Mods of 2006 - Player's Choice
80,000 votes. 4,000 mods. Over the course of 2 months, gamers from across the globe came together to decide which mods rank as the epitome of what our hard working community can do. Now, gallons of blood and sweat later, we tell you what triumphed in 2006
Posted by INtense! on Jan 13th, 2007 Page 3 of 6
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Top Unreleased Mods Editorial
Waiting for things is a royal pain. As some of you who know me can attest, I can't stand to wait for anything. I curse at the red stoplight, I stomp my feet when my downloads aren't instantaneous and I grumble at length waiting for mods to come out. Good things come to those who wait, which must be why I struggle continuously, but some of these mods are proof positive that there are good things on the horizon. It must be said that this year's most anticipated mod listing is, really, quite similar to the one that arrived last year. Whether this is because the hype machine is just working overtime or deadlines are slipping, who can really say. But the point is, these mods are still the things to look for, whether you curse in the process or not.
Honorable Mentions
Unfortunately, not everyone can win Mod of the Year, but some mods can lose especially hard. These aren't those mods, but wouldn't it be funny to write about those? Anyway, honorable mentions are reserved for those few mods which barely missed out on receiving an award through different circumstances, but are definitely worth taking note of. Check them out sometime, you won't regret it. You won't be able to play them, since they are unreleased, but you can sit around and drool with the rest of us and think about all the fun you might have had if they were actually out.
5th Place. Project Revolution
While some of us wait endlessly for the day when Blizzard will finally glance away from World of Warcraft to acknowledge one of the other games that made them a household name, Project Revolution has every intention of keeping the Starcraft fire burning. This is a straight port of a classic game, taking all of the base units from the original title and porting them into Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne for fans to do battle with. And considering that Starcraft was one of the greatest strategy titles of all time, it's no wonder that Project Revolution has some heavy community support behind it.
4th Place. Insurgency
A fan favorite since it was originally announced, Insurgency transports players to the modern battlefield in Iraq, the Balkans and Chechnya. There are certainly a lot of mods out there that focus on intense reaslism, but Insurgency hopes to set itself apart by emulating real world conflicts and placing a heavy emphasis on teamplay. Don't let that throw you, though. Special teams are being designed to cater towards the casual gaming crowd as well as the hardcore realism enthusiast, meaning that anyone can give Insurgency a try.
3rd Place. First Strike
While LucasArts may have trouble creating a fun Star Wars game, the mod community certainly seems able to. First Strike is an upcoming Star Wars mod that allows you to fight the epic battle for the galaxy on a number of different planets. Whether you choose to become a freedom fighter of the Rebel Alliance or a servant of the empire, First Strike promises to provide Star Wars fans with intense, fun, sci-fi combat. Let just hope it is released before the 2007 MOTY awards!
2nd Place. Forgotten Hope 2
A remake of the popular mod for Battlefield 1942, Forgotten Hope 2 is a World War 2 mod that features an arsenal of over 250 pieces of true-life equipment, destructible environments and a focus on cover and concealment to survive. Forgotten Hope 2 looks to take all of the positive aspects of the original mod and update them to take full advantage of the Battlefield 2 engine to create one of the most immersive World War 2 mods you'll ever play!
1st Place. Black Mesa
Was there ever any doubt that Black Mesa would win the unreleased Mod of the Year? If you've been living under a rock for the last couple years, let's recap a bit. Before Half-Life 2 entered our lives, Valve announced that they would remake the original Half-Life in the source engine. Every screamed with joy. The chance to play one of the most influential first person shooters of all time in all of its remastered glory? We were so there.
And then it died. Valve crushed our hopes and dreams, however sad they might have been, by explaining that the remake would be nothing but newly implemented physics and water effects. Forget seeing Xen, the Lambda Complex and the test chamber in high resolution graphics. Valve figured, hey, if the fans wanted it, they could bloody well make it themselves.
Black Mesa is the community response to this. What a response it is, too. Every screenshot released comparing the original Half-Life to the remake illicits screams of approval from the community. Never mind that we've all essentially played this game before, there is something about seeing it like this that just drives people wild. Is it the amazing new soundtrack, the obvious eye for detail, the sheer dedication of the team or the fact that we all just go bat-shit wild for anything with Gordon Freeman in it? Whatever reason you choose to justify it with, there is no denying that this year's top unreleased mod is the same as last year and will probably continue to be until we all jump into Black Mesa for the first time. Again.
It'll be just like coming home.
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Black Mesa rule!!:D
Yay!
* Cin waves to BigBird :D
FTN
holy hell woot so many mod so many awards and the radio has me laughing these guys are nuts also who brought the vodka wooot.
MOTY I LIKE CAKE
Some good winners. =)
Wait until you see the exclusive footage from the unreleased mods. SOME awesome work in there!
Its showing up in 5minutes
wooooo
:)
:D awesome! I don't know how those BF2 mods won though...
I'm confused. Isn't there also a 'best standalone game' category?
INtense - really?
Oh, and congratulations to Black Mesa!
Will there be a scoreboard released? as in total mods and their votes? it'd be interesting to see the numbers. Also i just want to know where my mods fell in, both were in the top 100, but seems they haven't made the final cut (till editors awards tomorrow)
Yeah a 'best standalone' catagory would be good...not too late to implement...*pleads*
Yes, and my sexy... Uh nvm.
Congratulations to the winners and honorable mentions! Thanks to the MODDB staff and writers who worked tirelessly on this!
Standalone was listed on the list of awards, they had better list a best stand alone game.
nice to see some bf mods in there well dont to the moddb staff youhave all done so well :)
bah spelling
nice to see some bf mods in there :)
well done to ALL the moddb staff you have all done so well :)
Hidden: Source looks like it'd be great fun! Wish I had HL2.
How is Red alert 3 best strategy game of the year?
Yo! Been listenin since this started, and a micrphone made my ears cry blood. The crackin noise from one of thier mices anyway :D
So far this is really awsome. This is an awsome community and has shitloads to give to future gamers and such. Moddb rules and all modder,codder,artwork artist and so on, Keep at it! You´re all doing an awsome job! XD
Now im gonna stop drink coffe and get some sleep... ._.
Standalone mods will be listed during EDITORS CHOICE tomorrow. I will consider adding the players choice standalone game here also.
But especially to Point of Existence and Black Mesa!
I <3 PoE2
Grats to all winners, excellent feature in all respects. Great job Scott & crew!
:D
Congratulations to the winners!
I second the suggestion for a full scoreboard release. I'd very much like to see where did our mod end up in the top 100! And people who voted for our mod are interested in that too.
I expected way way more. I'm really disapointed.
What more did you expect?
Thank you very much to the players out there, new old and loyal, that keep rooting for this mod! Dont stop, coz we wont until you have one hell of a game, but without you we would not get as excited about continuing to make this beloved game. Its an honor to place 3rd and we appreciate that award no end!
Thanks to all the other mods that provide hours of fun and unique enjoyment too! Also again to moddb, and you the voters, Thanks! =D
On behalf of all the Team Members at FirstStrike, all the guys who voted for us a huge THANKS!
Its really unexpected to get this accolade, we didnt think we would have a chance with the sheer quality of work being pumped out from all these MODD'S. Having spent nearly a year and a half on this MOD with bare miminal tools we are now starting to make real progress.
Have to mention the team im afraid most of them arent represented here (my bad), BLITZ (the REAL MOD LEADER) who has been fundamental in multitasking many elements of FS has dedicated a huge amount of time, blood, sweat and tears to this has been an inspiration to us all.
MOD LEADER BLITZ
PRESS | RECRUITMENT
xEROhOUR FoxyLady
SOUND TEAM
Ulversial Simon Faculty Si
MAPPING
General-Unco
SKINNING
Ramseus Rybot Pumbaa Elijah JayBiggs The Preacher
MODELLING
Svenstaro Lord Bandu Luuri Ahhsai Suge RedMonkey Havoc Harryballzonya Yoyi EvilJoe
CODING | PROGRAMMING
Golden Dragon Woodrow MUAHAHAHAHA Brolin
LORE | RESEARCH
Dragunov Dutch Razor Talon Piewalker
ANIMATION
Wakkamus Lewis
CONCEPT ART
HairWolf
VO ARTISTS
Filet-o-Fist 0dd Heimgrokk vbl
SPECIAL THANKS
Aquila Tyler Alxcote Sapper Hoofer SCHRifle Nusirilo
And all the Testers
absolute Ace101 ArcAngel227 Brown750 CAAM Demonic Ferengi generalandrew Havokmann Kampher Kiffer L.C Markus
MaxMayhem MK4210 sgt. fuzz Sicarius Tulkas TY2D2 Wolverine
Lastly congratualtions to FH2 and BLACK MESA awesome work guys! Well done.
Thanks to everyone who voted for NS. We're proud to still be considered so highly.
Congratulations to everyone who participated, well done.
I'm really shocked due to the fact that none of the Doom3 mods got into this list. :S
Congratulations to all the winners because they really deserve it for their hard work and big thanks for you all who support us, we'll reward you that in some time :) .
Congratulations to all the winners!
And thanks to all the players that voted for Black Mesa, glad we're still at the top of your lists!
Hey Gents at ModDB - THANKS for running such a great site. The Project Reality team was rather shocked to be in the top 100 never mind runner up for mod of the year!
Congratulations to all mods and modders and a big thanks out to the ModDB crew from the Project Reality team.
eggman
To all the modders who picked up awards, well deserved!! :D
Mint_Sauce (Rock 24 Mod - HL2 SP Mod)
keep up the good work MODDB !!!!
because of you, the mods gain popularity and so the quality of them goes up!
Moddb rules the gaming world of course.
Congrats too all!!!
This is just wonderful! Thanks for choosing BlockStorm as the best puzzle mod of the year... although there was not too much to choose, but anyway, it's something amazing... THANKS! THANKS! THAAAANKS !!!
OMG they picked the worse mod for the winners
WOOO! empires got the genre award!
I suspected that the fan base was a little small at the moment to compete against the likes of dystopia.. but well done to all the winners!
It's nice to organize such a contest !
So good job every single dude coming here & making mods, winners and loosers: in mod making, there's nothing to loose, just big experience to get !
On a side suggestion for Mod DB, I think that it would be great to have a big table resuming how the votes were put in each mod, so that everyone can have an idea of the mod scene.
Regards.
So why is it that the top 100 has no D2 mods, but the RPG award winner is a D2 mod? <confused, feeling a bit stupid>
Can anyone please tell me what mod is shown as the very first one in the video?
Huh, interesting results, but to many freakin' BF2 and Half-Life games. :P
To the Moddb.com & the modding community gaming fans,
It's a great pleasure to check the site this morning and see that our team had become the #1 MOTY - it's definitely a great honor for the team to achieve this award and we appreciate the support from everyone. It's all about having fun - from making our games for people - and the end result -- gamers enjoying what was developed.
Moddb.com is a great site as it provides updates on all games and all mods - thank you once again!
Tom "Hathcock" Patterson
Pointofexistence.com
#pointofexistencemod on the Gamesurge IRC network