Modification
Modification - the art of applying change to the original.
Mod or modification is also a term generally applied to games, especially first person shooters that run on the open source Quake engine (Including Doom and Half-Life). Mod's are made by the general public, and are entire new games upon themselves. They can include new items, weapons, characters, enemies, models, modes, textures, levels, and story lines. They also usually take place in unique locations. Mods can be single-player or multiplayer. A great many do not progress very far and are abandoned without ever having a public release. Some are very limited and just include some gameplay changes or even a differnt loading screen while others are Total conversions and can modify content and gameplay extensively. A few mods are very popular and become games in there own right with the rights getting bought and becoming a 'official' game, as is the case with Counterstrike.
Among popular mods, none is more well known then the Half-Life multiplayer mod, Counter-Strike, which was released shortly after the original game, and host upwards of 1 million games per day on dedicated servers.
Mods in general are required to be open source (Free) if they include any parts from another mod, or the main game.
Popular Mods
Battlefield:1942
Half-Life
Doom
Doom2
Quake
Quake II
Quake III
Quake III - Arena
Other Games
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