Counter-Strike is a game of first-person shooter in which players join terrorism or counter-terrorist team (or become a spectator). Each team tries to complete their mission objective or eliminate the opposing team. Each round starts with the two teams spawning simultaneously, usually at opposite ends of the map in the other. A player can choose to play one of eight different characters by default (four on each side, although Counter-Strike: Condition Zero added two additional models, for a total of ten). Players are generally given a few seconds before the round begins to prepare and buy equipment, during which it can not attack or walk move. They can return to the shopping area within a specified period of time to buy more equipment. Once the round has ended, surviving players retain their equipment for use in the next round, players who were killed begin the next round with the basic default starting equipment.
Monetary standard bonuses are awarded for winning a round, losing an assault, killing an enemy, by being first to ask a hostage to follow, rescuing a hostage or planting the bomb.
The scoreboard shows team results, in addition to the statistics of each player: name, kills, deaths, and ping (in milliseconds). The scoreboard also indicates whether a player is dead, carrying the bomb (bomb maps), or is the VIP , but is hiding information about the players of the opposing team by a player before his death, since this information may be important.
Killed players become “spectators” for the duration of this cycle, they can not change their names until Spawn again, text chat can not be sent or received from stakeholders live chat and voice can be received from live players and not sent to them. Spectators are generally able to see the rest of the cycle of several views to choose from, although some servers disable some of these views to prevent dead players from relaying information about living players to their teammates through alternative media (including the voice in the case of Internet cafes and Voice over IP, such as TeamSpeak or Ventrilo programs). This form of deception known as “ghost”.