Go pro with an hour of Counter-Strike: GO footage

As a long time CS player (beta 4) I am super excited to see what they are doing with GO.

so its Counter Strike only upgraded graphics? what am I missing? it looks not that different.

Nice!

I've had terrible insomnia lately. I'll use this tonight to help me go to sleep.

Yeah, can't wait for this. It's a shame BF3 is out in a week, gonna knock my 1337 cs skillz down yo!

Wow... the american commentator was a douche.

I thought I'd be interested in this, (I've never played CS), but I hate corner peeking, which looked like a pretty popular thing to do in that video...

I played CS since beta, going from a "ringer" in Cal-O stuff to a west coast CAL-im team. Great times.

However, the shooter has evolved and for me watching that video I'm just nonplussed. It's like the transition from 1.6 to CS Source, but now CS Source to CSGO. Meh.

Counter-what?

So for Global Offensive, they didn't even update the graphics?

Props to the commentators. They actually made watching competitive Gaming entertaining for me. Very articulate, and they had the right mix of education, humor, and banter. As a person who participated in sport most of their life and as a person who watches the NFL and MMA like it's a religion. I have been on the fence about watching people play a video game. I'll never refer to it as a "sport" but I was entertained.

As far as Go goes, I don't think I'll be getting into it. Never cared for the arcadiness of Counter Strike. Just something off about a modern shooter FPS with modern weapons and no need for iron sights, that I can't get in to. But I enjoyed watching it. Credit that to the guys calling the action.

I haven't watched any CS stuff in a while, so it was entertaining to see experienced players take on the new iteration without a ton of prep time.

The commentators were brutal though, both with the play-by-play and switching feeds. I don't know how many times they swapped from the attacking team just as things got interesting to watch a flash-banged screen for several seconds. :/

Seeing the first footage made me want to to go play some Source, surprisingly so, but as the initial surprise of a new CS wears off I'm left wondering how much I'd be willing to play a new CS that seems to mostly consist of map remakes. I would want the remakes to be there, it wouldn't be CS without them, but an influx of new maps to a game that's more than a decade old would be nice.

Well, it still looks like CS.

This sucks. Worse graphics than CS: S, one new weapon, same maps, etc.

Why would anyone want this?

Go Counter-Strike Go!

Sorry, that's what came to mind when I first read the name.