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COUNTER-STRIKE KILLER

After weeks of teasing Valve has announced Counter-Strike 2, the newest iteration of what some consider the greatest and most popular competitive FPS in history. Yes, it’s technically not the second Counter-Strike game, but the number feels like a statement of intent: this is the foundation for the next decade of Counter-Strike players and the esports scene).

And on first sight you may well wonder what the big deal is an overhaul to every system, every piece of content, and every part of the experience,” but it looks, and plays, an awful lot like . The big changes are technological, with the most eye-catching being the new smoke grenades: the billowing smoke they create now reacts to things like bullets and grenades. Once you’ve seen a smoke cloud dispersed by an explosion, it’s hard to go back.

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