NeoTokyo Retrospective

Counter-Strike.  I won’t be talking about it today, but it’s completely impossible to discuss the masterpiece that is Neotokyo without abording the subject of its ancestor, the venerable guru of gaming wisdom that is CS – a game that bore hundreds of gaming industry bastard lovechildren, stole their girlfriends, and ran off to Zanzibar.  More than ten years on, it remains the undisputed champion of team based first person gaming.  It’s spawned clone after clone, copy after copy, and mod after mod, and still emerged triumphant.

It isn’t surprising then, that most challengers to CS’ blood-soaked throne have done their utmost best to differentiate themselves from the reigning champion, the Sauron of the FPS world.  Not so with Neotokyo.  It takes on the master head on, guns blazing, and emerges, if not quite unscathed, with its head held high, a Rocky of the modding world against Valve’s Creed.

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