Game Mods
 

One of my favorite sections in PC Gamer in the Extended Play article. If you are unfamiliar with it, the magazine pics a few game mods each month to review. These mods are for all types of games, from FPS to RPG.

So I figured another good way to learn about all different types of mods that might be floating around out there would be to ask you guys and gals:

What are your favorite pc game mods?

I'll start with a few of my favorites:

Battlefield 1942 - Desert Combat
HL2 - Counter-Strike Source
HL - The Specialists
Freedom Force - Danger Room

I loved Desert Combat, but now I'm playing DCX (Desert Combat Extended). It was released after DC Final and has lots of improvements. Some of the things they did I didn't think possible with the engine :-)

come on guys, there is only one other person that has a favorite mod to share? If so, you guys are seriously missing out on a huge chunk of the value of pc games.

Marathon: Evil
Marathon: Rubicon

Two mods that equalled, if not surpassed, the atmosphere, action and plotlines of the title they benefitted. And that's damn well saying something.

Kung-Fu Max Payne. There can be no other.

This "Mod" if indeed it can even be called that....will be incredible if ever completed:

http://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/?p=screenshots

As if Morrowind was not large enough in scale already

thats more like it. The Tamriel project looks amazing, and thats saying alot considering Morrowind and Daggerdfall are two of my favorite RPGs ever.

Quake 2 - Rocket Arena :)

BF 1942 - Desert Combat

Quake - Team Fortress

It has been imitated with Weapons Factory, unsucessful.
Half Life tried it... again IMO Unsucessful. Nothing was as good as the original.

I haven't checked out many recent mods for new games.

I specifically remember a Quake 2 mod simply called "Weapons" - basicly every gun had like 6 different modes and all of them caused a disgusting amount of destruction. There was no order to the game, but it was sure fun throwing an atomic grenade in a room full of people.

Oh that reminds me of EXCESSIVE for Quake 3. That was a cool mod. Almost like the one Halx was describing except each weapon had one mode of fire, but did some pretty big damage. I highly recommend its fun. The shotty blast like 10 rail shots at a time, the machine gun has explosive bullets, plasma had a 3 way spray, rail gun shot at about 4~5 shots per second (did less damg to balance) way fun. People are still playing it.

A few have been already said,

Quake - Team Fortress, the original Canalzone 2 map was awesome.
Quake - Holy Wars. Great Deathmatch mode. Encourages team play and backstabbing in the same breath.
Half-life - TFC, pretty damn good remake IMO.
Half-life - Opera, love kung fu blood operas. Great take on the genre.
Half-life - Counter Strike naturally. But before bunny hoppers went insane.
Half-life - Yoda Deathmatch. Kind of odd, but for some reason, seeing Yoda's body sticking out of a wall is pretty damn funny.
BF1942 - Desert Combat, Stinger + Hind = Great fun.
Max Payne - Kung Fu. So good that the dev makers gave a shout out in the second one.

Oh man, how could I forget Yoda Deathmatch?!

"Away with your weapons, I mean you no harm."

Man, that kills me. I sure hope we see YDM:Source someday.

I'd say Day of Defeat for Half Life. I spent a lot of hours getting worked in this game but even though I stink at it I kept playing trying to get better. Its gotta be good if I keep going back for more even though I wasn't good.

Does anyone know if there are any good uniform and team modifications made for Madden 2005 on PC? I know there is a community for this on the NBA games by EA sports but I haven't seen anything for Madden.

I looked for mods like that for a while bratwurst, but besides the usual roster updates, I haven't seen any mods for 2005. I was suprised, as I am used to all the jersey, equipment, face pack, and rink mods that come out for NHL games. I figured with football being alot more popular, there would be that many more mods.

Being an arz cardinals fan, i was hoping that maybe someone had come out with a new uniform with the updated logo that was unveiled a month or so ago.

Unreal Tournament
Chaos UT -- New weapons, grappling hook, king of the hill maps
Unreal4Ever -- New weapons, Gauntlet mode, Fortress mode
Jailbreak -- Well, um, jailbreak mode
Monster Hunt -- You and your team hunt down monsters, including Queens and Titans. Too bad there are so many sucky maps.

I was about to say Asheron's recall for Diablo 2, then I saw that Tamriel mod. Holy jeeze that looks amazing.