Why? Because of it's great level design? It can't be the gameplay, controlls have improved since it came out, or at least they haven't gone worse. Is it the graphics? No, it's damn ugly. Is it the people who play it? Appearently not either.

no, I have played it. Its not a great game. The game play is screw, the weapons arnt very accuracte. You can shot through walls, its easy to hack, and 1 more thing, how many times can you play ice world.....seriously.

Im telling you, the only reason, real reason, people still play that game is because their systems can handle it(lets face it, you can run CS on a 486) and they are good "or think they are". I know 40 year old men who still play that and starcraft. Why? because they are good and are afraid to start over in a a new game.

Q3, Call of Duty, Battlefield or MUCH better games in gameplay and graphics. Half Life is what 7-10 years old? Time to move on!

btw, the majority of US households now have broadband. By a slim margin, but it's finally happened. With market impetus like that, hopefully prices will start coming down.

Nice comic. And btw, the "dead is dead until the next round" notion of CS is something I (still) find pretty cool. Of course, it's not the only game that has that option these days, but I haven't played shooters online in ages. I found that the 'concentration' was higher when I was aware that dying meant waiting a minute or longer to start over again, unlike regular deathmatch where you immedeately spawn and get fraggin' again.

And the 'only game they're good at' argument doesn't go for me, I just suck at ALL mp shooters, hehe. I wouldn't compare CS and starcraft btw, starcraft is just classic..graphics in RTS games (until recently) haven't improved much anyway.