Nikilidstrom

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

Scorpion23

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 :-)

Nikilidstrom

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.

hulk

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.

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Coppertop

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

tecoyah

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

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Nikilidstrom

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

Eight

Quake 2 - Rocket Arena

BF 1942 - Desert Combat

ChasingAmy

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.

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Halx

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.

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ChasingAmy

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.

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FngKestrel

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.

Coppertop

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.

Bratwurst

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.

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Nikilidstrom

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.

Bratwurst

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.

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Slavakion

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.

Locke

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

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