As you start making money though, you can recruit guys to join your team and buy yourself better weapons. What skills will they have? Moans of hatred from everyone else. This one is their ability to ct to the sounds that they hear, such as knowing what weapons are being fired at them.
Knowing things like this will affect their behaviour. The tactics skill represents their ability to communicate with each other and move together as a unit. Condition Zero was looking little short of stunning, with an engine so brilliantly enhanced that it was barely discernable from the original Half-Life one. As I pushed my way through the rabble, I threw a cursory and somewhat sympathetic glance to the man at the Nascar stand, isolated and ignored bar one suited man who stood like a wax figurine, holding a gaming wheel steady at a slight leftwards i angle.
The verdict was clear. No game on show that day could come close to competing, and as I clambered back on the bus. I realised that any team-based first-person W shooter out this year would have trouble doing so too.
And so another press trip was over, ending the way each one does. Well, this was Paris after all Got to work, had a cup of coffee, a muffin, a banana. Checked my emails Hold on there was something else At about hours we received a Code Red from Tac-Ops, who relayed the position of a terror cell to us.
Major draaaag. So after afternoon tea and a nap, we pootled off in a stealth chopper to have a look, infiltrated their base and you'll never guess who we found. Osama Bin Laden. Heh, who would have thought it? In Somerset of all places. One minute you're sitting around sharpening a knife on your stubble, the next your intestines are being used as a skipping rope by some terrorist's niece.
It's a job where you never know what dangers you'll be facing tomorrow, whether you'll live to see another day. Danger, intrigue, brutal firefights, a battle of wits against the most uncompromising and brutal men on the planet. It's a scenario which many an online shooter, in particular Counter-Strike , has tried to replicate The impudent little twat gets to you so much that all you end up thinking about is how much you'd like to grab the little prick by the neck, slap off his glasses, and hang him out of a window by his ankles while beating him round the back of the legs with a sawn-off oar.
And I don't think I'm alone in thinking that What's more, how the hell are you supposed to improve when you die within seconds of each round?
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, that's how. At least, that's what we've been led to believe until now. Due 16 months ago when it was still being developed by Gearbox , Condition Zero claims to be the single-player version of Counter-Strike, the world's favourite online shooter. Which obviously means, you don't need to go online to play it. Now, from what we could gather from the information trickling out of Ritual who appear to have totally changed the game since the Gearbox days , this meant an 18 mission, worldwide campaign against terror, where you and a collection of intelligent bots fight as a team to thwart terrorist cells, in all-new missions not too dissimilar to the ones you currently play online.
We were wrong. 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. Overall Reviews:. Review Type.
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No minimum to No maximum. Off-topic Review Activity. When enabled, off-topic review activity will be filtered out. This defaults to your Review Score Setting. Read more about it in the blog post. In addition to being a multiplayer game, it also features 2 single-player campaigns: Tour of Duty and Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes. The premise of Counter-Strike is terrorists and counter-terrorists are at odds with one another.
You must play in either one of the camps and complete the mission. Assassination and Hostage Rescue are similar as there is a hostage or hostages involved.
Bomb Defusal and Escape, on the other hand, is less restrictive as it only involves members of the two camps. The main draw of Condition Zero over the first Counter-Strike is that it allows gamers to play solo.
You will play in the same field as the multiplayer mode but your enemies and teammates will be replaced by bots. Similar to the multiplayer game modes, each map has its own objective. This includes taking down a number of enemies or rescuing a hostage.
Once you have met this objective, you will earn reputation points. These points are necessary for unlocking other maps on both the solo-player and multiplayer mode. Deleted Scenes is the second single-player mode but its game mechanics have been changed to linear shooter. CS Condition Zero integrates user-generated action with artificially intelligent responses. The bot AI serve as your companions in the single-player mode so their ability to communicate is important to your progress.
Expect that the bots know the map intimately and that they would crouch or lie behind strategic corners. You need to pay for it Pros: - Cons: price More. Laws concerning the use of this software vary from country to country. We do not encourage or condone the use of this program if it is in violation of these laws.
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