This article has a talk page!This page details pre-release information and/or media for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes.
After Gearbox Software were upset about that change of direction for the single-player mode, Valve decided to give the game to Ritual Entertainment, who decided to create more traditional single-player levels out of multiplayer maps that Gearbox made prior. The game was planned to have 20 single-player missions, but was cut down to 19 and later was released with only 12 out of the planned 19 missions, with 6 of the missions being added in later updates, making the number of missions 18.
See also: Counter-Strike: Condition Zero's pre-release page.
Screenshots#
Many of the pre-release screenshots from what would eventually release as Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes show the use of Half-Life assets as placeholders, with the most prominent being Half-Life's weapons.
Screenshots from Ritual Entertainment's now-defunct forums.
Renders#
(Source: Robert M. Atkins' portfolio - CS: CZ)
Video Interview with Doug Lombardi#
Intro#
- The skybox for Building Recon is different.
- The firing sound for the AWP is different. A cut-down variant of it can be found in a prototype build for Counter-Strike's Xbox port.
Gameplay#
- At 1:32, an early main menu can be seen. This menu design was used for a monitor texture in the final game.
Models#
- The MP5 model uses placeholder textures.
- At 2:02, an early weapon selection for Slot 5 can be seen, which includes the unused syringe gun.
- Counter-Strike selection icons for existing weapons are used as placeholders.
Singleplayer#
- At this point in development, Counter-Strike 1.5 weapon models were being used as placeholders.
Cut Mission#
One of the 19, or rather, 20 planned missions for this game involved the player gunning down various Terrorists in skyscrapers with an M60 and AWP from a helicopter, only known as "Death from Above". It was set in what looks to be New York during the day, mostly reusing the skybox from the Counter-Strike map Vertigo. Any other details about it are unknown.