CS2D

What's in it

Who can reach your kid

What it is

This no-cost title is a quick, overhead-view online shooter that rebuilds the team-versus-team, round-structured play of Counter-Strike using flat pixel art. Participants purchase their arms and then compete across formats including planting-and-defusing missions, freeing captives, free-for-all elimination, building modes, and holding out against zombies, all hosted on servers that the community operates. Shooting sits at the center of play: participants fire lifelike guns at other human characters, and a landed shot produces a tiny, cartoonish spatter of pixel blood, without visible injuries or graphic detail. Nothing scripted into the title supplies swearing, sexual material, or drugs and alcohol. A map-building tool comes bundled, and users can load in personal 'spray' graphics to mark surfaces, which means the pictures and words that circulate among participants come from the participants themselves and pass through unrestricted typed and spoken channels that no central authority screens.

How it's framed

The title presents what happens as a stylized, round-based contest pitting a terrorist team against a counter-terrorist team; tasks such as arming or disarming an explosive function as ways to win the round rather than as staged, dramatized deeds, and no storyline is built to praise or condemn the fighting. Since the levels, spray art, and conversation all originate with the participants, whatever atmosphere emerges on a particular server comes from the people playing on it, not from anything the developers built in.

Details

Developer

Unreal Software

Publisher

Unreal Software

Released

Nov 15, 2017

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