Welcome to the 8th Annual Mod of the Year Awards - the premiere event that celebrates the best creations within the modding and indie gaming scene. Developers have delivered plenty of great gameplay experiences this year, and now it is our turn as gamers to nominate and recognize the best of 2009.

From now until Feb 20th, we shall be sharing a year in review and showcasing the editors' picks of 2009, culminating in the announcement of this year's best mod and game as voted by you. The top mods and games will win the honors of being placed alongside other projects that have gone on to become commercial successes and cement their place in ModDB's hall of fame. And to the winner goes the spoils; ModDB has teamed up with a whole lineup of sponsors that have provided prizes ranging from software to servers to beanbags. Everything to help budding developers excel at their craft.

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Mod of the Year 2009 Editors Choice - Best Multiplayer Mod

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2009 was the year for multiplayer focused mod players, with many new exciting projects to grace us with the releases it was a good year. To be nominated for an award in Best Multiplayer Mod projects need to have been updated significantly during 2009 and be multiplayer focused. Here are the Editors of ModDB's top selection of 2009.



MechWarrior: Living Legends
is a total conversion modification for Crysis. MWLL is at its very core a mix between a First Person Shooter and a Simulation. This will be achieved through the use of a mixed arms massively multiplayer gaming experience where the player takes part in a battle using a variety of vehicles and weapons.


Renegade X
revolves around a war between the Global Defense Initiative, and the Brotherhood of Nod. Each faction would have their own base of operations consisting of buildings. A team had to work together to destroy the enemy base, while keeping theirs intact. By simply switching engines, our team will have fixed many of C&C Renegade's faults.

Shotgun Sunrise
is a zombie-riffic vehicular Western of brain-swallowing proportions, yeah? And here's how it works. SEVERAL COWBOYS roam in from the outskirts of town in a TRUCK. The truck seats eight. These cowboys have epic dress sense, by the way. These cowboys are called the RESCUERS. They must ACQUIRE THE ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES OF WESTERN POST-APOCALYPTIC LIVING

The Haunted
is a fast paced thirdperson horror-action game with focus on a intense multiplayer experience that is all about making a stand and liberating cursed places from the minions of evil. The game features several multiplayer modes such as coop or demons .vs. humans where enemies are spawned and controlled by players. The outstanding visuals lay a perfect tone for the gameplay.

NeoTokyo°
takes place in and around a fictionalized Tokyo approximately 30 years in the future. Mankind has begun to fuse with technology. Government and corporate corruption have transformed Tokyo into a deadly dystopian nightmare.

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tschery
tschery

They are all AWESOME mods I played them all and love them .... I hope neotokoy wins ^^

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cW#Ravenblood

cool,
I dont think that NeoTokyo can win.
I hope something else win, but unfortunately Age of Chivalry is not in it

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cW#Ravenblood

I think NT is cool, but I think the other one rulZ more than NT

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Snow_m@n
Snow_m@n

Agreed, age of chivalry should at least be in. Editors choice sucks.

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Sorbitar
Sorbitar

I'd have to say neotokyo for this one. In terms of multiplayer, I haven't played anything (non-retail) this good for a while!

However, as much as I love the moty's and follow them every year, I find there should be more emphasis on the players' choice, rather than the editors. It is the players after all that make up the majority of the community.

In any case, looking forward to the result!

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Tallon_hunteR
Tallon_hunteR

there are players choice categories too

these are just the staff favorites

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Knut
Knut

I think and hope neotokyo will make the race..
this mod simply kicks ***!

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justgoaway
justgoaway

I will give support to Renegade X. MechWarrior and NeoTokyo look cool, too.

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BigCheese256
BigCheese256

I agree. They both look cool, but im standing by Renegade X. :)

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Zoobird
Zoobird

(buried)

I don't care who wins just that NeoTokyo looses. Really it shouldn't even be nominated.

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SIGILL
SIGILL

Now that is nonsense, it's a pretty high quality mod, just like the other nominees.

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SteveUK
SteveUK

In terms of visual quality it is. But in terms of gameplay quality it isn't. It seems good graphics is the perfect placebo to cover up shoddy gameplay.

It's an unbalanced POS in both the weapons and the gametype itself, with a randomly spawning flag which is always then biased to a team, rather than just being in the middle of a map.

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SIGILL
SIGILL

I actually was talking about the gameplay.. From my experience it was pretty well balanced. Challenging, yes, but that's what a game should be like in my opinion.

But erm.. yeah, I don't know. Maybe we've played an other version of the game :P

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Kasplatt
Kasplatt

Yeah, I've played it some, and I definitely find it a well made and balanced mod. No class is really overpowered.
I'm suspecting that these have played the game, failed miserably and thus the game is ****, rather than themselves being bad at playing it.

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SteveUK
SteveUK

That's actually a flaw in the game's design. It rewards dominance too much, so if you are doing horribly there's almost no recovery.

Nice to know MechWarriors actually won it though, they deserved it. There aren't enough Crysis TC's out there

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SlyFlySpyGuy
SlyFlySpyGuy

Are you saying you should be rewarded for being a loser?...I think if your winning, you should be able to get better, just like in real life. If you lose in real life, you die...end of story...lol

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MrTambourineMan
MrTambourineMan

Wow, that's so mature!

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qeloqoo
qeloqoo

Fill this in please
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Anyway, hope for victory of Neotokyo. But I'm biased :)
All Your Ghosts Are Belong To Us!

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DuckSauce
DuckSauce

All seem good mods, grats to all the developer teams.

Gonna be interesting to see which one wins this time.

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Xular
Xular

Damn remembers me to buy UT3 for RenegadeX ;)

MechWarrior: LL is really cool too, only if it wouldnt crash every 5 minutes :/

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KorJax
KorJax

Most of the crashes should be fixed since the latest hotfix patches we've released this month.

If you haven't patched since you first tried it on day 1 release try playing the mod again - there's a few crashes here and there but for the majority, many players can now play for much longer periods of time without crashing.

Thanks for all your support guys! :)

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M@ty
M@ty

There's also WAY more content since then too!

We're going UDK over the nest few months, so dont fret if you can't afford UT3 just yet.

We've got a present for ya, ha!

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rellik_pt
rellik_pt

shotgun sunrise was the most funny multiplay this year with the truck.dont let that mod die

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Mkilbride
Mkilbride

Cmon, NeoTokyo!

Surprised Shotgun Sunrise made it...others were obvious though.

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MrTambourineMan
MrTambourineMan

Imo, neotokyo deserves the win, tough competition though...

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Mastix
Mastix

The Haunted is superb, Shotgun Sunrise while fun for a while is pretty low quality (both on gameplay and execution), didn't play Mechwarrior, Renegade-X is pretty fun and Neotokyo is a pretty dull tactical shooter (but high quality content).

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Dnst
Dnst

Neotokyo. They love Neotokyo at Moddb!

I would choose Shotgun Sunrise though, it is innovative.

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pyro37
pyro37

in my opinion neotokyo or the haunted will win.

but hell who cares all these mods are good right ? :)

best of luck to all

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Velox
Velox

NeoTokyo or Renegade X will win but all games are great

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Dan911
Dan911

wootz! go shotgun sunrise!

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vfn4i83
vfn4i83

My bet goes to the NeoTokyo, it really has a great atmosphere, for a change.

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Rukus_
Rukus_

Shotgun Sunrise deserves to win, if they do they will get a flood of applications. Which they need badly.

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PrivRyan
PrivRyan

I hope Neotokyo wins. All these mods are all good though, it's a hard choice.

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BigPapaSmurf
BigPapaSmurf

Never heard of Shotgun Sunrise before this, but the real question is can it compete with Renegade X (My bet)?

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Spycon_Fighter
Spycon_Fighter

ARGH Damn Editors, give us something that we can actually guess correctly, all these mods are good!

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MrMattWebb
MrMattWebb

These ALL deserve to be in the top 5!

Congrats to whichever is the editors favorite.

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BigPapaSmurf
BigPapaSmurf

Did not see that coming...

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tschery
tschery

aaahhahaha ^^^nobody mentiond the winner xDDD

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Kamikazi[Uk]
Kamikazi[Uk]

All Look Great and i havn't even tryed them, I say Renegade X

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Zoobird
Zoobird

I'm happy for the winner. The staff made a good choice.

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wbokunic
wbokunic

As you said, you didn't care who won, so long as it wasn't Neotokyo. So your comment is pretty pointless, you could probably give to flying pigs for the winner. Neotokyo didn't win, so you're happy.

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Zoobird
Zoobird

If I remember you were a play tester for NT, and you always told me how great it was until they removed you. After you changed your tune saying how horrible it is. So really it's pointless you don't agree, or that you even made a post.

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Mars_3K
Mars_3K

Wait- an editor's choice I actually agree with? What's going on here?! XD

I reckon MWLL are a good bet for mod of the year, tbh.

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SIGILL
SIGILL

Epic awesomeness! Congratulations MWLL team! I've been following you from my first day on Crymod, you really deserve it! (Btw, is Criminal still in the team? :/)

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KorJax
KorJax

Crim is still on the team yes :)

Although currently visiting Austraila, so he's not able to pay our website bills ( Mechlivinglegends.net is currently down due to bandwidth quotas for the month) :P

It should be up tomorrow though once feburary starts.

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wbokunic
wbokunic

Switch to 1&1. They offer unlimited monthly bandwidth on any deal available. I use them and have run sites with thousands of hits a day without even a single second of down time.

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Dremth
Dremth

I'm surprised again. I thought for sure Neotokyo was going to win. But I haven't played the MechWarrior mod. I keep forgetting I have Crysis :P

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Versatyle
Versatyle

I was rooting for NT. It's definitely a top notch mod. TBH though, I don't see why it was MW:LL that got it in the end. From the looks of it, the gameplay video looks fairly bland (Granted, so does Neotokyo's) and the weapons in the videos underwhelming. It looks like an updated version of Wulfram. (www.wulfram.com). Congratulations none the less.

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Mkilbride
Mkilbride

Damn.

Oh well NT, you keep getting cheated out of awards. :'(

At least you didn't get beat by Shotgun Sunrise, if that had happened I'd had no more faith at all in Moddb's editors. :P

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Taranov
Taranov

Congratulations to MechWarrior: Living Legends team!

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