The Counter-Strike series dates back to about 2000, during which time players have battled it out on many maps. Previous CS games have had old maps that aren’t in Counter-Strike 2’s current Active Duty pool. Not all the removed maps have necessarily been missed that much, but players hope Valve will restore some of the better ones in CS2. However, there are numerous old Counter-Strike maps you can already restore by downloading them from the CS2 workshop. These are several old Counter-Strike maps you can add to Counter-Strike 2.
Rialto
Rialto was among the Valve-created Counter-Strike maps included in Global Offensive for Operation Hydra. This is a small Wingman map set on Venice’s famous Rialto canal bridge with a bomb-planting site in the center. Most of the action takes place on and around the bridge, but there’s also a side building terrorists can enter to gain more of an elevation advantage. Terrorists and counter-terrorists can climb atop Rialto Bridge to shoot down opponents.
Aztec
Aztec is a ported CS:GO version of the Ancient Aztec map that was a part of the CS series for a long time, from Condition Zero to 2017, when Valve removed it from Global Offensive. This Counter-Strike map is an archaeological site from Central America with a similar architectural style to Ancient in Counter-Strike 2. It features considerable elevation shifts with higher and lower areas for players to shoot. However, the Aztec map seemingly hasn’t been missed so much because players have slated it for being too unbalanced in favor of the counter-terrorists.
De_Train
Train was a Counter-Strike map included in the CS 1.6, Source, and Global Offensive. De_Train is a ported CS:GO version of that map you can add to Counter-Strike 2. This map is a train station with an Eastern European (Soviet Union) setting that features a couple of bomb sites mixed in alongside carriages and containers (two of which are nuclear). Players can climb atop and around the train carriages to shoot at opponents from many angles.
The Train map
Cobblestone 2015
Cobblestone 2015 is a CS2 workshop port of the 2015 Cobblestone map version from Global Offensive. This map is set within a large country farmhouse, which looks more like a castle with statues, overground, and underground areas. It is a large map for five vs. five bomb-blasting mayhem that offers a good amount of tactical depth with expansive planting areas.
It seems Cobblestone is among the more missed old Counter-Strike maps because its CS2 workshop port has a five-star rating. Players are crying out for Valve to bring back Cobblestone in this CS2 forum thread. However, some players are also more critical of this map’s excessive size and unnecessary areas.
The Cobblestone map
CS2 Assault
CS2 Assault is the former Assault Counter-Strike map from CS:S and CS:GO, for which the creator has applied extra Source 2 graphical gloss. This Hostage Rescue mode map includes a warehouse alongside a train station. The warehouse in this map is quite a large fighting arena for terrorists and counter-terrorists to battle it out. Players can also move onto the warehouse’s roof, where they can shoot down opponents in the building through triangular windows. This isn’t a bad alternative to the CS2 Office map, but Valve probably removed Assault because it was considered a little unbalanced with too much elevation advantage for the terrorist side.
The CS2 Assault map
Lake
Lake was a popular CS:GO Wingman map Valve excluded from Counter-Strike 2, but you can at least still play it by downloading this CS2 port of the map. This is quite an expansive Wingman map with a lakeside house setting. Players attack or defend the indoor bombsite. However, the outside area of this map, which includes a garage, construction zone, and numerous rocks, is also a good fighting arena for matches.
The Lake map
Lake is probably one of the most missed old Counter-Strike maps, and its exclusion from CS2 generally didn’t go down well. There’s even a Bring Back Lake page campaigning for Valve to restore it. Thousands of players have pledged support for that campaign by pressing the Click here to pledge your support button on that page.
Cache
Cache was formerly a community-created map included in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s official Active Map pool. Today, you can still play the ported Cache map for CS2, which has a five-star rating in the Maps Workshop. This Cache map is based in the deserted Ukrainian city of Pripyat, near the Chornobyl Power Plant nuclear disaster area. It is a nuclear wasteland map with a Soviet theme.
The Cache map
Cache was one of the more iconic Counter-Strike maps featured in the ESL One New York 2019 CS:GO tournament. There’s much speculation Valve will restore Cache in Counter-Strike 2. The creator FMPONE primarily fueled this speculation by revealing images of a Cache map remake in February 2024. However, a release date for a restored Cache map remains unconfirmed.
Workout (CS2)
Workout was another of the community-created Counter-Strike maps formerly included in CS:GO. It was an official Hostage Rescue map, which you can now add to Counter-Strike 2 by downloading its unofficial CS2 port from the workshop. This is a rather large map in which players battle it out inside the Riverview Sports Center. That sports center includes a kiddies zone, basketball court, swimming pool, and free weights area. If you like big maps, Workout is worth playing on for Hostage Rescue fun and frolics.
The Workout map
You can get a blast from the past by playing those old Counter-Strike maps in CS2. The most cherished old maps are certainly welcome additions to the Counter-Strike 2 Maps Workshop. To add them to the Workshop Maps tab in Counter-Strike 2, click Subscribe on their linked pages above.
