Classic tactical FPS and Counter-Strike rival is getting a full remaster

Tweaked, balanced, and perpetually adjusted, Counter-Strike 2 feels as much like an instrument, or a piece of fine glassware, than it does an FPS game. If Valve alters one little value over here, it tips the scale and upsets the tuning all the way over there. But there was a time when Counter-Strike was rougher, readier, and more reckless, when you could pick a gun and sprint into battle without having to compare damage values per second, or pay close attention to the minutiae of level geometry. Multiplayer shooters have become either painstakingly complex ballroom dances, or, in cases like Escape From Tarkov and Gray Zone Warfare, punishing pseudo simulators. Sudden Attack belongs to a different time, and now it's coming back.

If you played Sudden Attack two decades ago, you might have written it off as a mere Counter-Strike clone. But now, 20 years later, it looks and feels more like a loving homage to the golden era of Valve's shooter, somewhere between CS 1.6 and the pseudo sequels Source and Condition Zero. There's a problem, however. While Sudden Attack was released in North America in 2005, the FPS game's servers for that region were shut down in 2014. It's still available (and enormously popular) in its home nation of South Korea, but otherwise inaccessible. Until now.

Sudden Attack Zero Point is a full remaster and relaunch of the original shooter, and it's coming to Steam worldwide. There are team deathmatch and bomb defusal modes, a complete customization system for weapons, and it's totally free to play. Folding in elements of more modern Counter-Strike, Sudden Attack Zero Point also includes an in-game 'black market' where players can trade skins, gun parts, and other items that they earn through play.

Developed and published by Nexon, while there's no specific release date for Sudden Attack Zero Point yet, it's scheduled to be released before the end of 2025. If you want to find it on Steam already, just go here.

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