Counter-Strike 1.6 now playable at Android devices

Yes , you heard it right ! Now you can try play at your android phone . A coder name Alibek Omarev make it happen . 

To be successful at Counter-Strike, you need tremendous reflexes and hand-eye coordination. That's why the shooter has always thrived on PC, where players can use tricked out monitors, keyboards and mice. In comparison, if there's one platform that's ill-suited for the game, it has to be Android. Still, that hasn't stopped one plucky developer from making a port anyway. It's based on Counter-Strike 1.6 -- Global Offensive will have to wait -- and requires not only a copy of the original game, but also some technical trickery. If you're up to the challenge, you can grab the APK here.

Creator Alibek Omarev has posted a video of the game running on an Android tablet. It looks, well, just as fiddly as you might expect. The game uses touchscreen controls for a surprisingly competent adaptation of the shooter's control scheme. Movement and strafing seem fairly smooth, and weapons can be changed and fired with a tap. the downside is that the screen looks fairly cluttered with the control icons ghosting over the gameplay.

If you require the finesse of a mouse and keyboard in your team-based shooters, Omarov's build supports physical peripherals if use a USB on-the-go adaptor (though at that point, it surely defeats the purpose of having Counter-Strike on your phone) and there's a tremendous amount of slowdown. Regardless, it shows what can be done on Android hardware these days. To make the game truly playable, however, you might want to try connecting a Bluetooth keyboard or gamepad. Unless you're happy to lope around the map and take an endless stream of headshots, that is.

As we know The 1.6 version of the game was released in 2013, the final (to date) update to a game first released in 2000. The game still has a dedicated fanbase, even though the franchise as a whole has evolved, with the most recent core release, 2014's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, being a fixture of esports leagues.