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Knife-Licensing Sensation Sweeps Counter-Strike
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?
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?
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.
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.
He was spelling it like he was mick dundee. Genius.
Heh.... holding the knife like that, the terrorists are sure to lose their thumbs very quickly
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
I look at the picture, and it's some bad photograph of some twit holding a knife over his shoulder. I can't see any detail, and it certainly doesn't look like counterstrike. Unless you're supposed to hold this thing while playing counterstrike or something?
We're looking forward to seeing how Valve can top this licensing masterpiece... suggestions?
Hmmmmm maybe a licensed MP5! Last time i checked (and I did) it was hard to get a license for a class 3 firearm in my county. Not to mention finding a pre-ban mp5... If valve could help me with licensing... W00T!!!!
Then we'd all have Mikov
.380 with the added bonus of
leverlocks instead of 500 dollar microtech knives.
We'd carry 150 dollar Makarovpistols
instead of 550 dollar glocks and kahrs.
And that would mean we'd all be pretty smart. The
Mikov is one of the most wonderfully underrated
knives in existence. It's perhaps THE strongest
automatic knife design there is. It's light,
quick, and has an excellent blade that holds an
edge for a damn long time. Not bad for a 100 year
old design that you can pick up for 40 bucks with
black plastic ABS handle.
The Makarov is the ONLY gun I own that has never
jammed ONCE on any ammo I've ever fed it. The
ammo is cheap as sin too. It's got about the same
amount of power as a
easily grouping 3 inches at 25 yards quickly, and
easily under 1 1/2 inch with winchester white box
ammo if I really concentrate. Being able to
rapidly place shots exactly where you want them
is a hell of a lot better than getting tagged 3
times before you recover from the recoil of your
first shot with your magnum.
With the nearly thousand dollars you save buying
these two weapons over the ones featured in
hollywood movies, you can start to pay for some
things that matter more. Like, some training.
Training so you are less dangerous to yourself
and the people around you if you ever are put
in a position to have to use deadly force.
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