Lock n Load

It’s eighteen minutes past 3, and I can still hear the guns reloading and being fired in the two rooms next to me. It was not very long before when I too used to stay awake at this time engaged in that very business. Definitely it’s “Counter Strike” which is keeping all of them awake till now. And I bet that no time can be better for writing a blog about it.

I’d always heard about gaming over LAN and I finally managed to experience it last year and it was none other than the most widely played tactical first-person shooter game “Counter Strike” or simply CS. Finally a new task added to my daily routine. Late night CS became more of an addiction than an entertainment itself. In no time I acquired all shooting skills and in rare cases anyone survived once I’ve spotted them. My friends always admired my assaulting, stealth and other skills but kept on warning me about my lack of strategies. I never understood what they meant until one day an enemy ambushed me, that too with a knife. If you’ve ever played CS you’ll know that it is the most absolutely horrible thing that can happen to you in this game. I learnt watching my back from that incident. Soon my strategies started getting better and it really helped out my clan and me to win rounds. We “practiced” near about 10 hours daily in order to sharpen our game-play techniques. We won several matches against different clans and were on the top of the tree in no time. You know it’s really very exciting when you’re the only one left in your team and all of a sudden you win the round with three consecutive headshots that too with a DEAGLE.

Days passed, and this CS mania began to die out in me. Up until today I couldn’t really figure out the reason, was it academics or just me. Sometimes playing one or two rounds on my friend’s system feels awesome however I am no more interested in playing it for playing’s sake. Now every time the server re-spawns and the guns cock it feels like something is missing. CS is no more, it’s Locked n it can’t Load…