CS: Condition Zero has been delayed many times, but the recent delays have been odd since the game seemed so close to completion as early as May of this year. Ritual Entertainment has remained quiet about the status of the game for quite a while.
But no longer. "We've done our jobs," says Ritual animator zoso. "Whatever happens to the game now is not (nor will it ever be) up to ritual."
In other words, CS:CZ--as Ritual sees it--is completely done. If Ritual's not finishing the title, then who is? All sign's point to Half-Life developer VALVe Software finishing up. VALVe is likely changing the game in small ways to make it fit more within their vision of the Counter-Strike universe.
This isn't VALVe's first work on CS:CZ. After the first iteration of the game was stopped at Rogue, VALVe took over development for a few weeks before handing it off to Gearbox (read about the history of CS:CZ).
"[CS:CZ] doesn't have a solid release date," said Cliffe, one of the two original members of the Counter-Strike team. Cliffe, a recent Virginia Tech graduate, now works full time on a CS-related project at VALVe Software in Bellevue, Washington (read about the history of CS).
Some evidence of this switch can be found in your Steam cache, if you use the program. Head to
It is not known whether Counter-Strike for Xbox (E3 preview), which is based on CS:CZ, is still in the hands of Ritual Entertainment or not.
But no longer. "We've done our jobs," says Ritual animator zoso. "Whatever happens to the game now is not (nor will it ever be) up to ritual."
In other words, CS:CZ--as Ritual sees it--is completely done. If Ritual's not finishing the title, then who is? All sign's point to Half-Life developer VALVe Software finishing up. VALVe is likely changing the game in small ways to make it fit more within their vision of the Counter-Strike universe.
This isn't VALVe's first work on CS:CZ. After the first iteration of the game was stopped at Rogue, VALVe took over development for a few weeks before handing it off to Gearbox (read about the history of CS:CZ).
"[CS:CZ] doesn't have a solid release date," said Cliffe, one of the two original members of the Counter-Strike team. Cliffe, a recent Virginia Tech graduate, now works full time on a CS-related project at VALVe Software in Bellevue, Washington (read about the history of CS).
Some evidence of this switch can be found in your Steam cache, if you use the program. Head to
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamCache\email@email.com\Counter-Strike\cstrike\models\player\ to see militia and spetznaz folders (click for a picture to save your lazy ass some time). Militia and Spetznaz models are new to CS:CZ.It is not known whether Counter-Strike for Xbox (E3 preview), which is based on CS:CZ, is still in the hands of Ritual Entertainment or not.
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