Valve announced Counter-Strike 2 on Wednesday.
Counter-Strike 2 is a massive update to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
The new game will be available on Windows as a free upgrade to CS:GO sometime this summer.
Maps were rebuilt from the ground up with new tools and features.
CS:GO was launched in 2012 by Valve and long dominated the tactical shooter genre.
Riot Games released Valorant in 2020 which tested CS:GO’s dominance with more contemporary graphics and agents with unique abilities like smokes and walls.
The announcement of Counter-Strike 2 gives the series a modern upgrade and a chance to attract newer players who weren’t interested in a decade-old game.
CS2 features dynamic, volumetric smokes that react to gunfire.