Midnight Madness has announced CS:Legacy, a fully standalone fan remake of Counter-Strike 1.6 that will be coming to Steam later this year. To celebrate this announcement, the team has shared the game’s debut in-engine trailer that you can find below.
CS:Legacy is built from the ground up with 100% custom code and game assets. The game will be using Valve’s official 2013 Source Engine SDK codebase, with its own major rewrites to the renderer, shaders and various systems.
The team plans to recreate every detail of the original gameplay, while introducing modern enhancements and major technical improvements. At the same time, it aims to keep the classic CS feel that made it legendary.
As the team noted, this will be a full game and not a mod. My guess is that it will be free to everyone. However, its beta phase will be locked behind a Patreon wall. Or at least that’s what I got from its Patreon page. Moreover, CS:Legacy will first hit Steam as an Early Access game. Again, I don’t know whether the EA version will be free or not.
For what it’s worth, the following trailer looks great. It manages to retain the art style of CS 1.6, and it looks way better than it. So, all it remains now is to see how the game will play.
And that is that. Sadly, there is nothing more to share right now. There is also no specific ETA on when we can expect it. All we know is that it will hit Steam Early Access later this year.
Enjoy the trailer and stay tuned for more!
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