I just hooked my PC up to the Internet (finally, it used to run on a 56K modem and that made Steam unusable), and I'm now playing Counter-Strike: Source like a madman. It is a masterpiece! I'm so addicted to it because I find that everything about it is so perfect. The community is that perfect balance between difficult and too easy, and everyone seems quite nice. The graphics are just gorgeous, and you'd be hard-pressed to prove that Valve developed the Source system without CS in mind because the whole game shines because of it. Gunfights are stunning- bodies twist and recoil just as they would in real life as smoke and debris litter the battlefield. The guns themselves look so cool you'll have fun just looking at them, but when you fire them- hoo, boy- you feel a thrill. My personal favorite weapon is the M4 (CT's only), just for the look of it. And I can rip people's heads off from across the map. But the coolest part is that you have fun no matter what. When you're playing, there's the obvious attraction of everything, but even in Spectator mode it's very cool because you can make the camera zip around like all the recent action movies. You feel like a director, actually, and the gunfights all force that feeling even more. I hope to pick up Battlefield 2 soon, but I'm starting to wonder whether or not I'll enjoy it more than CS: Source. At the very least, I want to get a City of Villains pre-order to get in on the beta. I am very happy right now.