Counter-Strike Source Beta Debuts In CyberCafes

orion024 writes "From the official Half-Life 2 website - the Half-Life: Counter-Strike Source beta '...will be playable [starting tomorrow, Wednesday] at all cyber cafes that subscribe to the Valve Cyber Cafe Program. Later this month, the beta will be extended to owners of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero; and ATI Fulfillment Coupon holders.' Hopefully, this beta, using the Source engine Half-Life 2 is built upon, will ease those HL2 jitters many fellow gamers are experiencing." We previously reported on some friction between cybercafe owners and Valve - as for CS:Source, IGN PC also has an updated preview on the title, which sports "the same specs that Doug Lombardi mentioned for Half-Life 2... minimum system requirements appear to be a 1.2 gigahertz processor with 256 megabytes of RAM and a DirectX 7 video card."

Comments

Re:Hopefully I will get more enjoyment than Doom 3

[AuMatar]

As much as I hate FPSes, I'm going to have to defend Doom here. They aren't trying to be revolutionary. They're trying to create a graphics and physics engine. Any game wrapped around the engine is just a demo for its abilities.

Well, i wonder how the CS comunity will take this

[Lisandro]

I mean, seeing how they bitch with every CS update (not without reason, i might add - from 1.3 it's been downhill); this one will change the gameplay dramatically, if only because of the added freedom in maps. Imagine pushing a barrel arround for cover, and so.

Also, the minimal hardware to run CS (which was pretty low spec for the original HL engine) will be kicked up a notch. Expect a whine about lost FPSs in no time.

Sorry, i can't help myself. I always get a kick when i see some of the stuff the "CS pro" comunity does ;)