8 Mods Better Than The Actual Game
These mods ate the original game for breakfast.
The gaming community may be tough to engage with at times, but one of the best things about it is the modding scene, where passionate players create expansive content intended to alter and even improve their very favourite games.
Sometimes mods are just a silly bit of fun intended to give us all a giggle for half an hour, but some mods are so astoundingly deep, rich, and entertaining in their own right that they even end up surpassing the achievements of the base game itself.
Considering the millions of dollars that went into all of these O.G. games, created from the labour of hundreds of developers no less, it's absolutely staggering that a small group of hobbyists were able to deliver mods that in some instances made the original feel obsolete.
These eight mods are just that damn good, each of them building upon what came before and taking it all in a direction just about nobody could've seen coming.
And yet, these mods feel so essential to the experience that playing without them just feels so, so wrong now...
8. Battlefield 1942: Desert Combat
Let's kick this list off with one of the most legendary gaming mods of all time - Battlefield 1942's Desert Combat.
Desert Combat was released in 2003 and set in Iraq during the first Gulf War, allowing it to introduce a bevy of more modern weapons and vehicles that simply wouldn't make sense in the base game.
This includes jets, helicopters, mobile missile launchers, and high-caliber sniper rifles and machine guns to name just a few, ensuring that Desert Combat basically injects the original multiplayer experience with a fat dose of steroids.
With a greater focus on in-air combat, Desert Combat adds a whole extra layer of strategy and mayhem, with a faster pace which means players spend less time jogging back to the action.
Studio Trauma Studios did such a great job with the mod that they were acquired by Battlefield developer DICE and collaborated on the development of Battlefield 2, which similarly featured more modern combat with contemporary vehicles and weaponry.
Some even maintain to this very day that Desert Combat remains the pinnacle of the series - a spirited evolution of the original concept before it got carried away trying to out-do Call of Duty.