The games of the Counter-Strike series have at all times been famous for their entertainment, which was especially emphasized by home-made movies with highlights. In the early 2000s, such videos were almost the only visual aid on how to shoot at all, and at the same time the main motivator for players who wanted to get into esports. Fragmovies were carefully transferred on disks and hard drives, thrown over the local network to friends, literally peered to the holes and, of course, just listened in the background. Now it’s hard to believe in it, but it was the highlighter movies that became the first navigator in the world of music for many olds. Do not be surprised, because we are talking about that dense time, when there was no YouTube, Spotify, Facebook or VKontakte.
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I remember how almost every movie made me and my friends ecstatic like “Wow! What is this track? ” Sometimes the music sounded so much that we cut out the audio track from the video, saved it in MP3 with all the sounds of the shots and other design, and then listened in turn at breaks through the player. I didn’t understand it then, but this is partly how the musical tastes of my generation (or, at least, the environment) were formed. Analyzing this experience a little, I wanted to remember which musical groups or individual tracks were in the greatest demand among the creators of old Counter-Strike movies. To my surprise, the genre spectrum turned out to be quite diverse, but some obvious tendencies can still be traced. In this article, I have identified five bands whose music I have most often met in the highlight selections.
Nightwish
Nightwish is a Finnish band, a brilliant representative of symphonic and power metal, whose distinctive feature is female vocals. It is her tracks that we heard in almost every third movie with highlights. Epic intros are great for intros and warming up the audience, and losses miraculously fall on gunfights. The operatic singing of Tarja Turunen added to what is happening on the screen a special epic and a certain sublimity. In a word, Nightwish’s music seemed to have been created from the very beginning to decorate the highlights in Counter-Strike. In the videos, I met about a dozen of the band’s compositions like The Kinslayer, Once, Over The Hills And Far Away, Stargazer, 10th Man Down, Nightquest, Wishmaster, She is my sin and others. It was especially epic when movie creators took music from concerts. Then the frags were accompanied by shouts of the crowd and applause, which immediately gave +100 to the atmosphere.
aAa’s Frag Collection (2002)
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