
Counter-Strike 2
About Counter-Strike 2
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2. A free upgrade to CS:GO, Counter-Strike 2 marks the largest technical leap in Counter-Strike’s history. Built on the Source 2 engine, Counter-Strike 2 is modernized with realistic physically-based rendering, state of the art networking, and upgraded Community Workshop tools.
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Counter-Strike 2 on Wikipedia
Counter-Strike 2 is a 2023 free-to-play first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve. It is the fifth main entry in the Counter-Strike series, produced as an updated version of the previous entry, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012). As with its predecessor, the game pits two opposing teams, the Counter-Terrorists and the Terrorists, against each other in various objective-based game modes.
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Game details
- Developer
- Valve
- Publisher
- Valve
- ESRB rating
- M
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Themes
- Action, Warfare
- Official site
- Visit
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Reception
Counter-Strike 2 screenshots
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Counter-Strike 2 player count
Counter-Strike 2 has 641,812 players in-game on Steam right now — up 15% from 24 hours ago. Its 24-hour peak was 1,424,390 concurrent players. Updated hourly.
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