Counter-Strike 2 vs Valorant: Which is better shooter in 2023?

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Valve finally pulled the curtains off the highly-anticipated Counter-Strike 2 on March 22, giving players a taste of what’s to come this summer. With the successful tactical shooter franchise getting a new iteration, players have begun to wonder about the fate of Counter-Strike’s close cousin, Valorant. Valorant was launched in 2020, making it fairly new when compared to CS: Source or CS:GO.

Many veteran CS players jumped ship to establish their ground in Riot’s tactical shooter after its release. Despite their differences, the community finds ways to compare Valorant with Counter-Strike, mostly because both titles feature the same core objectives. Now that Counter-Strike 2 is set for a release window, it’s natural for players to wonder which one of the games is a better shooter in 2023.

The first Counter-Strike game was launched in 1999 followed by a Source engine successor in 2004. After years of Counter-Strike: Source dominating the FPS space, Valve released the fourth game in the series, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, in 2012, which became the go-to for most veterans.

Over a decade after CS:GO’s iconic launch, Valve has finally decided to answer the fandom’s wishes by offering a graphically-overhauled, yet familiar, tactical shooter experience.

Counter-Strike 2 is a sequel to 2012’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and is being created using Valve’s Source 2 engine. As per the announcement, the game will launch on Windows PCs in the summer of 2023. An exact release date is yet to be revealed.

Counter-Strike strictly adheres to the tactical shooter experience, offering players the experience of realistic battlefields, violent encounters, and difficult-to-master mechanics.

Valorant, on the other hand, is a hero tactical