Somewhere there’s a group of lunatics that want nothing more than to see Valve work on Half-Life 3.  In fact, a few of them came out in droves over the past week, protesting at the company’s headquarters to voice their complaints.  While we wait a little while longer for that eventual classic to simmer and reveal itself (2012 is a fair guess), we have another classic franchise to keep us busy.  The Half-Life spin-off Counter-Strike is back, priming for a premiere on the downloadable front next year.

No one in their right mind is going to argue if Counter-Strike still holds relevancy in the shooter market today as just about every single competitive FPS fan to date has been weened off of the classic shooter. In fact, CS is arguably the reason that any sort of competitive FPS scene exists today, there's really just no fighting the fact that many of the liberties we enjoy today from iconic modern gaming weaponry to level design all stem from the good old fashioned Counter-Strike.

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