Recent reviews by pirojok

Created as a successor of Counter-Strike series and heavily updated over two years of existence, CS:GO is made for people who enjoy teamwork and tactical shooter genre.

The basis of the game is a 5v5 competitive mode, which is presented with matchmaking system allowing you to quickly find a 5v5 game with people of similar skill level. Before jumping in competitive you'd want to play some casual games, learn the basics, choose good mouse sensitivity and be ready to play for a team, communicate.
CS:GO has a giant skill-gap between newcomers and experienced players but it is vincible if you are curious in learning.

Being the basis, competitive is not a mandatory by any means. There are a lot of casual modes to explore the game in different ways and have fun, starting with the "gunning" ones:
- arms-race mode to try out variety of different weapons,
- demolition, defuse mission and hostage rescue - team modes with different goals,
- deathmatch - run-n-gun mode,
- team deathmatches with specific weapons,
- 1v1 arenas, etc.

And a non-shooting servers:
- my favourite KZ where you try to pass some tricky climbing map (with checkpoints) and improve your time on it,
- surf and b-hop servers,
- mini-games with different goals and scenarios,
- knife servers,
- zombie-escape, jailbreak and whatnot...

Bottom line, CS:GO is a very addicting game, a crazy time killer. Try at your own risk. :P