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Well, besides the fact that games like EQ and WoW are totally different than online shooters, I don't think counterstrike is anything to tout as the pinnacle of online gaming achievement... I got Counterstrike : Source when I pre-purchased HL2, played it online for a few hours.
In a word: Boring.
Just your typical twitch shooter, no planning, no strategy, no tactics... just run as fast as you can and shoot anyone wearing the other sides uniform. Sure there's SUPPOSED to be stuff each side needs to do, but the game timers never really give you enough time to do it... out of the dozens of games I played every single one ended with one or the other side wiped out... there's a name for those sorts of games... team deathmatch, and that game was getting tired already when I was playing online a lot. Back in my younger days I got off on online shooters (Doom, Doom2, Quake)... but not anymore. Heck, for that matter, mod's like Threewave's Capture the Flag for quake were quite a bit better than counterstrike... team deathmatch is a crappy redundant boring game type.
Maybe if they didn't have the 2 to 3 minute match timers there'd be enough time to do some planning... but I didn't see any planning on the servers I played, the level designs I saw were pretty rudimentary also.
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