It took over 500 indentured servants voluntarily employed programmers to make the maps in Call of Duty. It makes sense, since it’s way easier to mod games that look like they were made with a bunch of stale Play-Doh and pasta sauce. With the recent resurgence of retro-games, I was hoping we’d see an equal resurgence in mods. Surf maps and modded RPG servers? Those were the days.

Then Counter-Strike got its own slew of mods. Games like Counter-Strike originally started as mods, further blurring the line. I played Half-Life 2 mods for over 2,000.

The other 95% will be spent in a wonderful ocean of mods. Retro-Horror Shooter DUSK Turns The Whole Game Into Tim Allen (Among Other Things) With New Mod SupportĪny fan of classic shooters will tell you that the actual game is maybe only 5% of what you’ll be playing.