Not everyone's heard of these just because you have. What follows are simply five of the most interesting - not necessarily the best, definitely not all the most recent, but all worth a look to see what someone just like you can do when they raise the motivation to make their own game.īut first, a quick FAQ in case you are an ill-tempered veteran mod-player about to unleash all manner of nasty shouting.Ī. As the premier FPS on PC, and with its developer actively encouraging third-party modifications, Half-Life 2 is the centrepiece of a vast number of fascinating examples. We'll be looking at mods for other games and genres over the coming months, but for now, let's start at the most obvious place. This is where the ace developers of tomorrow are born, throwing as many new ideas as they can at an established template until it becomes completely unrecognisable. True, for every good mod there's ten incredibly tedious, amateurish or over-familiar ones, but modding is one of the foremost forms of independent gaming. Honestly, there's plenty to do in the meantime.
The following isn't for you - it's for folk bored of Half-Life 2, bored of Counter-Strike, and now not sure what to do with themselves while they wait for BioShock and Crysis to show them fun new ways to kill a man. You'd best look away now if you're already pretty familiar with the mod scene.
