Some of the missions include surviving a helicopter crash in a terrorist controlled middle east, recovering a lost nuke in arctic Russia, or destroying drug labs in Columbia. The missions take place all over the world, and you always play as one of that region's counter terrorist forces. The campaign is once again a series of unconnected missions, but this time each mission actually has a story that you linearly progress through. It still is a proper Counter-Strike campaign, though. It's still not a great game, and probably not even worth finishing because it gets awfully repetitive towards the end. The campaign is pretty easy, short, and definitely not worth playing.ĭeleted Scenes is the reason this game is worth trying. In order to get to the next map you have to kill a certain number of enemies with a certain weapon, rescue X number of hostages, or some other mundane challenge. Each mission is just a different map (with favorites such as Office, Dust 2, Inferno, etc). The "official" campaign is nothing more than a series of offline matches of basic counter-strike where you play against bots. The strange thing is, the "official" campaign of the game made by Turtle Rock is absolutely terrible, but the "deleted" campaign made by Ritual is actually halfway decent.
The final version of the game, however, includes Ritual's scrapped campaign as a separate title "Counter-Strike Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes".
Turtle Rock proceeded to scrap Ritual's campaign, and made their own instead. Ritual Entertainment originally wanted the main focus of the game to be the campaign, but Valve didn't approve due to bad initial reviews so they sacked those guys and brought on Turtle Rock Studios.
This messy, jumbled game development is what lead to the game essentially being split in two. Counter-Strike: Source's release later that year all but buried this game, which was never popular to begin with. By that time video games had progressed a fair bit, and the graphics of CS:CZ were very outdated. Development began in 2000, the game was announced in 2001, but due to Valve constantly handing it off to different developers (including Gearbox led by Randy Pitchford), it wasn't released until 2004. The game itself actually has a pretty strange history, and I'm surprised it was ever even released. I think it was the result of part of me wanting to play some Counter-Strike, but the other part of me wanting to play a single player game. I don't know what on earth possessed me to play this game.
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