Counter-Strike
is a game about violence.
On
"bomb" (officially "defuse") maps, the terrorists can
win by blowing up something - typically some boxes, a missile, a gas main,
or a vault. In "de_vegas" they are assaulting a casino, to
either blow
open its safe or demolish a big statue of a Sphinx (? - the safe I can
understand...). In the map pictured above ("de_dust2"),
the T's are fixated on blowing up these boxes
full of army supplies. (You can see this poor "CT" has given
his life trying to defuse the bomb, and save those precious supplies.
Don't
worry, it will all be back together in ten seconds for
the next
round.)
We're
not sure why these terrorists find it necessary to continually risk
intense combat against fully-armed counter-terrorists - suffering multiple
casualties in the process - for such menial targets. But that's not really
the point. In Counter-Strike, the infamous bomb (there is only one
on the map at any given time) is more like a football than anything
approaching a military weapon -
it's just there for the touchdown.
Still,
Counter-Strike is a game about violence - realistic violence. So
attempts to relegate it to being just another mainstream sport (like
football or whatever) will ultimately
fail until this dark aspect is come to terms with. If CS is a sport - it
is played professionally now - it is
unlike any we have encountered.
This
game - with all its "shooting" and "killing" - scratches an
itch for a lot of normal, well-adjusted people. Why?
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