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Mod DB's Mod of the Year Awards 2007
With gaming being such an expensive hobby, it's nice to see some high quality mods to enhance our existing games and innovative indie games for our enjoyment. Website Mod DB has announced the winners of it's Mod and Indie game awards for 2007, all chosen through a popular vote.
A bounty of excellent games can be found here, especially if you own Half Life 2 or Battlefield 2. The Half Life 2 mod Insurgency won the award for best released Mod of 2007. The game is a highly refined multiplayer modern combat game set in the Middle East.
Zombie Panic: Source won the prize for best Unreleased Mod of 2007. Zombie Panic has actually been released since the voting started taking place, so be sure to give this unsettlingly eerie zombie/survival horror mod for Half Life 2 a try.
My highly anticipated game, Beyond the Red Line, won first place in the Indie Games category and shows excellent production values usually not seen in an indie game. None of the indie games require other games to play, so be sure to give them a try.
I myself would of course recommend Beyond the Red Line to any Battlestar Galactica fan, but I'd also like to give a shout out to 5th place winner Minerva . This mod is so ridiculously impressive, that employees from Valve actually got involved in its development. Any gamer who loves Half Life 2 owes it to themselves to pay this mod. The game is phenomenally good, you'll swear Valve made the levels for the real game and just forgot to put them in.
It's also nice to try out these indie games and show their developers support. They make these games and mods out of pure passion without any expectations of pay. Mods are also an excellent jumping point into the gaming industry, so I wouldn't be surprised if Valve and EA were looking at these developers too. Counter Strike and Team Fortress both started off as mods (the originals are still popular today) and led to fully produced sequels, so hopefully we will see some great work from these developers in the future.
Minerva should have won.
Posted by PatMan33 at January 30, 2008 11:52 PMThe worst thing about mods is that there's just so many of them. It's such a chore to find a mod you like among the hundreds (or thousands) of mods released for a popular game, especially if you started playing it a bit late.
Posted by Sonny at January 31, 2008 4:30 AMIt seems to be ego shooter only... And they seem to have a preference for military shooters, which I don't like at all. I prefer fantasy or science fiction.
I might try some of these though. Definitely Minerva, because you speak so highly of it, and I'm downloading Beyond the Red Line right now.
I am a little sad, that Warcraft 3 isn't represented. Sure, it doesn't compare with the other games, because the mapsize limit is 4 MB, (good luck shoving custom models or music into that) and there is a lot of stuff that simply isn't changeable in the editor, but the sheer mass of mods available for Warcraft 3 makes up for it. You can find a new funmap on Battle.net every day.
Maybe they should have another category for small projects. That would be where the Warcraft 3 community fits in.
I can't wait for Beyond the Red Line! There's this weird conflict going on in my head: on the one hand I'd love to pay the full version as fast as possible, whereas on the other hand I'm hoping they'll go full out on the scenarios and include almost every single battle we've seen so far.. I wouldn't be surprised if the full version of the game doesn't come out until season 4 has finished, so they can follow the storyline of the show.. Can't wait!
Posted by Jarno Miedema at February 1, 2008 10:45 AMI love Minerva. One of the best mods I've ever played. I'm glad it did so well.
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