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de_train is a fairly popular Bomb/Defusal map in the first-person shooter game Counter-Strike. Originally released with Beta 5.0 of Counter-Strike on December 23, 1999, the map was one of two (the other being cs_backalley) contributed to the mod by Barking Dog Studios who at that point were contracted by Valve to work on Counter-Strike. The map was ported over to Counter-Strike: Source by Turtle Rock Studios and released on February 24, 2005. The map is set in a train yard.

The Map

Train has two bomb sites, as is usual for Counter-Strike maps of this type. The Counter-Terrorists spawn is in a location which is a very short distance from both of these bomb sites, whereas the Terrorists have to travel a longer way to get to either, their spawn point being at the opposite end of the map. The bomb-sites are nuclear arms caches, located on two separate carriages.

Overall, this is quite a balanced map, and a strong Counter-Terrorist or Terrorist team can easily dominate the server for the entire duration of the map, at least on public servers where cooperation, skill, and teamwork are usually non-existent.

Criticism

This map is well suited to the use of the controversial AWM, due to the presence of many long corridors and passages, and large open spaces with dark areas at either end of the spaces.

References

" The CS Maps," The Official Counter-Strike web site

"Counter-Strike" (computer software), Minh Le and Jess Cliffe, 1999, [312]

" C&VG interviews Chris Mair", February 2002

See also

Counter-Strike

Counter-Strike maps

List of Counter-Strike maps