Recent reviews by Drathan

Wow! What an amazing game.

Driven by the emerging story of two brothers who tries to help their father, this game is both in it's visuals and gameplay a huge accomplishment.

Starbreeze has undoubtedly taken inspiration from Sweden and the nothern countries when designing this eyecandy of a game with simple, but immersive and beautiful landscapes.

The gameplay is both simple and clever. You play as both brothers at the same time, and each has only got one trigger button.

Played the game with a controller - can't say anything about the gameplay with keyboard (sounds kind of hard).

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is an almost perfect shooter in many ways. When it first got released it had many faults and was a bit of a disappointment. Though it still has some minor weaknesses, it has risen from what I, personally, thought was a failure, to a perfect mix between the CS:S and CS 1.6 experience.

The graphics are not at all the best on the market. This means, however, that this game is playable by the most computers, which makes the fanbase bigger. The graphics are okay, they aren't great nor horrible. They are pretty much standard graphics in today's games.

While introducing new weapons, the gameplay experience remains the same CS 1.6 experience that was a huge hit for over a decade ago. This makes it easy for oldschool players to come back into the new game.
One of the big weaknesses of the CS 1.6 was the sharp learning curve - experienced players would easily kill new players on almost every server, which sometimes made the game less fun. In CS:GO Valve has added a matchmaking system. The system, while not near perfect, is a great improvement for new players, since they will matchmake against other players with somewhat the same skill.

In conclusion CS:GO is a quite good game, and I would highly recommend it. It can be hard at times, but the matchmaking system helps here. Taken the pricepoint in mind, I really see no reason not to buy this.