That’s right, you read the title right. The sequel to the insanely popular Counter-Strike will do Zombies and what more is that the official launch of Counter-Strike:Global Offensive next week will be accompanied side-by-side with the Zombie mod, which was previously planned upon but now actually coming with the launch.
Developed with the collaboration of Plaguefest.com, players will get a chance to dive in and well…get a piece of all the brain chomping, undead horror action when CS:GO goes live next week. Steam is currently offering a 10% discount to all those who will pre-order the game.
“It was important to us as we developed CS:GO to make sure it was as moddable and extensible as any CS game,” Valve noted in their blog on the official Counter-Strike site. “So this is just one of the many mods that will be available in the coming months.”
The mod will support up to 64 players at launch and one of the game modes identified was Zombie Reloaded.
In Zombie Reloaded, one player will start out as a zombie and will try to infect and spread the undead virus to all the players, while the other ‘human’ players will have to try to survive by building barricades, jumping, climbing or just by simply splattering the brains of the undead all over by shooting.
This mod, however, will only be exclusive to PC for now. No statements have been made whether these mods will make their appearance on their console counter-parts.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will raid the stores on 21st August 2012 for Microsoft Windows, MAC OS X, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 systems.