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Counter-Strike 2
Valve's free-to-play Source 2 tactical shooter, built for buttery high-refresh competitive play.
- Developer
- Valve
- Publisher
- Valve
- Released
- 2023
- Genre
- Tactical Shooter, FPS
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Valve's free-to-play Source 2 tactical shooter, built for buttery high-refresh competitive play.
Counter-Strike 2 is the Source 2 successor to CS:GO, rebuilding two decades of round-based 5v5 gunplay on a modern engine with volumetric sub-tick smoke, revamped lighting, and refreshed maps. Economy management, spray control, and disciplined map control still decide matches, and success hinges on raw frame rate as much as aim: CS2 rewards the highest, most consistent FPS you can sustain. Because the simulation and networking run largely on the CPU, this is a title where a fast processor matters as much as — often more than — the GPU.