In Pictures: 20 Of Our Favorite PC Game Mods

[blackened144]

Im sorry, but, no NudeRaider mod for the original TombRaider? You guys are slacking.

 

[Computer_Lots]

You left out one of the best mods ever.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein : Enemy Territory.
This was a multi-player mod for the new version of the original FPS.
It assigned classes that each had a specific job.
Medic - obviously to heal teammates, but could also heal self.
Lieutenant - distribute ammo and call air strikes.
Soldier - had all of the best weapons like flame throwers and rocket launchers.
Covert Ops - sniper that can spot enemy landmines and units to display on the team minimap.
Engineer - could plant dynamite to blow objectives and landmines to blow the enemy.

It was really, really good.

 

[Poisoner]

Where is stainless steel for medieval 2 total war

 

[belardo]

Sigh... Epic could have used Threewave to design usable maps for the failed game, UT3.

 

[the_krasno]

You can find the "Alien Quake" mod here:

http://www.quaketerminus.com/addon.shtml

Fair use laws allow for non profit mods to exist, Fox!

 

[osxsier]

These are all good mods, but I think they missed one of the best ones I have seen.

Star Wars mod using battlefield 2142. You can play in space in a tie figher or xwing attaching huge star destroyers. You can play as rebel or alliance on the ground. Its pretty cool and everyone here should check it out if you have Battlefield 2142.

http://www.fsmod.com/intro.php

 

[quovatis]

No mention of NS2 development? Come on. NS was in the top three mods for half life, IMHO (CS, DoD, and NS).

 

[ekidhardt]

This is a piss poor summary, sorry.

Tribes: Renegades, best mod ever! People STILL play it.

This list is really poor and limited and virtually all FPS.

re-write this so that it's actually good and accurate!

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[blarg_12]

*yawn* Quake-derivative FPS.

You can tell the age of the writers from all the crappy polygon graphics FPS mods that are recommended.

What about... Doom 2 - the WAD mods available outstrip the above by a large margin. And it's classic.

What about.. Heroes of Might and Magic 3: In the Wake of Gods (WOG).

Fallout 3: FOMM

Warcraft 3: DOTA

 

[snoogins]

Love to see so many Valve games up there!

 

[dark_lord69]

These were my favorite mods:
1. Capture the Flag for Quake 1
2. Team Fortress for Quake 1
3. Counter-Strike for Half-Life 1
4. Rocket Arena for Quake 1
5. Head Hunters for Quake 1 (Not mentioned here but it was tons of fun and didn't get the attention it deserved)
6. Future VS Fantasy for Quake 1 (My friend and I always played co-op as the ninjas)
7. Reaper bot for Quake 1 (Not really a favorite but it was definitely a milestone for single player deathmatch)

 

[lenoxlv]

Gmod all the way!

 

[C00lIT]

I hightly recommend Red Orchestra for those who don't know it and look for a real challenge. Great game, great community... Their games usually have tones of content updates, new guns, maps, vehicle...

 

[hixbot]

Desert Combat and Eve of Destruction for BF1942 were incredible.

I'm also surprised DOTA is not mentioned.

 

[jgiron]

call me lame, but I like the Annihilation Mod for the original Tribes.
I also played a lot of Killer Quake
The original counter strike was fun until it because Hacker Strike, I also didn't like the 1 shot 1 kill with the AWP.

For UT I think it was Chaos Mod that gave you a huge rocket you can ride on and control. The Love Rocket I believe it was called.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Crysis: Mechwarrior Living Legends, RTW: Europa Barbarorum, Zombie Panic Source, Zombie Master Source, Pirates Vikings & Knights Source, NeoTokyo Source, etc

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Crysis: Mechwarrior Living Legends, RTW: Europa Barbarorum,

Source Mods:
Zombie Panic, Zombie Master, Pirates Vikings & Knights, NeoTokyo, Dystopia, Fist Full of Frags, SMOD Series, GMOD, etc

 

[prince_david]

I had some great times in Desert Combat.

 

[jacobdrj]

All these mods and not 1 reference to Bridge Commander?
seriously?

 

[trekker9876]

you also missed the great complete mods for Star Trek Armada 2, of the top 20 mods, there are only 3-4 games, this is very dissapointing.

 

[bigpoppastuke]

No Gloom for quake 2? It was very similiar and came out long before Natural selection!

 

[Sabiancym]

Natural Selection is the best mod I've ever played. NS2 comes out soon!

 

[jj463rd]

My favorite PC gaming mods were for the combat flight simulation European Air War by Microprose.

 

[jerreece]

Desert Combat is without a doubt the best mod listed...

 

[tedsini]

Who was the editor for this list and why did s/he let this go to print with such a narrow selection of games (Quake, anyone?) and genres (anyone at Tom's play RPGs?). The point is that RPGs are probably more heavily modded than any other genre. Bethesda's Elder Scroll series and the Interplay/Bethesda line of Fallout games come to mind as do EA's games, most recently Dragon Age and it's progeny. How about taking a poll? I'll bet it would create considerable buzz and produce a more representative list of mods.