Counter-Strike Trailers

Official Counter-Strike trailers in release order – from the CS:GO reveal in 2011 and the operation shorts to Counter-Strike 2's feature videos and launch trailer.

Updated 3 November 20262 sources
Image: Valve / YouTube

Valve posts Counter-Strike's official trailers on its own YouTube channel. Counter-Strike doesn't have a story told through cinematics – instead, the big moments are reveal and launch trailers, short animated films for CS:GO operations, and the feature videos that introduced Counter-Strike 2. Below are 9 official videos, numbered in release order.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

2011–2021
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Trailer2011
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive launch trailerAugust 2012
CS:GO – Operation Broken FangDecember 2020
CS:GO – Operation Riptide, "Fowl Play"September 2021

Counter-Strike 2

2023

The first three videos were released together on March 22, 2023, when CS2 was announced.

Counter-Strike 2: Responsive SmokesMarch 2023
Counter-Strike 2: Leveling Up The WorldMarch 2023
Counter-Strike 2: Moving Beyond Tick RateMarch 2023
Counter-Strike 2: Beyond Global2023
Counter-Strike 2 – Launch TrailerSeptember 2023

All videos are official uploads from the Valve YouTube channel, embedded with YouTube's privacy-enhanced player.

Where to start

Start with CS2The three March 2023 feature videos show what changed: smokes, tick rate and the rebuilt maps.
Beyond GlobalValve's introduction to the CS Rating that replaced the old top rank in Premier.
See the mapsLeveling Up The World shows how the classic maps were rebuilt in Source 2.

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Reference page written by AI (Claude) and checked against the sources above. Games change with every patch – the patch this page was last checked for is shown at the top.