ounterstrike is my favorite game.  It is now the world's best game as well!  Well, at least it is becoming very popular in some very strange places (China/India, etc.).  But what is it about this game in particular that makes it so good?

There is 1 great reason, and many smaller reasons.  The great reason: the game's team-based action is an addictively fun design.  One of the minor reasons: maps are designed simply and small, with simple objectives.  But I want to talk about Counterstrike and Lag.

I do Lag from time to time in CS.  Even with my high-speed connection with pings around 40!  When it happens it is almost always due to a packet-loss event (I sometimes get lots of packet-loss: especially in storms).  When it happens, I almost always die (lag-death).  The game is just too fast to survive any Lag.

My point: Counterstrike is the kind of games people want to play (see the success of Battlefield series which are similar to Counterstrike).  And those kinds of games cannot tolerate even the SLIGHTEST amount of Lag!

So if you love those games: you better fight Lag!

Tytus