There are a few other issues with these challenges. It's not like the sniping challenge takes place on a level particularly suited to sniping, for instance. These go a long way towards adding a new level of sophistication to the game but some of the challenges seem kind of arbitrary. On some levels, you may have to win a round within a certain amount of time on others you may have to kill a certain number of enemies with a particular weapon. Each level also has a few specific challenges (geared towards the difficulty level) that you must complete.
At the most basic level, you'll need to win at least two more matches than your opponents in order to complete a level. I'd really like to have seen an extra option that allows you to buy specific equipment for your team but there's a nice range of weapons at all point levels so you can create the team that suits you. Each comes rated in a number of areas: skill, bravery and teamwork, and has a preferred weapon. Those that cost one point are pretty terrible those that cost four points are pretty damn good. There are a number of bots here that you "buy" to take with on a mission. You're usually up against half-a-dozen or so of terrorists but you can take along some back up. Each mission requires you to defuse a bomb, rescue hostages, you know, the usual Counter-Strike stuff. At each new level, the challenge level increases until, by the end, even veteran Counter-Strike players will be sweating. You have to complete each set of three missions before moving up to the next tier. A series of six graded challenges takes the player through eighteen total missions. The new offline modes of play are intended to ease players into the merciless world of online play. And that's the real issue - if you can see past the "nothing else" to appreciate the new things that the game offers. Now Valve has now released an updated version of the game that includes some new offline modes, plenty of competent bots and pretty much nothing else. Part of the success of the game was that it was built on one of the best shooters around part of it was that it was free to download and play.
Though it wasn't everyone's cup of tea, twitchy action gamers around the world loved the title. For them that don't know (and shame on you, by the way), Counter-Strike is a wildly popular online shooter built on the original Half-Life technology.