It's amazing to look back on Half-Life and its long history of impressing gamers, and still more amazing to realize that even Half-Life mods enjoy more success than full triple-A video games. Counter-Strike has long been a fan favorite, approaching the 10 year anniversary of when it first won over the hearts and minds of gamers in 2003. These days, there is still enough of a player base and enough popularity to inspire things like this free Counter-Strike wallpaper.

This is as simple as wallpapers get. You have 3 players in Counter-Strike gear, ready to unleash some devastation on the competition. Thankfully they took the time to pose for this wallpaper before heading out. While the picture itself captures the Counter-Strike spirit fairly well there are a couple of problems that even fans might have with this.

First of all, there's only one wallpaper, which is something that will exclude many fans. If you don't like this picture, there's no more to choose from. Secondly, you're looking at a wallpaper that only fits one screen resolution (1600 X 1200 widescreen), so if you don't have that resolution running it, then you're out of luck. This is going to exclude many fans of the game because this isn't a resolution that everyone will choose to run, and since there's only one wallpaper to choose from, not many people are going to change their screen resolution just to make room for a single wallpaper.

Still, there's the fact that this wallpaper is free to save it from automatic exclusion, so if you're a fan of the game, it's worth looking at and considering as an addition to your desktop wallpapers. If you're not a fan of the game, there's little reason to take the time to download this one, as it won't fit many screens anyway.