We’ve seriously been waiting for the time when we could say “Counterstrike for Android” and it wouldn’t be some lame joke. The guys over at SDlash3D have made significant inroads into porting the legendary Valve mod to Android, and it looks good on video, actually.
Allow us to make a realistic framework of the video you’ve just seen. Counterstrike and Half-Life was built to run on an x86 or x64 infrastructure. We know Half-Life already runs on Android – we’ve seen it on NVIDIA’s SHIELD devices. The question was hanging there, though: was anyone going to port Counterstrike to Android? The SDlash3D team answered the call – but realistically, they still have a ways to go before the game becomes playable on Android devices.
From the video, you can see that the basic foundation is there. The game can be launched, and the Half-Life engine is allowing stable movement around the maps (that’s de-dust2, y’all!), and the game can handle a character’s basic interaction with the environment. The network/server interaction still needs to be figured out, and multiplayer needs sorting – because Counterstrike is never good for playing alone.
Hopefully we can all see this in the near future – Christmas is too soon to hope for, but maybe Q1 of 2016? I will surely spend for this when it comes out. How about you?
VIA: XDA
