New Counter Strike 1.6 released – Steam Powered!
There is a new version of Counter Strike released v1.6. It is utilizing a new online connected model of patch updates that is supposed to minimize the cheaters ability to hack their client files in a way that allows them to get an advantage. It also seems to hint a bit at the new UI that Valve is taking with their games (ie prolly Half-Life 2). Its very clean. This is basically a full version game of Counterstrike for FREE!
Read more here, its deceptive because its called "Steam", but its really a full version of Counterstrike.
www.steampowered.com is where you get info and will ultimately be linked to the following site. The site has the download which is ~379MB. There is an option to download via BITTorrent. USE THIS. Basically this allows you to download the file simultaneously from several people all at once.
Download Counterstrike Steam Installer from this page after BitTorrent is installed. OR, get use this direct BitTorrent Link.
During the install you will need to create an account. There is a friend buddy list.