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Cyberpunk Counter-Strike Mod NeoTokyo Is Free To Play On Steam

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Ghost In The Shell fans would welcome this Mod to the 10 year old Counter-Strike: Source. This got my attention since I am sort of a fan of the anime series, but a real fan of Counter-Strike which I consider to be the best FPS multiplayer game of all time, even if it's a mod of the Half-Life series. The original Counter-Strike is already 15 years old, having been released in 1999 and it's still going strong. It's still the standard fare for professional video gamers, especially in South Korea.

NeoTokyo is the mod I am pertaining to and its creators have released it on Steam this month free to play for everyone, as long as they're prepared to get fragged the moment they enter a game. NeoTokyo is not really a new mod as it was first released in 2009, though it didn’t get much traction, especially with the release of some blockbuster FPS titles such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series and Battlefield.

NeoTokyo has a Cyberpunk theme and situated in Japan in the not so distant future. There are two factions battling it out in this game --- the NSF and JINRAI and the uniforms are also how Japanese anime artists would design such Cyberpunk theme.

The game uses the all time favourite game formats: Capture the Flag and Team Deathmatch. Capture the Flag is actually called Capture The Ghost where they retrieve the Ghost which is a Gynoid Torso and bring it to the base but also allows the team to wipe out the opposing team to win a game. When you get fragged, you can only respawn in between games, rather than during the game which most Capture the Flag games allow.

NeoTokyo also deviates from the usual Counter-Strike format as it has a class-system: Assault, Recon and Support and each class or role will have its own special abilities, loadout and stats. They have Thermal-Optic Camouflage and each class has specialized Vision Modes: Night Vision, Thermal Imaging, Motion Detection.

This game requires a lot of teamwork in order for one to win  in game and tactical play will have to be executed well. Communicating with other members in the team will be important, there are no mini-maps and there are no radars that would help you navigate and determine the proximity of friend or foe.

If you're already bored playing Call of Duty: Ghosts, Battlefield 4, and Titanfall multiplayer games and waiting for the next titles of these franchises, you may want to try NeoTokyo whilst waiting. Sometimes, it’s nice going back to the FPS multiplayer game that started it all, albeit with a new mod that takes you into the future. That's back to the future in video games.

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