These days mods are to games what butter is to bread. With that year we saw many game companies holding more mod expose to teach or share (the tools) on how to mod. We saw more schools offering scholarships to game design this year. Many game designers played one mod before they put all the imagination they had into moving onto games.
Mods they are fun, original and extend the lifespan of a game to be virtually never-ending. With making mods you the creator have the entire world in front of you to decide what to make. Some mods have been stopped for not getting permission and the mods below are proof of doing it the correct way.
The idea of this article is to show the world and you noobs who live under a rock that sexy mods exist and no they are not Counter Strike. The first group of mods I will explain are mods released this year in 2003. If I didn't list a mod that was out in 2003 I am sorry. We set up a forum thread and so many people posted mods. Many of them were not mods that released in 2003. Some mods are not out yet. The rest of this is mods everyone voted on to say they loved them or thought highly of them.
The following list contains the best released mods of 2003. Unlike the years that followed, in 2003 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 2003 because indie game support on the Mod DB was only introduced in 2004 onwards.
+BattleField 1942
Conflict in Somalia, the Battlefield 1942 modification, takes you back in time to the events, tragedies, and bravery faced by soldiers in Somalia. Now, you and your friends can relive the event in a massive online battle that pits the American forces agai Read on...
+C&C: Generals
Blitzkrieg II is a World War 2 total conversion for Command and Conquer: Generals. You can fight as the Allies(with America, UK and France as subsides), Axis(with Tank, Rocket and Jet research tree's) or the Soviets(with Tank and Homeland Defence sub Read on...
+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...
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...
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...
Global Warfare is a Half-Life Teamplayer Modification. This MOD pits two teams against each other in modern day warfare. Read on...
Welcome to the crazy world of Hammy-Bob Mod (Half-Life Modification). If your new to the mod of HBM then get ready for a mod that is a little different from its peers. While most of the modding community is working towards achieving realism the HBM team i Read on...
Currently inactive, but kept for archive purposes! Household DEATH!(c) is a semi-comical, b-movie horrorish deathmatch mod. All of the featured weapons are items that you can find in your own home, or your neighbors, some with slight deadlier modificatio Read on...
IOS is a first and third person online multiplayer soccer game that aims to be the online equivalent of great console soccer games but with a true multiplayer teamplay experience. IOS requires Half-Life. You can join a public game of IOS at any time durin 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...
PVK kicks ass. Additionally, PVK is a modification to Valve Software's Half-Life, featuring three-way action between very unique teams, each from wide-ranging historical time periods, and composed of very unique classes. Here in the PVK universe, fun is e Read on...
Point of View (POV) is a new single player Half-Life MOD where you will play as a Alien Slave named Xonxt. You will have new weapons to use, be able to explore new and old areas of Back Mesa and of Xen in a MOD with a story that will allow you to (re)v 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...
Rats-Mod is a Half-Life Modification. Everybody is a rat and you have to kill each other. At the moment there is only a Team Deatmatch Gameplaymodus, but there will be more soon. With the release of the next version the whole Profile will be updatet: N Read on...
A Coop Based team mod based around the story of Beercan the Jamaican beer can! The mod sees you completing objectives and slaughter all the monsters in sight with your team of... Red - Beercan's drug dealer who was conned by the Evil Mastermind an 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...
Darkness... My body hurts! Or is it my brain? The explosion! I remember it now. Maybe I'm in a coma? Or even worst, I may be already dead... Everything is so confusing... Zombies, monsters and ghosts from the past are filling my mind... Oh God, so m 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...
+Operation Flashpoint
Though they may seem stagnant as you put them away, Legamen are far from it. In fact, as you read this, there are Legamen all over the world living similar lives as we do. These Legamen face many of the same conflicts that we humans do – their lives are a Read on...
+Quake
You can go to the Inside3d Forums with any questions, comments, or suggestions. This mod mainly uses CheapHack for an engine. Telejano might work too. --- -- - Galactix is an arcade-type overhead space shooter. Think of Raiden. You fly around picking up p Read on...
Prepare to play quake as you've never played it before. The monsters have never looked and sounded so scary. If you thought quake 1 was creepy before get ready to pee your pants but this time from laughter! Read on...
+Soldier of Fortune II
ICS is`the` must have `Balls-To-The-Walls` mod for Soldier Of Fortune II with all new commercial quality content, improvements, and even bug fixes Read on...
+Unreal Tournament
Description: The Apocalypse Weapons modification has a main objective: Turn your Unreal Tournament into a real Deathmatch. You'll now have powerfull and balanced weapons to use. New pickups were made to suit the mass deathmatch. Neat features wi Read on...
What is Infiltration? UPDATE! The Infiltration 2.9 Bonus Pack has been released. Download it now! Infiltration is an immersion into realism, driven by intense military combat, in a squad-based, mission-oriented shooter. Each of those missions brings the d Read on...
It’s the distant future and mankind has expanded beyond its solar system. After spending several centuries traveling, expanding and populating, humans perfected the use of wormhole technology. But wormhole technology comes with a price: it consumes a natu Read on...
+Unreal Tournament 2003
UnrealSpeed is a Racing MOD for UT2K3. Many cool features like Analoge driving, karma weapons, adjustable chase cam, gears, surface slipping and many more. Have fun and go and see what UT2K3 can do with vehicles. Read on...
+Unreal Tournament 2004
Frag.Ops is a semi-realistic action FPS based off of the Unreal Tournament 2004 engine. Gameplay features fast paced, round based action that will satisfy your need to Frag! Main features of Frag.Ops include customizeable weapons like Tac Lights, Silenc Read on...
Lawdogs (formerly known as U.S. Marshals) began after a former Unreal Badlands member, Gusher, decided to continue to pursue his idea to create a Wild Western modification for Unreal Tournament 2003 after the Badlands team decided to move on to another ga Read on...
Red Orchestra is the award winning state of the art total conversion that pits players in scale combat of the most intense and grueling warfare in history; the Eastern Front conflict of World War II. Real missions set in real scale settings -- from elite Read on...
SAS is a mod for the UT2004 engine. It will attempt to simulate actions by the various SAS units around the world such as the U.K. SAS, Australian SASR and New Zealand NZSAS during various conflicts they have participated in the past, present and possibly Read on...
Troopers: Dawn of Destiny is a Total Conversion for Unreal Tournament 2004 that crosses the boundary line between Game and Experience to bring you an atmospheric, involving, multiplayer-based tactical first-person shooter set in the fictional universe tha Read on...