Martin's esteemed books-now-HBO megaseries reimagined in videogames is also pretty special. Total War's collaboration with Games Workshop in Total War: Warhammer is the most obvious example of this, yet George R.R. Historical strategy games were built for reinterpreting fantasy fiction. Game(s): Crusader Kings 2 and Mount and Blade: Warband Update 1.4 released in September bringing with it some sweeping changes. If cooperative play is your thing, Call of Chernobyl also boasts a companion system and a PDA stats system and leaderboard to boot. First launched last year, but significantly updated in September, Call of Chernobyl bills itself as a "free-play sandbox mod" for Call of Pripyat that features 32 maps, reworked level design, improved AI and customisable weather.Ī new level, Trucks Cemetery, compliments a new character creation suite - "including name, portrait and faction selection" - alongside a new achievement, ranking and reputation system. Not only are GSC Game World's alternative reality post-nuclear disaster 'em ups great first-person shooters, they're also fantastic survival games and even better horror ones. series is a strange one in that it's hard to categorise. If you're familiar with SureAI's previous mods - particularly Oblivion total conversion Nehrim: At Fate's End - you'll have an idea of what to expect here, but know that Enderal surpases this already high standard in every way imaginable. The latter's recent remaster allowed for a strange return to a land we'd covered from pole to pole on numerous occasions, yet Enderal is in essence an entirely new game in and of itself with a world map similar in size to that of the familiar fantastical province. Its campaign lasts upwards of 30 hours and, coupled with its side ventures, gives Skyrim a serious run for its money on the mileage front. Crafted by Munich-based hobbyist modding team SureAI over a five year period, Enderal: The Shards of Order is a total conversion mod for The Elder Scroll's fifth main series outing which overhauls its source material's systems, maps, quests and characters. Enderal: The Shards of OrderĮnderal is a masterpiece. The current build is an early release too - with creator Sergeant_Mark_IV planning to add familiar faces Revenant, Chaingunguy and Mastermind down the line. There's still an abundance of blood, guts, gore, and hideous monsters but also tweaks to the original game's 32 levels, plus new effects, sounds and animations. Whatever giddy image of Doom their imaginations vomit up, Brutal Doom actually is: a frenzy of ultraviolence with gibs by the bucketload."Ī total conversion mod for the esteemed GZDoom, and a spiritual continuation of the lesser-known Doom 64 mod, Brutal Doom 64 sidesteps the original Brutal Doom's ultra-violent vision and is focused more on portraying a serious and disturbing, survival-oriented horror outing. "Borrow a seven-year-old child, fill them with sweeties and juice, make them spin in circles for five minutes, give ’em a nip of whisky, and have them play Doom for fifteen minutes then describe it to you. To kick things off, I'm actually going to pass you over to Alice who describes the premise of Brutal Doom better than I ever could: You've probably heard of Brutal Doom already - the 2012 mod which took id's '93 FPS and added an overwhelming amount of violence to an already pretty violent game. A number of the mods featured here are also currently competing for ModDB's Mod of the Year 2016 - the top 100 shortlist can be viewed this-a-way. NB - Installation instructions for each mod can be found via its respective page. ![]() ![]() Naturally I've almost certainly missed your personal favourite, so please feel free to shout your own mods of choice at me in the comments at the foot of this article. While our previous Best Mods lists have tended to focus on specific games, this 'un looks at the specific mods themselves - often considering those which provide extra mileage for some of our favourite games. In no particular order, the following collection gathers the best modifications that have either been launched or have been significantly updated in 2016. Well, it's at least been a pretty great year for videogames, and a pretty great year for game modifications.Īs you've probably spied elsewhere on the coveted pages of RPS of late, we're list-entry deep in Best Of season which means I'm now here to present you with this year's best PC mods. If you look beyond the celebrity death epidemic, killer clowns, political turmoil and the fact the Great British Bake Off parted ways with the BBC, 2016 has actually been a pretty great year.
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