who along with a new development company Turtle Rock Studios is responsible for developing this part of the game - has shown up Ritual's shortcomings in the campaign missions with their sublime Al programming and unparalleled skill in creating superb games and gameplay.

So there you have it. Two games in one. One flawed, one available free for HL owners , but deserving of a good score, which is why we've settled on 79 per cent. Had we been reviewing the CS bot game section on its own, you'd be looking at an Essential if not a Classic score. Be warned. If you're buying this game for the 18 new single-player levels, think very, very hard.

The campaign - just like the Blair Witch Project soundtrack a film bereft of music , which was packed with songs 'inspired' by the movie - is a game inspired' by Counter-Strike. A barely passable shooter trying to pass as Counter-Strike, whose missions act as little more than a diversion from the sublime bot-filled Counter-Strike levels in which you can finally live the life of a counter-terrorist or terrorist , and believe it.

If you already own a copy of Half-Life and a 56K modem or above and want all of the new Counter-Strike features for free, then you'll be able to download Counter-Strike V1.

Which means millions of fans worldwide will be able to enjoy the evolution of Counter-Strike. Basically what we're saying is, if you're an existing Counter-Strike player, there's little need to buy Condition Zero, unless you want to play through a disappointing and hugely flawed single-player FPS.

So many opportunities missed and so little space to write them in. Let's start with the campaign game. Scripting has its place in any FPS, but the beauty of CS is its unpredictability, with no two games ever being the same.

Why didn't Ritual let us use the tools in a freeform way? So we could use fibre-optics to look through any door in the game, rather than just the odd one here and there? The same with the blowtorch. There could have been secret passages to discover and open, allowing alternative access and escape routes from terrorist strongholds. Oh, and then there's the small detail of teamwork.

Yeah, some of that would have been nice. When Gearbox brought in the game to the offices a little over a year ago, there were groups of CTs and terrorists shooting the shit out of each other. Now it's just you against the world. Finally, some new CS levels to play against the Bots and online would have been a nice touch as well.

Right, let's try this again shall we? It was the one with the words Exclusive Review: Counter-Strike: Condition Zero' emblazoned on the front cover, replete with a balaclava-clad man about to be unwittingly run over by three helicopters. Inside was a six-page review - or should I say lamentation - about how the game was nothing like we'd expected it to be.

The thing was, right up until the moment the review code plopped onto our desks - and despite development having changed hands from Gearbox to Ritual - we'd been led to believe that Condition Zero would comprise of a group of ever- harder missions, in which you and a team of intelligent Al-controlled counter-terrorist bots would battle it out across a set of maps against terrorist forces in either bomb defusal or hostage rescue missions.

So basic just like online Counter-Strike , only with bots and personal tasks to complete in each map.

Problem was, that's not what we got at all. No siree. What we got was a collection of 18 pitiful single-player missions that bore almost no resemblance to Counter-Strike whatsoever. Since this updated logic is based on the bot AI, the absence of a bot navigation file for the map will revert the hostage logic to that of the original Counter-Strike.

The hostage models also received a make-over in version 1. These models were likely created by Turtle Rock Studios , [3] but they were based on hostage models created by Ritual Entertainment. As these updated models are hard coded to override the hostage models specified by the map file, [4] it is no longer possible to use map specific custom hostage models following this update.

Bots also fully support this scenario with Counter-Terrorists properly trying to rescue the hostages and Terrorists attempting to defend them. The Tour of Duty game mode also has several scenario specific tasks available for hostage rescue. Bomb defusal functions exactly like it does in the original Counter-Strike. One player on the Terrorist team starts off with a bomb which has to be planted at one of two bombsites.

Once planted the bomb will detonate after a specific amount of time and successful detonation will lead to victory for the Terrorist team. Counter-Terrorists may attempt to defuse the bomb and successful defusal yields victory to the Counter-Terrorists.

Complete bot support for the scenario is available and the Tour of Duty game mode also offers tasks specific to bomb defusal scenarios. While no new assassination maps were introduced with Condition Zero , the fact that all maps from the original Counter-Strike are included means that the lone assassination map Oilrig is part of the game.

Gameplay remains identical to the original game, but other updates were made to support the scenario. To complement the new player models, an upgraded player model is introduced for the VIP. The official bots also support playing this scenario, but it can be argued that this support was mostly an afterthought.

Bots that take the role of the VIP will properly strive to reach escape zones in maps. However, they play like any regular bot making no additional efforts at keeping oneself alive.

This is especially apparent when a bot VIP runs out of the limited pistol ammunition, as it will attempt to charge at any encountered enemies armed only with a knife. With the introduction of custom campaign support for the Tour of Duty mode, a scenario specific task for the assassination mode, which entailed killing the VIP, was also introduced.

A total of four maps were added to the game post-release via game patches. In addition to the new maps included with Condition Zero , all maps from the original Counter-Strike are also playable via Condition Zero.

There is out-of-the-box bot support included for all the new and original maps. The listing below only includes the maps or versions of them that are part of Condition Zero. This lists the original author of the map only; the person mainly responsible for the general geometry of the map. Counter-Strike: Condition Zero features exactly the same arsenal of weapons and equipment as the original Counter-Strike.

The possibility of weapons exclusive to Deleted Scenes being introduced was mentioned, [7] but this never happened. Back when Ritual Entertainment was working on Counter-Strike: Condition Zero , they had remade all of the weapon models in the game. However, some people felt that some of these models looked too different from the original Counter-Strike weapon models. Therefore the models originally created by Ritual were slightly modified and then introduced into Condition Zero starting with version 1.

In version 1. Condition Zero was supposed to use the player models that Ritual Entertainment had created, but due to technical difficulties with these models the game was initially launched using the original Counter-Strike models.

Owners of Condition Zero can also choose to use these enhanced models in the original Counter-Strike. The development of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero originally started in with Rogue Entertainment working on the game, but development was overtaken by Gearbox Software relatively quickly due to concerns with the financial stability of Rogue Entertainment.

After about a year of development, Gearbox Software decided to withdraw from the project and in mid Ritual Entertainment took over development before the game finally landed in the hands of the relatively young Turtle Rock Studios in mid Turtle Rock Studios had already been involved with development of the game when Ritual Entertainment was in charge of its development in the form of the official bots.

The design by Turtle Rock Studios drew some inspiration from sports games, [7] and due to the success of the bots it became possible to build very flexible arcade-like missions for the game. Instead of completely scrapping the work done by Ritual Entertainment, the decision was made to package it up as a bonus game of sorts with the title Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes.

On October 8, the version of the game designed by Turtle Rock Studios was unveiled to the public and it was to go gold by October 10, and be available at retail and via Steam on November 18, By the time November 18, came around the game was nowhere to be seen. According to Jess Cliffe , the game had been delayed due to work needed to be done by the publisher in finalizing international versions of the game. Despite the lack of a release date for the title, Valve Software decided to organize a launch party for the game on December 16, The event was announced to be open to anyone over 21 of age and was held at the House of Shields in San Francisco.

Attendees were supposed to be able to play the final version of the game at the event. Unknown PM, June 14, Irfaint AM, June 17, Unknown PM, July 07, Calista Yurinnazihah PM, July 31, Unknown PM, August 15, Unknown PM, August 20, Rikolie AM, December 05, Ray AM, April 29, Unknown PM, May 18, Anonymous PM, November 10, Unknown PM, December 25, Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom.

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