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Knife-Licensing Sensation Sweeps Counter-Strike

Posted by simoniker on from the inappropriate-use-of-fps-topic? dept.

Thanks to Shacknews for passing on the bizarre news that Valve's currently-beta Counter-Strike 1.6 release has an official knife license (PDF doc). An excerpt from the press release reads: "The new Counter-Strike knife is based on Mick Strider's award winning bowie. It is an integral design that started as a 1/2" thick slab of 6AL4V titanium. The edge is press-fit Stellite.. ..the handle is fossilized mastodon ivory." There's also a link to a an in-game screenshot of the knife, looking both sharp and shiny. We're looking forward to seeing how Valve can top this licensing masterpiece... suggestions?

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  1. Why should I care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We're looking forward to seeing how Valve can top this licensing masterpiece... suggestions?

    This is news?

    Yay, a new skin for the knife. Why should I care? A virtual knife is a virtual knife, it doesn't have any of those high quality carbon-steel mentioned on the webpage.

    Hate to tell you this, but it's hardly a masterpiece. How much did Valve pay for this "license"?

    What's next, McDonalds happy meals?

  2. More polys on knife than the guy's hand.. by molo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The knife is nice looking alright.. but it doesn't fit. The guy's hand has half as many polygons and shittier textures. Its neat that they are adding real-life objects, but it doesn't mesh with the game. This could be a nice prototoype for the next generation though.

    -molo

    --
    Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
  3. Advergaming by neostorm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is just another example of advertising intruding into the gaming scene.
    It's a good thing CS doesn't have the text notifications of player deaths, or else the in-game messages would all read:
    "So-n-so snipes 1337gunR"
    "Iggy scores a headshot on ~playa4_lif"
    "D00d has hacked n00b to death with his 'Award Winning Bowie knife' (now only 24.99 at www.yaddayadda.com)"

    What bothers me is what it may mean for Valves development approach on a larger scale. Will Half-Life 2 have WinXP PCs in all the research labs you fight your way through? Will the Invading aliens from another dimension drink Sprite?
    This approach only insults the players and reinforces the idea of a general lack of creativity in most American game developers.

  4. How about using actual gun names now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So yeah, V1.6 has a new knife, new knife action (quicker stab and more of a sliding alternate attack for it)... But, in the meanwhile, they changed the names of all of the guns to generic, fake names... The heralded "sig" (you hear the word and it strikes fear), now has some stupid name... Almost all of the weapons have changed.

    I like the new CS. Official, and officially smart, bots (100x better than any community coded bots, and more versatile), de_aztec is changed a bit, and new GUI... I'm held back because I lost all of my buy aliases, and I have no idea how Steam works, so I can't really put them back or anything.

    We'll see how it goes. I'm paciently awaiting HL2...
    Mike