Counter-Strike on Symbian? Yes and no!

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The Half-Life spinoff Counter-Strike is a big name in PC gaming, I know. And below is a video of it running on Symbian. Really. With 8 maps, 8 weapons and 4 skins. That's the good news. I'll save the bad news until after you watched it....

Here we go, then, and thanks to Symbian Developers for the heads-up:

The developer is TheDavo (link to his YouTube channel) and you can find the game's download link in the video description, he classes this version as beta, but it seems to run quite well, at 15fps on an N8, apparently, and faster on a 701 or 808...

The bad news is contained in the game's readme file:

Counter - Quake - Strike. How to install :

1/ Hack your phone -  http://forum.dailymobile.net/index.php?topic=69410.0    OR   http://www.n8fanclub.com/2011/09/norton-symbian-hack-by-coderus-symbian3.html

2/ Install All SIS packages  ( Counter-Strike install to E )

3/ Open Virtual keyboard and hide it with autofocus button

4/ then open "rotate screen" and choose widescreen mode

5/ Launch Counter-strike, then show "virtual keyboard" with autofocus button

6/ Single player

7/ Skirmish

PS: Before start counter-strike, is not necessary to set "rotate screen", but then, don't rotate your phone in game, because game can crash !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In other words, this isn't (yet) a regular Symbian game download, nor is it likely to be. Now, I know that some AAS readers have 'hacked' their phones, in order to install custom mods and/or firmware, so the above may not be an obstacle, but I've so far resisted doing this to any of my devices, nor would I recommend it to the uninitiated.

Plus, getting the keyboard running in the background and then popping it up seems a bit of a kludge. But what the heck, it apparently works and future updates are promised. So watch this space!

If you do download it, watch out for the usual download site 'tricks' of misleading 'Download me' style links. Only click on the link you can see downloads the file you want. You have been warned. This is no Nokia Store and you're way off the reservation here.

Comments welcome, either way! 8-)

Source / Credit: Symbian Developers