2002 is over, many games sites are throwing out the same old "games of the year feature"... NOT US! Being a mod site that just would not be our style, however seeing as we don't want to miss out on the action, we are doing a MASSIVE feature on the best mods of 2002!
After two months of accepting nonimations, bribes and attempting to ignore the crazy DBZ fans whose vote generally reads "our mod is teh b0mb - 1337 yeah!" we have choosen the best mods across the following categories *drum roll*:
The following list contains the best released mods of 2002. Unlike the years that followed, in 2002 the best mods were picked by Mod DB editors. Therefore only around 30 made the cut. You can also read our writeup about the top few mods of the year.
+Indie GamesNo indie games were nominated in 2002 because indie game support on the Mod DB was only introduced in 2004 onwards.
+Half-Life
AHL: Directors Cut is a project started by the Ministry of Action. The ministry is a group of people who still enjoy AHL and think that it has a life ahead of it. In our opinion AHL is a wonderful formula for online play, but a few bad design decisions sp Read on...
The Battle Grounds(BG) is a Half-Life Modification based on the Revolutionary War. You and your teammates will have to act together strategically to fight the enemy teams. It will be team based game play. In Bg you can play as a solider in two teams: Read on...
Win a round and upgrade your Bot! Maps, Models and Weapons The Weapon models in this game are kept very simple, much like the rest of the game. Depending on which bot you choose, you will receive an assortment of grenades, lasers, and rocket-type weaponry Read on...
Counter-Strike is a modification (MOD) to the excellent game, Half-Life. It modifies the multiplayer aspects of Half-Life to bring to it a more team-oriented gameplay. Counter-Strike provides the player with an experience that a trained counter-terrorist Read on...
Day of Defeat (a.k.a. DoD) is the latest online action experience from Valve, makers of Half-Life and Counter-Strike. Stationed in the heart of WWII's European Theater of Operations, players join the ranks of an elite military squad entrenched in bat Read on...
Desert Crisis is the most unique mod you'll find. The action is always blazing fast and intense. Weapons range from modern pistols and machine guns to vulcan chainguns, flamethrowers, plasma canons, C4 packs, flare guns, electric sledge hammers, kata Read on...
Digital Paintball is a multiplayer paintball game based on the Half-life engine. It attempts to recreate the experience of playing paintball in both fictional and non-fictional environments – this game puts you in the shoes of a tournament paintball playe Read on...
This is a total conversion from the Japanese Magna DragonBall Z. This mod employs several well know charectors and there trade mark moves/finishers. The mod features a unique combo system, stat point level up system, and much more. ----------------------- Read on...
ESF is a fast paced, 3rd person fighter based on the hit anime, Dragonball Z. Select your favorite character and fly, power up, transform, melee, and beam your enemies into pulp. Each character is given signature moves and abilities to compliment differen Read on...
Firearms is a modification of Valve Software's computer game, Half-Life. It's a realistic modification of the game, that focuses on teamplay with gameplay altered to the extreme. Oh and did I mention this mod is loaded to the hilt with beautifully detaile Read on...
In Front Line Force the players are divided into two teams: Attackers and Defenders. The object for the Attackers is to capture various Capture Points spread throughout the map. The object for the Defenders is to defend those points. Once a point is captu Read on...
GangWars East West Who gets the middle? 1 Boss on East 1 Boss on West Who will win? New Gametypes soon (CTF:Each side has a base (which is a Warehouse full of crack,who ever steals the most crack wins the money which means the other side loses money and s Read on...
Global Warfare is a Half-Life Teamplayer Modification. This MOD pits two teams against each other in modern day warfare. Read on...
Half-Life Rally is a racing modification for the highly acclaimed and everlastingly popular game, Half-Life by Valve Software. Unlike most mods currently being made for the Half-Life Engine, the goal of HL-Rally is not to blast your enemy to smitherines w Read on...
Monkeystrike is the answer to the dozens of realistic, "CS-like" MODs which pop up everywhere. Monkeystrike is a "Fun" MOD. We want to bring the player fun instead of an ultra-realistic damage-system or whatever...As you might have not Read on...
Natural Selection is an action-strategy game for the PC. It is a "Half-life modification", which means it is written on top of the Half-life game engine. "Mods" are a new sort of underground game development that enables small teams to create games using Read on...
It's 13 months after the incidents at Black Mesa. The Black Mesa Research Facility has been shut down. The nation never got to know anything about the experiments there. The less you know, the less you worry. The government founded a new organisation Read on...
Science and Industry is a teamplay mod for Half-Life, in which players assume the role of Security Officer in one of two rival corporations striving for domination in the cutthroat world of chemical and weapons research and development. As security office Read on...
Sven Co-op is a modification that allows co-operative multiplayer (where players fight together against monsters/etc.) in Half-Life. It also adds some features to make co-op play more interesting. New Monsters include: Baby Gargantua, faster and smaller t Read on...
After a very long waiting period, the team behind the creation of the Half-Life mod “The Specialists” is nearing the completion of the latest version of their game, TS 3.0. For those unfamiliar with The Specialists, it’s an action mod created by Filippo " Read on...
Todesangst (pronounced TOH-dess-ahngst) is a German word that literaly means fear of death, but is usually translated as meaning terror or dread. Todesangst introduces the new sinister character Dr. Jack Newell, expert chaos theory mathematician and Direc Read on...
In the original Todesangst we learn about Dr. Jack Newell and his horrifyingly successful endeavors to merge Xen and human life. Freeman and Joe, a courageous member of the Black Mesa security force, hunt down Dr. Newell and eventually succeed in smashing Read on...
Tour of Duty is a realistic team play mod for Halflife by Valve Software. The game is set at the height of the Vietnam war, between 1967 and 1973 allowing you to relive the conflict fighting either for the United States Marine Corp (USMC) or the Viet Cong Read on...
Vampire Slayer is a teamplay mod where two sides battle it out, good versus evil, guns versus strength, Slayers versus Vampires! Do you want guns and stakes? Or would you like to drink blood and leap off buildings at your prey? Do you want to knock them d Read on...
+Max Payne
Kung fu 3.0 is (naturaly) the 3. one in the line of kung-fu mods for max payne. It's included a new training-map (dojo) Features: ---------------- - A kung fu fighting system that includes: - a hand-to-hand fighting mode and a stick fighting mo Read on...
+Quake III Arena
Bid For Power is a total conversion for QuakeIII that plays nothing like the original game. Players take control of Ki-powered superheros and battle it out in a mostly aerial fight. The game is highlighted by the work of a great art team and an original style, and the gameplay is extremely fast paced. Read on...
Navy SEAL/s: Covert Operations is a realism total conversion mod for ID Software's Quake3 engine. NS:CO pits players in realistic combat missions such as: -Retrieve Information in a suitcase and return it to a capture point -Defend Fortified Area Read on...
True Combat is an action packed realism mod where big jumps, fancy strafing and fantasy weapons are no where to be seen. Expect hard fought team-based objective battles where staying alive is only the first challenge you will face. Read on...
About the mod Western Quake³ is intended to be a realistic simulation of the "Old West's" great atmosphere. It is being developed - as you can see in the name - on id Software's Quake³ Arena Engine. This Total Conversion will include c Read on...
+Tribes 2
Shifter - started by Emo1313, finished by TerroX, this mod has been in active development (and still is) since Tribes 2 was released over 2 years ago. 18 vehicles, 18 armor classes, over 50 weapon types, 11 Grenade types, 9 Mine types, 19 packs, 7 Vehi Read on...
+Unreal Tournament
GODZ completely converts Unreal Tournament 2003 into a futuristic action game. Featuring incredible battles amongst genetically engineered, supernatural warriors built by rival planets to compete in a Universal-Wide Tournament. The prize is an untold fort Read on...