Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a free-to-play first-person shooter, is probably among the most popular FPS games of its generation.

If you've ever played Counter-Strike, you'll notice that Global Offensive plays a lot like Counter-Strike. Global Offensive, like Counter-Strike: Source before it, exists only to update the graphics of the classic competitive shooter while making a few changes to the essential form and function.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is a Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment multiplayer first-person shooter released in 2012. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the fourth installment in the Counter-Strike series. Valve continues to update the game on a regular basis, both with modest balancing tweaks and bigger content additions.

Global Offensive, like previous Counter-Strike titles, is a multiplayer first-person shooter with objectives-based gameplay. In-game modes, two rival teams, the Terrorists and the Counter-Terrorists, strive to fulfill objectives like securing a place to plant or detonate a bomb, as well as rescuing or capturing hostages.

The fundamental gameplay concept of the Counter-Strike franchise is tweaked in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Weapon damage models have been rebalanced in comparison to Counter-Strike: Source. Bullet penetration through several walls, materials, and objects has been enhanced. The HUD, crosshair, and purchase menu VGUI have all been changed in addition to the graphical upgrades.

At the end of each short round, you are awarded with in-game cash to spend on different weapons or utility in the following rounds based on your and your team's performance. Winning rounds pays out more money than losing them, and accomplishing map-based objectives, such as killing enemies, earns you more cash.

Rifles, submachine guns, heavy weaponry (light machine guns and shotguns), pistols, and grenades are the five types of weapons available for purchase in the game.

Each gun in Global Offensive has its own recoil pattern, which can be modified, a gameplay aspect that the franchise has long been known for. Tasers and an incendiary grenade were among the weapons and equipment included in Global Offensive, which were not seen in prior installments.

One of the most intriguing new battle aspects is fire. Molotov cocktails and flaming grenades either burn or drive groups of players in one direction or the other. Flames can also be used as a distraction or a scare technique.

Competitive, Casual, Deathmatch, Arms Race, Demolition, Wingman, Flying Scoutsman, Retakes, and Danger Zone are the nine main game modes in Global Offensive.

The main game mode, which is Competitive mode, sets two teams of five players against one other in a best-of-30 match. When you play Competitive, you are given a skill rank based on the Glicko rating system, and you are matched with and against other players of similar skill levels.

Casual and Deathmatch modes are less serious than Competitive mode. Both are mostly used as a tool for practicing.