The Counter-Strike Game Valve wants you to Forget

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    Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is the CS game you probably forgot existed! Valve's major flop was a great game that was released at the wrong time.

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  • @TheWarOwl
    @TheWarOwl  Год назад +190

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    • @PrivateBryan
      @PrivateBryan Год назад +15

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    • @nopenot-happening9074
      @nopenot-happening9074 Год назад +21

      Man’s capped

    • @zombine7103
      @zombine7103 Год назад +4

      There are no words to explain how much i love condition zero and cs source and go. I am not old or nostalgic either, i am 20 years old. The first time i played any cs game is csgo in 2016. Afterwards, in 2020 i played a lot of cs source, a lot and then i played so much cs 1.6 and explored condition zero along with its awesome singleplayer campaign. To this day i am still playing even the most dead valve games. They are all beautiful. I love them.

    • @dkskcjfjswwwwwws413
      @dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 Год назад +1

      you can command bots with voice commands

    • @raminkuntopolku8636
      @raminkuntopolku8636 Год назад +2

      manscuffed

  • @1x5x7
    @1x5x7 Год назад +1008

    5:38 you can use the command "bot_defer_to_human 0" to prevent the bots from waiting for you to defuse the bomb. They will defuse it on their own.

    • @BrunoHenrique-gi1wd
      @BrunoHenrique-gi1wd Год назад +6

      Doest that work for 1.6/cz?
      I thought that command was only for Source and newer

    • @tumble8323
      @tumble8323 Год назад +14

      @@BrunoHenrique-gi1wd yes it works in cz

    • @cojiro9616
      @cojiro9616 Год назад +34

      If I'm remembering correctly, in the game setup options you can check a box that will make bots do this, without having to use the console.

    • @Billy_Wyatt
      @Billy_Wyatt Год назад +16

      @@cojiro9616 that's the method if you play in a local game. Tour of Duty is different.

    • @cojiro9616
      @cojiro9616 Год назад +2

      @@Billy_Wyatt oh yeah u right

  • @jdog167
    @jdog167 Год назад +179

    Condition Zero and deleted scenes were both a part of my early childhood when I was 9 or 10 years old, both will always have a special place in my heart

    • @Tylestone_806
      @Tylestone_806 Год назад +5

      Counter strike condition zero is my favorite game. Still playing this game.

    • @AxeltheKing1000
      @AxeltheKing1000 3 месяца назад +1

      Same here that and source ❤

    • @AxeltheKing1000
      @AxeltheKing1000 3 месяца назад +1

      @@Tylestone_806same here 😊

  • @CanniBal634
    @CanniBal634 Год назад +2534

    I m Indian and this was actually quite popular back in 2009-2010 in India. I have fond memories of playing condition zero. Actually this was my first counter strike ever

    • @TheWarOwl
      @TheWarOwl  Год назад +822

      that's amazing, it's so much later than the release date, and CS:Source. I never realized it might not have been a flop in other regions, because I sure know it wasn't played in NA and EU, it was completely ignored.

    • @Anjankumar1996
      @Anjankumar1996 Год назад +278

      This is true. This made it better since in India back then internet was not that great! So we enjoyed it playing offline a lot. And the whole recruit who u want n the randomness of bots really made it so gooood!!

    • @5icklund
      @5icklund Год назад +71

      I played it well, condition zero was quite popular here at that time. Probably because of single player because high speed internet were impossible to get.

    • @AkhilxNair
      @AkhilxNair Год назад +61

      @@TheWarOwl Yup, it was pretty popular every after CSGO Launched, up until the Arms Update.
      We had dedicated Clan Server and Tournaments and Custom Servers like Superhero Mod, Zombie Base Build and it was insanely popular in this region.

    • @vedantkokate69
      @vedantkokate69 Год назад +79

      ​@@TheWarOwl condition zero is popular cuz in india almost every cyber cafe has condition zero instead of 1.6 or source condition zero was my childhood

  • @pcsecuritychannel
    @pcsecuritychannel Год назад +172

    This was my introduction to counter-strike, still one of the best games I've played.

  • @turkeyman631
    @turkeyman631 Год назад +793

    It's funny because my older cousin gave me this game and it was my first CS game. I absolutely loved it, pretty much only played Iceworld exclusively along with a few other community servers. Man such good memories, it's funny because when I finally started playing CSGO, I learned howl little people thought of CZ lol.

    • @TheWarOwl
      @TheWarOwl  Год назад +226

      there were still iceworld servers up and running!

    • @TheB33rgut
      @TheB33rgut Год назад +27

      I have 900 hours in condition zero wtf??

    • @anypsotis7976
      @anypsotis7976 Год назад +18

      Same, my dad played this all the time so it was my first CS as well. Didn't even play CS:Source, only switched to CS:GO when it came out. Never realized how much people disliked CZ, especially since I didn't know 1.6 was a thing hahaha

    • @IqweoR
      @IqweoR Год назад +3

      Same, my man, this is my first cs, one of the first games I ever played, and I enjoyed it very much

    • @zin.nesis1
      @zin.nesis1 Год назад +1

      Damn that probably felt bad 😅

  • @mauromerconchini
    @mauromerconchini Год назад +435

    I really felt everything you were saying in your concluding statements. I'm only 25, which isn't old, but it's old enough to have witnessed how multiplayer gaming progressed from fun, simple, social experiences where the main reward is getting to play the game with a community and being a part of the fun to games that are basically you finishing your shift at your job so you can come home and relax by playing your second job.

    • @Kacpa2
      @Kacpa2 Год назад +28

      Now its just sweaty angry people or mutes 90% of the time in csgo and 100% everywhere else. Not to mention how horribly low gaming has fallen in terms of actually having fun, being able to mod games and play on community servers. Even Valve is going against us in that regard and other devs dont care. Some exceptions exist like Payday 2 where overkill encourages modding but it still has no community servers. Aside of maybe other old games that survived like minecraft or games where community strong armed itself with modding in spite of the awful devs/publishers its unheardoff. And it all makes me just sad..

    • @NextDoorGuy
      @NextDoorGuy Год назад +13

      25 aswell and right with you man, we are at the perfect age to have observed the downfall of "oldschool" multiplayer and the rise of the faceless/battlepass/i wanna be pro multiplayer. CSGO is still better than other games in that respect but not by much. If you want the previous decade's experience you need private servers with friends at this point

    • @elu9780
      @elu9780 Год назад +9

      @@NextDoorGuy CSGO is absolutely awful to a new player, even to someone who does generally well elsewhere. The sweat is real, and I gave up playing CSGO aside from doing bot matches sometimes because then at least I have a chance to score a kill or two before dying.
      Sure, CS 1.6 and CSCZ can be sweaty too, but I never felt that way before CSGO.

    • @friendlyplayer92
      @friendlyplayer92 Год назад +8

      Im 30, been gaming since i was 7 or so. While i agree to some extent I also have to remind its about what games you decide to play. You can still have simple fun multiplayer in other games. Lately ive played Valheim with friends and 7 days to die on community servers. Had a blast

    • @friendlyplayer92
      @friendlyplayer92 Год назад +4

      If you dont like gamepasses and sweaty competitive, dont play those games. There are more games than ever to choose from :P

  • @Mollelarsson
    @Mollelarsson Год назад +133

    As soon as you talked about the bots and buying them for your team I had a massive nostalgia trip. I was young and awful at the game, but that was so fun back then! Actually had no idea it released so close to CS Source.

    • @siddhantgarg6899
      @siddhantgarg6899 Год назад +5

      i always picked maverick xD

    • @vukvidanovic8276
      @vukvidanovic8276 Год назад +3

      @@siddhantgarg6899 Yes! Maverick is the best! Even tho he never listens to me...

    • @nabilbudiman271
      @nabilbudiman271 Год назад +2

      @@siddhantgarg6899 Maverick and Tex has some mad skills

  • @KWerder92
    @KWerder92 Год назад +32

    The community servers were so awesome. My favourites were surf maps, warcraft mod, superhero mod and a 24/7 cs_assault server with all kind of variatons of the map, secret tunnels, more buildings, etc. The nostalgia man! Thanks

    • @ToyotaCharlie
      @ToyotaCharlie Год назад +1

      oh yes, the warcraft mod! I totally forgot about it. I loved it so much back then.

    • @jussilarvala4949
      @jussilarvala4949 Год назад +1

      AFNation 24/7 assault was the assault server if i remember correctly

    • @MaxTsyba
      @MaxTsyba Год назад +1

      I loved one 24/7 assault server with rope addon for everyone. Every single player was like a Spiderman, and top fraggers were always guys who utilized this ability in most creative and skillfull way

  • @romasissues
    @romasissues Год назад +152

    I'm glad CZ is finally getting the recognition it deserves

    • @Billy_Wyatt
      @Billy_Wyatt Год назад +9

      WarOwl showcased the whole single player campaign in 2015. Not the first time he's covering the game.

    • @Skompler
      @Skompler Год назад +2

      @@Billy_Wyatt 🤓🤓🤓

    • @gagannnnn
      @gagannnnn Год назад +2

      @@Billy_Wyatt that was deleted scenes not this

    • @aksGJOANUIFIFJiufjJU21
      @aksGJOANUIFIFJiufjJU21 Год назад

      WHO ASKED YOU'RE 8 YEARS OLD

    • @xxraptorsc0pezxx
      @xxraptorsc0pezxx Год назад +1

      @@Billy_Wyatt Oh wow a whole 9 YEARS AGO 🙄

  • @BlakeGillman
    @BlakeGillman Год назад +57

    I actually prefer CZ for the singleplayer/bot support. I know I'm alone in this but I love the 'deleted scenes' campaign. And I love the SP missions.

    • @GemuMasta98
      @GemuMasta98 Год назад +1

      CSZero bot campaign was quite fun... as long as you didn't need to kill an enemy using knife and shield or something, while playing against best enemy bots. But hmmm, maybe now I will flash/smoke to get knife kills, I was quite young back then. Still.. buying new team members was nice. Too bad sometimes you had to fight 5v9 or something, cos enemy team had no limit I remember.

    • @shotgunjack5564
      @shotgunjack5564 Год назад +1

      Your not alone I am one that love playing against bot.

    • @Therealguymins
      @Therealguymins 7 месяцев назад

      Campaign was cool. Glad I got to have an official CS story/mission-based game for once

  • @IrfoTech
    @IrfoTech Год назад +202

    This was my first CS game. Prodigy map

    • @RuiMartins69
      @RuiMartins69 Год назад +8

      My third actually, but Prodigy fire. And also... 747 ♥

    • @NawAkz38
      @NawAkz38 Год назад +1

      Only good memories and the zombie mod was godlike

    • @Trainson52Gamer
      @Trainson52Gamer Год назад +1

      Yea prodigy was awesome there was also an ice map forget the name but was cool too.

    • @RuiMartins69
      @RuiMartins69 Год назад

      @@Trainson52Gamer DE_SURVIVOR. Awwww God, the time I spent there

  • @z01db3rg
    @z01db3rg Год назад +16

    This video took me way back.
    I was in 6th grade in 2005. 4-5 boys in my class played "Counter Strike" together, they talked about this a lot, and I wanted to join the fun. The idea to play a game via the internet with other people, friends whom I know IRL even, was mind-blowing for me, as I only played single player games or splitscreen before - mostly on PS2.
    So when I was with my mum at the electronic retailer one day, I saw this CD case that said "Counter Strike" (imagine, hardcopies were standard back then) and my mum bought it for me. Later I figured out that my classmates were playing Source, but I bought Condition Zero instead... quite a fail, but 12 year old me didn't know that there were different versions of this game called CS.
    But then again Condition Zero was probably the better choice for me with it's "deleted scenes" campaign and offline with bots mode. We lived in a bit of a rural area at the time and only had a 56k modem. The connection was incredibly shitty, and it wasn't a flatrate either - every minute was billed via our telephone bill. This stuff all seems so weird from today's point of view - kind of hard to imagine that this wasn't even 20 years ago!
    In the end, I never got to play CS online with my classmates. First time I played Source was on a LAN party in like 2008. In 2009 I started COD MW2 - the first online multiplayer game ever for me. I didn't really get into online CS before a friend introduced me to CSGO in 2015.
    Thanks for evoking this childhood memory of mine, WarOwl! Looking forward to CS2 now!

  • @azalea_k
    @azalea_k Год назад +154

    Ben seems like the kind of guy who drops the bomb in site, to bait you while planting, with 5 seconds to go in the round...

    • @TheWarOwl
      @TheWarOwl  Год назад +117

      Throughout my playthrough, Ben would jump in front of my shots and then yell at me for shooting him. Typical MM player.

    • @sieevansetiawan4792
      @sieevansetiawan4792 Год назад +6

      Ben is one of the best bots in Cost 2.

  • @f4z0r59
    @f4z0r59 Год назад +34

    Not gonna lie, I replayed the CS:CZ missions a few years ago and I had a blast

  • @direkthit5003
    @direkthit5003 Год назад +68

    I used to play condition zero as a kid so much because I couldn't compete against real players in 1.6, so I played bots in cz instead. I had such a great time playing it. It's funny that I literally went back for a nostalgia trip today and you released a video about it hours later! What a nice little coincidence.

  • @jimmymizi9361
    @jimmymizi9361 Год назад +36

    I don't want to forget this game. So many memories with me and my brother playing together. This and 1.6 are the cores of my most cherished childhood memories. Pure nostalgia, i still play it time to time, and the fact that you can still find some servers full of people after all these years proves that this game is a masterpiece

    • @dreadedTanker3173
      @dreadedTanker3173 Год назад +1

      I remember getting CS1.6, and then getting CSS. none of the in-betweens, and i remember being blown away by how the bots would talk in-game.

    • @yvesheinrich5013
      @yvesheinrich5013 Год назад

      Likewise!

  • @cerjmedia
    @cerjmedia Год назад +292

    Just played it for the first time last year because it was bundled with a bunch of other Valve games for a ridiculously low price. I tried most of them out and Condition Zero was probably one of the more memorable games just because, I mean it was counter strike with a story, that's pretty neat

    • @alface935
      @alface935 Год назад +6

      That is pretty neat

    • @robert.slatt.original
      @robert.slatt.original Год назад +5

      I got the same pack for 6$ at the steam winter sale

    • @ricecrispyman1582
      @ricecrispyman1582 Год назад +4

      By any chance was it the valve essentials pack that was on steam for 7 dollars? (I bought it last year and got a chance to experience some of the best games ever made)

    • @Cyan_Nightingale
      @Cyan_Nightingale Год назад

      Not ridiculously low price. It's reasonably priced. This game (CS CZ) is probably older than most of the youtube users here

    • @cerjmedia
      @cerjmedia Год назад

      @@Cyan_Nightingale you're not wrong, but 22 games for 6.5 Dollars, good games at that, is pretty sweet, most games you can't even buy a good looking skin for 6.5 dollars though maybe that's an unfair comparison.

  • @dagaypussayeatah
    @dagaypussayeatah Год назад +7

    theres something about the way condition zero looks that i really love. some of the CZ map remakes are stunning for goldsrc

  • @FloofysTV
    @FloofysTV Год назад +114

    This game feels so pure and nice. I'm sure the developer will go on to do many good things for gaming!

    • @TwenOalley
      @TwenOalley Год назад +5

      oh god what happened

    • @SSlhouser
      @SSlhouser Год назад

      Yeah i need to know

    • @quakethedoombringer
      @quakethedoombringer Год назад +2

      @@TwenOalley i remember someone doing a short documentary on its development. The main issue is that Valve doesn't know what to do with it so the project kept getting delayed and by the time it was released it was already too late, CS Source overshadows it

  • @nydaarius6845
    @nydaarius6845 Месяц назад +1

    i think you hit the nail on the head with dedicated servers.
    when nostalgia grabs me, i learned, it isn't the games i miss.
    it's the communities and servers.
    i cod:uo , cs1.6...
    i had my "clan servers" 15ish people in the clan and about 60 people came to these servers EVERY DAY.
    you always had someone to play with. and you knew the people. The servers had their own feel to it, just because of the people.
    now your clans are discord servers.
    and you socialising with the same 4 oither people in your static.
    people are sweaty and competitive. No laughing, just PERFECT callouts and teamplay.
    Maybe im just unlucky, not finding the right "communities".
    but i play less shooters now. they feel like a job, unless i just hop in with randos that i literally NEVER meet again.
    so yea....i hate to be one to say "back in the day it was better"
    but it actually was.

  • @aaravdhaduk2253
    @aaravdhaduk2253 Год назад +46

    My brother introduced me to CS through Condition Zero. I used to play these campaigns matches literally all the time after coming back from school. I even enjoyed playing with bots lol. Brings back so many good old memories. 😌

    • @anonimo362
      @anonimo362 Год назад +1

      Oh man, sorry to hear that. I´m sure your brother is in a better place now. rip brah

    • @aaravdhaduk2253
      @aaravdhaduk2253 Год назад +6

      Dude what are you talking about? He's alive! 😂

    • @karthikgururajan1131
      @karthikgururajan1131 Год назад +2

      ​@@aaravdhaduk2253 lmao 😂 I like how he completely misunderstood what you said xD

    • @anteklincic545
      @anteklincic545 Год назад +1

      My brother also introduced me to Condition Zero. I was 9 or 10 i think...27 now

  • @supreme_noobgg233
    @supreme_noobgg233 Год назад +3

    3:17 meanwhile tf2 after 6 years with no updates: AHHHHH WHY THERES NO UPDATE

  • @syahrialrasyid2539
    @syahrialrasyid2539 Год назад +2

    5:36 "sir, defuse the bomb!"😂

  • @noice7381
    @noice7381 Год назад +32

    I remember going to the EB games at the mall to pick up the box copy of Condition Zero on launch day as a little kid. Had countless hours of fun especially on community servers. Idc about the reputation cz has now, I'll always think it's great

  • @MrBahafire
    @MrBahafire Год назад +8

    I remember having Condition Zero as a kid from my brother and while he switched to source, i just remained on CZ for at least 2 more years, I even bought the « anthology version » with condition zero and deleted scenes when i lost the game accidentally and source was already out

  • @dougler500
    @dougler500 Год назад +13

    I would REALLLLY like a single player campaign like deleted scenes for CSGO. I love the game mechanics and the way the weapons work and I bet Valve could make some great levels with everything they've learned from Half Life.

    • @bigquincybigmoney
      @bigquincybigmoney Год назад +1

      thats kind of what the operations are

    • @Billy_Wyatt
      @Billy_Wyatt Год назад

      Operation maps aka coop strike, did you play those? Because they have been pretty common since 2014.

    • @Yandi9780
      @Yandi9780 Год назад

      That will be named Operation Condition Zero

    • @dougler500
      @dougler500 Год назад +1

      @@Billy_Wyatt Where can I play them?

    • @Billy_Wyatt
      @Billy_Wyatt Год назад

      @@dougler500 Search them up on the workshop, they are tagged as coop strike

  • @Kealdiax
    @Kealdiax Год назад +6

    I played condition zero for years before I even knew about 1.6. I played competitively in CZ, making it all the way to Invite, without playing 1.6 or source. I didn't even realize how condition zero was viewed as until probably a decade later. Its kinda like the movie shallow hal when he thinks he is dating a super model but in reality hes with a fatty. ALL of my best memories in counter strike were all from CZ. I'm forever thankful for this game and the years and years of memories and friendships it brought me.

  • @avantdoodle
    @avantdoodle Год назад +6

    The bots get really good as you keep on clearing the stages and are finally able to pick the good bots. I remember playing this game a lot. I was actually introduced to this version of the counter strike first before the 1.6. Probably because there weren't many plalyable servers in India back in the day so people took comfort in playing campaign.

  • @nERVEcenter117
    @nERVEcenter117 Год назад +17

    I am absolutely certain that the loss of dedicated servers and the imposition of matchmaking is what has sucked the soul from multiplayer gaming. Casual fun without any pressure and while chatting with a bunch of people you get to know, and occasionally triggering some bonkers mod scripts, is what made early multiplayer shooters great. I need to try this.

    • @lukebruce5234
      @lukebruce5234 Год назад

      FCK VALVE

    • @licksludgee
      @licksludgee Год назад

      You are 1000% correct. The example I give is to compare BF2 or BF2142 to Battlefield 3. That's the moment where the magic died for me personally, dedicated servers gone, admin mods gone, browser based server list? So much of what we loved gone. Heartless in comparison. And it's not just that series

  • @gautamvaze1101
    @gautamvaze1101 Год назад +12

    This was my first CS game. I've got too many fond memories of my brother playing Pool or Iceworld while I watched in awe. I came back to CSGO years and years later and I love it but its not the same vibe as CZ.

  • @pedrolycus
    @pedrolycus Год назад +13

    This was my favorite CS, by far. The first one I bought and the reason my Steam is old as it is. Great memories

  • @mohammed2242
    @mohammed2242 Год назад +7

    My brother and I literally spent our entire childhoods playing this game. We only had one machine and we'd keep fighting to play extra turns. Sometimes I'd control the movement and let him control the mouse 😂 good times.

    • @ark_4281
      @ark_4281 Год назад

      I used to invite my freinds over and we legit did the same thing, me on keyboards, one guy on mouse. Good times man

  • @MrMaxim
    @MrMaxim Год назад +1

    I used this game to introduce Counter-Strike to my newbie friends because of that campaign! Once they got good enough they were allowed to play with the adults lol.

  • @brostudynow
    @brostudynow Год назад +5

    brother I'm from India and the nostalgia which i get after looking at this game is just omg i can't express it in my words . i was 11 back then when me and my sister back then she was 15 we both loved to play counter strike zero condition .
    the only name i remember to this date is maverick who always was a great bot to use but sometimes he would die
    back then i had only completed around 3 to 4 map in expert mode i guess i was on the house map i couldn't complete it so i have alot of memories with this game i can't describe it in my words

    • @nandi7772
      @nandi7772 Год назад +1

      Same. I would also spectate maverick after I die because of his risky playing style.

    • @gauravagrawal6401
      @gauravagrawal6401 Месяц назад

      yeah bro, maverick, tex, jake, sam haha

  • @MightAngel
    @MightAngel Год назад +2

    Single player mode missions were extremely valuable for those who didn't play online. I was one of them, and that definitely helped kept my shooting game skills somewhat. The expert ridiculous missions were really weird to play, and hiring better bots were always better than hiring more, so long as you carried as the player. And, always buy the kit

  • @chytruseczek
    @chytruseczek Год назад +4

    I'm polish and i remember going to my parents friends dinner party just to hang out with their older son and play this game. We didn't have PC in our house back then. So many good memories. This is what for sure spiked my interest into a FPS genre. Now I have over 2k hs in CSGO and reached DMG highest.

  • @weathercat4
    @weathercat4 Год назад +1

    One of the servers I was an admin on 20 years ago apparently still exists in a small capacity. Condition Zero was my favorite version of Counter Strike. One of my favorite things was loading up awp_map on lan and spawning 30 bots with knifes and practicing headshots before you got swarmed.

  • @balalaika4623
    @balalaika4623 Год назад +17

    This was my first CS game, I used to play it all the time as a kid - I would pretend the AI were my friends and I would always assign personalities to them. I was lonely :(

    • @Interloper322
      @Interloper322 Год назад +4

      Lmao as an only child I did this too with CS bots

  • @jonas3543
    @jonas3543 Год назад +5

    This made my evening. The nostalgia is real, I did play CZ back when it came out. But we all quickly went back to 1.6
    The modded servers with levels and weird magic skills where the best. I also remember being banned randomly just for being good, and the servers where people knew each other just by their nick and voice. Gaming really was something else back then

  • @JustAPokemonCommentingOnVideos
    @JustAPokemonCommentingOnVideos Год назад +11

    This game was my first ever counter-strike game the memories are insane :)

  • @Fapelele
    @Fapelele Год назад +1

    Oh CS CZ was my childhood! Anyone else remember playing hours on end on cs_assault? People would welcome you back to the server, some of the special server skins were mental, and the custom SFXs Mmmmoonnnsterrr Killllllllll... Was invited into my first clan at 13-14 just by gaming on their servers. You even had zombie special servers and other unique game modes like SURF, Scout n Knives, Gun Game. Might have to re-download and go surfing :D
    I had forgotten how hard I grinded that campaign, I think the bots may have had some kind of cheat at the high difficulty like walls/aimbot especially for the last few maps.
    Edit: dont forget the unique quirky maps such as 747 or prodigy

  • @chazkaoni8807
    @chazkaoni8807 Год назад +14

    That comparison to making contact with an undiscovered tribe was absolutely on point. It was a pure vessel of gaming enjoyment. Most modern comparisons are so degenerate, sweaty, and toxic these days...

  • @Nikke-nn5mn
    @Nikke-nn5mn Год назад +2

    It's kinda hard to forget CSCZ when every 2 weeks there's a new "THE COUNTER STRIKE YOU FORGOT" video out.

  • @theblindlucario5093
    @theblindlucario5093 Год назад +4

    Actually was the first CS I played. We had it downloaded on the school computers and would do LAN games during study hall or lunch, good times

  • @blockify
    @blockify Год назад

    "Two bomb sites, and a mid." - Thank you WarOwl, for that imagery.

  • @HaidukeNT
    @HaidukeNT Год назад +3

    It was my first CS. I spent around 500 hours on this game as a kid.

  • @kyandrew7942
    @kyandrew7942 Год назад

    This will never be forgotten because here in the Philippines condition zero can be played in smaller internet cafes and are played by groups of friends who go in the smaller cafes

  • @wnihaunter3943
    @wnihaunter3943 Год назад +33

    man the nostalgia hits hard, this was my first cs game, even before 1.6. kenny was the goat with his shotgun fr
    Edit: I'm Indian btw

    • @earthling_parth
      @earthling_parth Год назад +6

      Oh yes, Kenny and his bloody one-pump shotgun 😂

    • @anish.d
      @anish.d Год назад +6

      Maverick dude. Maverick. Greatest wild card

    • @gauravagrawal6401
      @gauravagrawal6401 Месяц назад +1

      @@anish.d tex too

  • @muelleer
    @muelleer Год назад +1

    Wow, you are rolling out banger videos more frequent than ever, I can't keep up

  • @Benobot99
    @Benobot99 Год назад +4

    I love Condition Zero, lmao.

  • @bokfink1
    @bokfink1 Год назад +1

    I love that Ricochet gameplay bomb drop in the middle there. So on point 😂😂

  • @Buson94
    @Buson94 Год назад

    Will never forget CS:CZ because it's the first CS i got really into because a classmate played it almost everyday with his clan "Tafelrunde" and introduced me to the CS franchise. Some of you might remember maps like de_camelot, de_stargate_atlantis or fun_matrix_* that were made by uPd4t3d_data who's part of that clan as well. Unfortunately my classmate Dave_Danielson died of cancer a few years ago, so i always feel a bit of sorrow when seeing CSCZ pop up somewhere, RIP my man

  • @RaimaNd
    @RaimaNd Год назад +1

    I remember we had a challenge going on and wanted to be rank 1 in the electronic sports league in any league (5on5 mr12, m15, eas 1 div, 3on3, 2on2, 3on3 fml) and we also had to play CSCZ for that. We managed to get rank 1 in EU and germany but that game was so bad. Barely anyone played it (we were like 17 teams while 1.6 had thousands) and the maps and models were very uncommon for 1.6 player.

  • @LightLeo111
    @LightLeo111 Год назад +1

    CZ is basically this "frankenstein" of ideas that were planned for the console version. That's why it has single-player focused elements. Like, Bot AI didn't exist officially on PC until CZ came out which I believe Turtle Rock Studios designed for "Xbox CS" and then eventually made its way to CZ for PC. (Bots were beta tested in 1.6 explicitly for the release of CZ)
    Once you view CZ as a kind of "port" which had content intended for console, then it makes sense. I think CZ would've had lasting power too if CS:S wasn't just around the corner.
    Ultimately for Valve, CZ was kinda a "cashgrab" before their Source stuff came out. It was just a mishmash of concepts by totally different dev teams that Valve just took everything they had made and through it into a new package and called it a day.

  • @Shinyworldwide
    @Shinyworldwide Год назад

    *warowl kills a hostage*+
    me: "oh, ok fuze..."

  • @romanpetryga2095
    @romanpetryga2095 Год назад +1

    I have really fond memories with CS:CZ as I didn't have any shooters at the time and it came bundled with my Sapphire Radeon card at the time. I never got to play it online as for some reason I could never get Steam to function, however I enjoyed the single player missions extremely fun, beating them over and over. Thanks for covering CZ and reminding us of the true gem it was, maybe there'll be a resurgence in some good ol' MP gaming.

  • @kadavercade3597
    @kadavercade3597 Год назад

    Played this on a computer cafe back then, the store owner had a mini tournament back then. It was purely an m249 match(because more bullets more chance of killing). When 1 guy got an awp, every kid in that tournament had an awp.

  • @chytruseczek
    @chytruseczek Год назад +1

    I used to be so confused by the chunkiness of the grenades in this game XD it feels like throwing bricks

  • @BigQrem
    @BigQrem Год назад +1

    I will never want to forget this game.
    It's my first ever played Counter-Strike game, so many memories with my big cousin.
    Love this game very much.

  • @Saskajohn
    @Saskajohn Год назад +1

    Your series on deleted scenes is one of my favourite things on RUclips! I’m definitely buying this now thanks :)

  • @vw4713
    @vw4713 Год назад

    I did actually try to describe Condition Zero to a friend of mine the other day. I told him about the Swedish CZ-community. All the clans, all the community servers with [SWE] in their name, the basic homepages every clan used to let people apply for a try out in the forums, other clans to apply for a pcw and their past results against other Swedish clans. I want to remember there was actually some sort of unofficial leauge system aswell. Oh man, the Swedish community in CZ was wonderful. You got to know a lot of people, everyone sort of knew each other or just recognized one and other because of the community servers. No mean to brag, but when I started to be recognized on these servers and clans reached out to me about being a member I was such a proud 14-15 year old. It was such good vibes and wonderful people of all ages.

  • @dhanjustinereyes4305
    @dhanjustinereyes4305 Год назад +1

    I never forget that game. I used to put skins on the game's directory.

  • @CozMyN
    @CozMyN Год назад +1

    your deleted scenes series is epic

  • @IND12222
    @IND12222 Год назад +1

    In India Cs cz was very popular back in the days like 2010- 2016 something we friends or cousin used to play this game in own pc or gameCafe
    Great memories ❣️

  • @At_Tar_Ras
    @At_Tar_Ras 10 месяцев назад +1

    im pretty sure this was my first counter strike when i was about 6 or 7 years old. i'd ofc play the campaign but i'd also (idk how i knew how to do it at such a young age) set up a lobby of me vs like max enemy bots that weren't allowed to buy weapons, and just watch them chase me as i gun them down like pseudo zombies before zombie games were even a thing.
    good times :')

  • @RSx94
    @RSx94 Год назад

    Played lots of CS CZ during 2009 - 2010.
    I remember a gungame server with custom loading music and I've been looking for that song ever since.

  • @shivaswaroopnk
    @shivaswaroopnk Год назад +2

    My first ever Counter strike game was condition zero. My brother introduced me to this and I played this on his computer all evening during summer. It’s really nostalgic looking back. Now I’m an MG on CSGO and I love this game with all my heart

  • @rnrbeast
    @rnrbeast Год назад +1

    Got this game at 10 yo in the "Counter-Strike 1 : Anthology" bundle (with CS 1.6) and I absolutely loved it, i quickly got into the community mods like deathrun, surf, etc... Today I am 23 and I still hop on CZ when I have time, by pure nostalgia ♥️

  • @dnleet
    @dnleet Год назад

    those community servers you played on remind me of a 1.6 server i used to play on like almost a decade ago called 'counterstrikedudes'. as a teen from back then, i had so much interesting and fun conversations and moments with people from the other side of the world. might check if the server is still alive today

  • @AQGamer525
    @AQGamer525 10 месяцев назад +1

    Tbh, this is my first CS. I actually playing when i was 6 years old and now i'm 18

  • @hussainwarawala773
    @hussainwarawala773 Год назад

    I was in the second grade and I saw my late uncle play this game on his pc. I loved the visual so much I got the setup in my pendrive and as soon as I went home I installed the game and started playing... I was just a kid in second grade so recruiting bots, heck even the concept of "bots" was so over my head. I remember I used to wander the lobbies and hallways of office and prodigy alone checking every corner while I was legitimately scared of finding somebody or getting killed... I still have a copy of this game in my laptop and whenever I'm done with the world I just load up the game and have a good killing spree with bots with different weapons. It's just so fun and pure and nostalgic to me

  • @electrotechnicz
    @electrotechnicz Год назад

    You playing prodigy really brought back memories from *cough* 1.6 …. How awesome that map was … as_oilrig too 😢😢😢 and that western map whose name I can’t remember for the love of me… spent so many hours with it… that really was different times where you would just enjoy the game…

  • @Мирич-з4е
    @Мирич-з4е Год назад +1

    2:42 If this came out in 2001 then we wouldn't talked about CS 1.6, because it would not exist at all. In 2001 it was released CS 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3.
    4:33 Bro, CS 1.6 was released a year earlier (2003). And it was already and out of date game, because it runs on the exact same GoldSrc engine from HL1, which means it has the same 1998 graphics. CS CZ looks like game from 2000. They should've just named it CS, and that should've been the CS released in 2000 instead of the 1.0.

  • @KillFrenzy96
    @KillFrenzy96 Год назад +1

    This was one of my childhood games. The bots were actually pretty fun to play with. I finished the game all on expert, and it was quite a fun challenge. Back then, I only had access to dial-up internet so it wasn't easy to play online.

  • @DeanAmx
    @DeanAmx Год назад

    “Who’s playing counter-strike for single player??” Man that stabbed me in the heart badly

  • @ethannelson8656
    @ethannelson8656 Год назад +1

    "It's kinda the same way stupid people think of ChatGPT"
    If only I had a dollar for every person who genuinely thought ChatGPT was alive.

  • @ChillerKarnickel
    @ChillerKarnickel Год назад

    Dude. I remember playing this. Killing enemies that are blinded by flashbang was so ruff.

  • @flufo
    @flufo Год назад

    I remember playing the hecc out of the single player mode when I was a child, internet was a mystery so playing online was out of the question, thank you for making such neat videos all the time they're always lovely to watch

  • @ThePhazed
    @ThePhazed Год назад

    No literally your little ending rant / statement was perfect lol that is the exact state of games rn

  • @machaoverlord5925
    @machaoverlord5925 Год назад

    this is basically my teenage game on my 2008 laptop replaying and malding at expert missions

  • @DarkPhoenix1515
    @DarkPhoenix1515 Год назад

    As a child I really couldn't understand the connection to DUCKs every time I died.

  • @raiyu1985
    @raiyu1985 Год назад

    I like what you said towards the end. "Untouched woth modern gaming" What a golden line.

  • @ccloudleaf
    @ccloudleaf Год назад

    Dude, mentioning the old style of play, getting off school and joining your local server... then the Starcraft music on top of that. You get me every time with the Terran theme. It's so weird I remember Counter Strike Condition Zero. Was this version on the console? I remember playing CS on my Xbox at some point too. Weird I've been around CS most my life if I think about it. I think CZ is where I fell in love with Iceworld. I feel like CZ might have existed in a very weird space where they wanted to make content for people who were scared of multiplayer or didn't have internet.

  • @owenchief
    @owenchief Год назад

    amazing video, i didnt play CZ either, but i get so much of your references as I turned 40 not long ago and it was half life that got me into gaming, tfc that started me on my path to online shooters all of us on 200-250 ping on our 56k modems
    when you talk about just enjoying the game.. i still game to this day, and even with my daughter we play valorant/overwatch or fortnite etc together (can't really get her into cs) but the whole thing has changed these days with the "ranked" stuff "full of tryhard sweaty nerds who will never be an esports player" god damn.. what a line its perfect
    people still proclaim steam the greatest but forget that we all cried hard that we were going to lose our wonID's to get a steamID instead, gaming just felt simpler back then.. ranked was kept to having to join a team and play in some obscure wireplay or jolt league (or ukcsl/uktfcl), great video @TheWarOwl

  • @buckuszugus8231
    @buckuszugus8231 Год назад +1

    played cscz quite long time had a big german community around cscz , over 6k hrs in cscz :D

  • @Xyos212
    @Xyos212 Год назад +2

    The Xbox version of this actually was really fun at the time, and innovated with the buying wheel, which was later picked up by CSGO. It was very well thought out, great QOL thing for a controller and even a mouse in the future. You could use the triggers to buy primary/secondary ammo too.

  • @zata4ul
    @zata4ul Год назад

    I love condition zero and deleted scenes. I'm pretty sure I got it with orange box or some other bundle in early 2010's and really digged the single player modes, even though my English wasn't that great back than (I think I started playing at like 5 or 6 grade, but only really started comprehending English at 9th grade) so I didn't understand much nor could I enjoy story, but I had a blast playing on different servers, but I always came back to one specific modded server with turrets and shit on which I spent a ton of time. I returned to it many times, even during and after experiencing GO, CZ is just that good, and I was able to understand and enjoy deleted scenes fully, and you bet I loved it. Haven't played in a few years, but happy to see videos first from anomaly, then some other CS youtubers and now you, WarOwl, who I've been watching all the old content for the last few months... probably actually half a year by now, it makes me happy seeing famous youtubers enjoying and having fun playing the game, CZ really deserves attention and love.

  • @SyyLux
    @SyyLux Год назад

    that WAS a perfect closure! with the HEADSHOT sound fading off :O YOU GOT YOUR FIRST CLOSURE!

  • @caangelesPH
    @caangelesPH Год назад +1

    5:57 hits hard

  • @nesnalica
    @nesnalica Год назад

    i showed a younger frined of mine who grew up with CSGO how CS used to be in the past by just joining a 1.6 lobby which was still up and running. It was like going into a bar, playing CS, chatting with the people and having a great time.
    I miss this in CSGO. doesn't really exist anymore.

  • @PrimoVerde87
    @PrimoVerde87 Год назад

    4000h plus on this one and I still play it to this day. Only one Polish server left, but close to night Time, its full of players. My fav CS version.

  • @FCKHERBIE
    @FCKHERBIE Год назад

    Condition Zero was my first introduction to counter-strike and I played it until CS:GO released. Have so many memories playing dust2 24/7 and the many random gamemodes (Warcraft/Zombies/Jailbreak/and a mode similar to the source mod The Hidden). Bounced between this and 1.6.

  • @Mathroy
    @Mathroy Год назад +1

    I have amazing memories of this game growing up. Most of them were from Zombie Mod. After a couple years I got enough money to buy a Visa prepaid credit card at my local gas station and bought Counter-Strike Source.
    I then started playing all those amazing mods, Zombie Escape, Gun Game, Surf, Prison Escape, etc... Ahh the memories...

  • @TheLPCGAMING
    @TheLPCGAMING Год назад

    the clip of you murdering the hostage killed me 🤣🤣

  • @wildzilla911
    @wildzilla911 Год назад

    im 43 now ..been playing cs condition zero for around 20 yrs ..playing csgo for 4 years ...ive been always longing for such video from you owl ...thank you ...cscz was the top online game in sweden for years and years ..due to its public servers and comunity ..i would never forget the sensation we had on cscz .

  • @xJokerzWild
    @xJokerzWild Год назад

    "nobody likes bot AI"
    *Laughs in STALKER AI*

  • @croma2068
    @croma2068 Год назад

    7:30 Yo, that map is cs_crackhouse! That's an absolute classic!

  • @DrMario-
    @DrMario- Год назад +2

    I’d be totally down for another Counter Strike story mode.

  • @lazarbro
    @lazarbro Год назад +1

    Protip: if you want to do a 1.6 LAN, use this game. It is insanely convenient to set up and lot of fun