Call of Duty: Black Ops vs Counter-Strike
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Black Ops puts you in a different place to all of the other Call of Duty games. Here you are in the 1960’s cold war era and there are dark shadows moving. You step into the role of a CIA agent on the hunt for a dangerous enemy.Though the setting is different you still have all of the gameplay and features of the series that you love. There is an extensive single player campaign, that you can also complete in co op and a huge multiplayer section too. The campaign allows you to control a variety of characters in different locations all over the world and follows primarily the adventures of Alex Mason a CIA operative trying to stop a deadly plot. The multiplayer version of the game has all the experience points and game modes you love with the option to earn and spend COD points for even better gear. One of the best games in the series this departure from the norm is an experience you do not want to miss.
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike is one of the the pioneers of the team-based multiplayer, action-shooter game genre and it is thanks to these games that we now have games like Combat Arms or even Blacklight. That said, you probably have heard of Counter-Strike so I'll keep this simple. The game places you into a team - either as Terrorists or Counter-Terrorists - before the match and your team will be given an objective to do, be it taking out enemy sites, rescue hostages or simply taking out the other team. For the "vanilla" version of Counter-Strike, the multiplayer community is pretty nice overall and definitely not as toxic as in the latest installment.However, the graphics can be rather painfully outdated in this game. So, unless you are feeling nostalgic or if you don't really mind old graphics, then Counter-Strike might just be the game for you.