Coder brings 'Counter-Strike' to Android

Coder brings 'Counter-Strike' to Android

To achieve success at Counter-Strike, you need notable reflexes and hand-eye coordination. It's why the shooter has continually thrived on laptop, in which gamers can use tricked out monitors, keyboards and mice. In evaluation, if there may be one platform that is unwell-perfect for the sport, it needs to be Android. Nonetheless, that hasn't stopped one plucky developer from creating a port besides. It is based on Counter-Strike 1.6 -- international Offensive will must wait -- and requires not handiest a replica of the authentic sport, but also some technical trickery. In case you're as much as the undertaking, you may seize the APK here.

Writer Alibek Omarev has posted a video of the game strolling on an Android tablet. It appears, properly, just as fiddly as you would possibly count on. The display screen is plagued by tiny touchscreen controls -- these are absolutely customisable, Omarev explains on Reddit -- and there is a brilliant quantity of slowdown. Regardless, it shows what can be completed on Android hardware nowadays. To make the game without a doubt playable, however, you would possibly need to attempt connecting a Bluetooth keyboard or gamepad. Unless you are satisfied to lope around the map and take an countless flow of head-shots, this is.