Modification of existing works has always been a popular occupation: the ancient Greek Herostrat or Andy Warhol, who took a photograph of Marilyn Monroe of acid color correction – all of them created copyright modifications. Modern mod movements have long pushed out of the nest and lives its own, stormy and rich, life. The original game is only the starting point of a large and complex project. Non -profit mods regularly grow from amateur status and become full -fledged participants in market relations.
The editors of the Moddb portal have been following these processes for several years.COM (provide a server shelter with a huge number of game modifications – from unpretentious to completely grandiose). Moddb calls the top ten best mods annually. We studied a hundred finalists and compiled our own top 10. This is more and more grateful from year: recently fashion, no worse than flagship indie projects, have become a landfill to test new ideas. In a word, fashion is now in fashion.
P.S. All the mods described in this material can be downloaded on the Moddb website, driving their name into the search line.
FIFA Manager 09: Total Reality Mod
Genre: Football simulator
Original game: FIFA Manager 09
Developer: Crazy_mactep
Do you like football as its creators love Total Reality For FIFA Manager 09? Whoever read these lines, the correct answer is "no". Indeed, in order to decorate the innovations of FIFA Manager, football needs to be saturated through and through. It is worth awarding with prolonged applause people with nicknames Crazy_mactep, REX_1984, MOXOB, FOOTFAN and ADT. And having learned that they are all Russians, to add cries “Well done!".
Total Reality in the current beta version-a mod-actor: 530 real championships (instead of the original 150), 8940 real clubs (the original is half as much), more than 116 thousand real players (in reproach “Pretty” 30 thousand in commercial boxing). As well as scans of real forms and club logos. Photos of football players, judges, trainers and a model of truly existing stadiums. Modification turns the game into a virtual mirror of football Europe, Asia, South and North America of the 2008/2009 season.
According to the authors, the mod reveals the potential of the manager by 300%. And this is pure true. Scripts are seriously corrected, and now you can look at the course of the match "from the eyes of the coach". But most importantly, the efforts of the fans Manager 09 change its multimedia genome – at the site of the game there is a football encyclopedia with the volume of data, in places exceeding the knowledge of "Wikipedia".
On the horizon – TotalrealityMod for FIFA Manager 10. The creators say: the output of the next version depends on you! Each non -indifferent to the fate of the project can be sent a special base for editing. By the way, it is possible to make information about the personal life of football players: wives, mistresses, children, cars, favorite varieties of beer.
Median XL
Genre: RPG
Original game: Diablo 2
Developer: Brotherlaz
Median XL – The best proof of the fact that the great interactive work can be reanimated many times. This is a huge mod that is seriously expanding the role system .. Diablo 2. Median XL is the triumphant degeneration of the legendary “Diablo” almost 10 years after the release of the original. In the first 30 seconds of the game, you will not feel the difference: all the same seven daring to choose from (from addon Lord of Destruption ), welcoming "good day!»From the guard in the tramp camp. Well, then the eyes will begin to scatter, and from the influx of sedimentary monsters it will become hot, as in the Treams of Karakalla.
The old sprawling tree of development is cut down under the root. Instead of him now – strict columns of skills: six per class, five skills in each column. The specialization of the characters are somewhat shuffled. So, the sorceress took several useful lessons from the necromancer and learned to call ice elements, and the paladin found the ability to throw fireballs.
The logic of battles is rethought from scratch – in a familiar, it would seem, the game has to learn to play again. In any case, closer to the den of Baal. New enemies will not allow you to get bored in the outdoor and across the vicinity of Lut-Golein and Kurast. As for you, for example, a poisonous frog, which after death turns into an equally dangerous prince? Finally, the holiday came to the Street of Blacks' Interpreters: the total number of rune words now exceeds three hundred.
According to Moddb Median XL, the best modes of the last mods of last year, according to the wake of general nostalgia and fashion for retro. This is really high -quality, voluminous modification of manual discharge. And most importantly – the best way to pass the long months of waiting for the official Diablo 3.
Neotokyo
Genre: Shooter
Original game: Half-Life 2
Developer: Radi-8
In the future, after 30 years, Tokyo will become a place of interweaving of high technologies, corruption, corporate and government interests. The attempt of the Japanese army to commit a coup. The government creates a combat organization for its own protection, which comes into confrontation with the army group, striving to install a hunta in the country. In this turbulent world, the action takes place Neotokyo (works on the engine Source ) where we are offered to join either the team of conspirators, or to the defenders of the Japanese constitution.
Neotokyo is a real long -term construction, which gained fame long before the adoption of the final version. The year before last users Moddb.COM called Neotokyo the second most anticipated mod of 2008. Expectations were fully justified: in the contest Mod of the Year 2009, the modification took an honorable third place in the top ten, and also claimed awards in the Best Art Direction and Best Multiplayer nominations.
The recognition is quite deserved: we have not seen such a strong and atmospheric Source model yet. There are everything – original levels combining new technologies and traditional Japanese architecture, detailed models of players, many types of weapons, a system of choosing classes and character development. This is not just a beautiful futuristic layout, but a successful attempt to simulate a living city in the future is a task that is prepared Half-Life 2 I realized very cardboard. The network game, for which the mod was created, is well balanced, and finding opponents for the online battalion is not difficult.
Neotokyo team is approaching business with enviable thoroughness. An excellent soundtrack is written for fashion, which for non -profit projects is a rarity. There is also its own version of the server and even its own tools for creating levels.
Star Wars: Galactic Warfare
Genre: Shooter
Original game: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Developer: SWM-Team
The main blockbuster of last year dresses up in the textures of Star Wars. Almost all of the game fondly to modify the game sooner or later are arranged on the “Star Wars” motive, and for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 It was inevitable. In this case, only the speed of the appearance of the modification is surprising – only six weeks after the release of the original.
The authors were in a hurry to keep up with the Catholic Christmas, so at the moment there is only one network card in the fashion asset – the Middle Eastern slums are skillfully turned into tatuin. Yes, so that you can't distinguish. Mod, of course, is in the embryo status Beta 0.4 and is included in our ten in some advance – Call of Duty is still 80%, and Star Wars – 20%.
Which, however, does not mean at all that it is boring to play it. The modification is ready to start on four selected servers. They will give me one to fight either for the classic white soldier of the empire, or for the rebel fighter. Taking into account that the differences between the classes are more an aesthetic character, the mod can be classified as an e -sports. It turns out a kind Counter-STRIKE with laser rifles, so that the battlefield instantly turns into a show of Jean-Michel Zharra.
A raw, in general, the product is not only for young Padavans, but also people who are far from George-Lukasov’s fairy tale: Galactic Warfare easily entered the top ten user rating of Moddb for 2009. Only lovers of artistic carving with light swords on the opponent are temporarily upset – they, like respected Jedi, have not yet been brought into the modification.
Third Age – Total War
Genre: Strategy
Original game: Medieval 2: Total War
Developer: TW_KING_KONG
Third Age – Total War , as the name implements, conceived as a complete conversion Medieval 2: Total War The game in the world "Lord of the Rings". According to the results of voting on Moddb, this mod was the fifth in the ranking of the most anticipated mods of 2008, and recently found himself in the top ten in 2009. Third Age is one of the very few modifications for tactical strategies that are popular and recognition among professional players. In addition, this is the only mod for Total War, which appeared in the Moddb charts in recent years.
There were no such large-scale battles in fantasy-world as in Third Age-Total War, not only in other modifications-even in full-fledged commercial projects. Squads from Thebattle for Middle-Earth – Rural squads compared to many thousands of armies Third Age. At the same time, soldiers are not at all like square blanks, as is often the case in other mods. Each of the 12 fractions for which you can fight is unique: among them not only the usual Gondor, Rohan, Mordor, orcs, gnomes and elves, but also the army of rune, harada and Eriador.
For all aspects of the conflict, their own models and animations for the kind of troops were created. Moreover, for each of the fractions, its own music has been written and individual voice portraits are selected (!).
The game takes place on the extensive map of the Middle -earth, on which there are more than a hundred settlements. The main part of them is taken from Tolkien’s books, the rest were invented by the developers themselves. And for complete immersion in the world, not only gameplay was subjected to processing, but also the menu along with the graphic Total War interface. Third Age, without a doubt, has become not only one of the most successful strategic mods of last year, but also the best fan composition on the topic of Frodo and Gandalph lately.
Out of Hell
Genre: Horror
Original game: Unreal Tournament 2004
Developer: Chicken+Ribs_combo
Out of Hell – The colorful horror game marked by the Moddb editorial. A small town in the light of the full moon, the revived dead, two simple guys dream of breaking out of this nightmare. The author of Out of Hell takes his own due to directing and manic attention to the details. The game is ready to argue for the palm of the championship in the amount of scattered garbage, meat strokes and blood splashes per unit of screen area. But the mod did not fall into our list for a deliberate desire to show off by the exterior. Just the opposite, we note the very subtle work of the author at the internal, psychological level of the narrative.
Out of HELL works on a nostalgic wave, puts on a sappress (and not on meat), on classic shuffling slow zombies named after George Romero. In an interview, the mod maker reveals the secret of the postgraduate: the film "Land of the Dead" was a specific source of inspiration for him.
The modification brilliantly occupies a niche liberated by "accelerated" brainwalks Left 4 Dead. However, it is not https://sister-site.org/magic-reels-casino/ contraindicated to shoot Voroshilovsky here-zombies are trained to go to the rear and constantly respond. Out of Hell is a very difficult game, this is her personal greetings to the nineties. With the prospect of losing a million or two nerve cells, you are advanced into the dusk, squeezing in your hands a saving double-barreled man, a tesak or … a chocolate bar (a hero periodically needs to support the wasted forces). Ahead – more than ten huge locations, the forest of the dead and the most natural demons.
Cube Experimental
Genre: FIRST PERSON PUZZLE
Original game: Fallout 3
Developer: Sureai Team
Connoisseurs of cinema will read the idea by screenshots. Cube Experimental – This is an interactive version of the famous film "Cub" Italian Vincenzo Natalie. The winner in the Best SinglePlayer Mod nomination, Cube Experimental works on the engine Fallout 3 and lies in the starting quest in PIP-Boy: you can go in search of a mysterious cubic complex immediately upon leaving the shelter. Understand that the cube will enter into a brutal battle with your brain, the inscription on the wooden wall in front of the entrance: “The cube is fuck you!"Not scared? Get angry? Then forward.
Structurally Cube Experimental falls out of the Fallout 3 universe: neither dialogues with mutants, nor giant cockroaches, nor an analogue of BFG at the ready. Only the labyrinth of rooms connected by hatches, capable of, among other things, to surprise with an unexpected change in gravity and the most delusional hallucinations. The creators of the fashion, the Germans from the Sureai team, clearly enjoy the role of psychoanalysts-practitioners-from endless fermentation between the typical compartments, the head really begins to spin. However, in the virtual cube, unlike the broad-screen, there is still a kind of linear structure: the puzzle nodes are connected by trips on the elevator.
In the final of the story, in the best traditions of Portal, the player will allow you to look behind the scenes of the experimental landfill: pipes, partitions, notes and pipes again. Consciousness hits the hush, and I want only one thing: evacuation. And you will not believe it – it happens. The most unusual variation on the Fallout 3 topic is completed, but do not rush to unload the addition. As if in the order of compensation for a few hours of the moratorium on shooting, the authors dump the whole arsenal of high -precision trunks on the player. Now you can shoot.
Mechwarrior: Living Legends
Genre: Simulator
Original game: Crysis
Developer: Wandering Samurai Studios
The triumph in the nomination Best Multiplayer Mod, Mechwarrior: Living Legends – Another example of conscious creative nostalgia. It is impossible to deceive: before us Mechwarrior sample of 89-99 (until the third part release), gleaming anisotropic filtration and shimmering with special effects of the engine Crysis.
The external similarities, however, are followed by the time dictated by time. The bet in the game is made, as it is already clear, on multiplayer (up to 32 people). You can not only control giant walking robots, but, for example, capture tanks, defensive installations or even rely on virtual arms and legs (nanocostomes in the modification of mod, however, is not included). The fur, as before, is a very capricious machine: it can overheat, break, plant a battery. The first fight with the opponent’s robot disperses all doubts about the arcadeity of the modification: the thinking people win here, and only then – well -aimed.
From the branded sandbox Crysis to Living Legends poured exactly so much sand to play it was interesting. Nobody limits freedom of movement, as before, but they will not let you “swim for buoys”. We strongly recommend: having played in the light of day, experience your tactical genius in battles after sunset. The night vision device requires additional energy consumption – the game seriously reduces in the rhythm, but proportionally adds in tension.
The mythology of the conflict is tied to the confrontation from time to time by the warring BatTletech-fraction: The Clans and The Inner Sphere. About the same – the project of the official reboot of the Mechwarrior series, planned for the exit this year. It is very interesting to know which of the furs will be a gameplay stronger.
Nameless mod
Genre: Shooter
Original game: Deus Ex
Developer: Off Topic Productions
And here is a real exotic. A mod based on a classic deus ex that paints everyday life of an ordinary Internet forum: moderators, admins, spamers and other well-known characters exchange in portions of lead and laser rays. IN Nameless mod Ideas Darwinia Live and evolve. Colds from Off Topic Production pump up humor Deus Ex – Perhaps the most serious game in the history of Action/RPG.
After the mysterious disappearance of the main moderator, the peaceful Forum City is immersed in the abyss of chaos. The protagonist, Trekston, always ready to enter into a dialogue (200,000 composed words) or combine a ban-gun, enters into an unequal battle with the forces of flood. On the way, the former specialist will meet a whole gallery of types written by coal and bile-annoying forum chatter-skewers.
And even if Deus Ex cannot be issued a modern picture on the screen, the "nameless" holds without releasing. The result of the seven -year work of the fashionable builders is fixed with laughter, like a grenade – shrapnel. But besides jokes, the game has a very exciting, nonlinear plot. There is everything: corrupt structures, religious fanatics, cyber terrorists and even “dead computer programs”.
In dry numbers, the game breaks up at 59 levels (including three secret locations), 20 new types of weapons, countless textual information (emails, books, newspapers), familiar spy gadgets, the ability to fight with bare hands and their own soundtrack. There is practically nothing left of the cautious, insinuating gameplay process: a one-time shootout with the participation of twenty or more citizens in Namelessmod-a common thing.
DISCOVERY FREELANCER
Genre: Space Simulator
Original game: Frelancer
Developer: Igiss
When a space simulator entered orbit in 2003 Frelancer , He was often reproached for the weak realization of the pledged potential. And in fact – at the end of the single campaign of the unexplored, there were only a couple of corners of the "endless" universe. The game was not enough scale. Modders immediately took up the correction of the situation. In terms of the number of players on Internet servers, mods are the leader DISCOVERY FREELANCER , The latest version of which appeared in the summer of last year and which was part of the TOP-100 three times according to MODDB editors.Com. And in 2007, he won in the nomination “The Best Mod for the Simulator” (later this award was not awarded).
The purpose of the modification is to expand the plot boundaries of Frelancer repeatedly. The action takes place about two decades after the events of the original campaign, and the world of the game has not become more calm during this time – war, alliances and conspiracies pursue humanity cut off from the Earth.
A little statistics: Discovery has three times more stellar systems, two hundred new ships appeared, many types of weapons and goods appeared. But the recognition of Discovery deserved more than the quantity, but for the quality of the innovations – all of them are neatly inscribed in the structure of the canonical game. The atmosphere of the original source thickened without changing the chemical composition. Everyone who has at least once played in the original Frelancer falls into a familiar galaxy living according to its own laws.
According to the stories of the creators, Discovery appeared as a small modification for playing a local network, but in subsequent years he was repeatedly improved, updated and lined with a crowd of fans. Now a whole team of several dozen people is working on the development, including our compatriots. On the basis of Discovery, several largest Russian Frealace servers work.