ModDB Mod of the Year Winners Chosen 24
TheRealFritz writes "It's that time of year again and ModDB has released the winners of their annual Mod of the Year contest. Gamers who like to go beyond their initial investment have chosen their favorites for 2006: Point of Existence and Project Reality according to ModDB's Mod of the Year competition. The contest took in over 80,000 votes and narrowed the field from 4,000 mods to the Top 5 released and unreleased mods, as well as a handful of genre awards and the Editor's Choice awards. Perhaps it is ironic that the two top mods of 2006 are both for the Battlefield 2 platform, which has been abandoned by its developer and is notoriously buggy and difficult to mod. Despite these problems, both mods went on to beat out mods from the ever popular Half-Life 2 platform. The much better maintained Source engine is represented with the winners of the third through fifth places: Goldeneye: Source, The Hidden: Source and Minerva."
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Conversely, two big Half-Life based mods, and one Unreal-engined standalone game, appear to have disqualified themselves from actually winning anything this year. Yep, Garry's Mod, Natural Selection and Red Orchestra - all previous winners of the competition, and all gone commercial in one form or another. Good for them - and more importantly, it makes room for young upstarts like me!
Although I did hear that explanation on their games radio show thing they had online - which in a demonstration of its levels of accuracy claimed I was called Adam Smith, and was French. Both incorrect. So who knows. Maybe MINERVA actually is deserving of a fifth place...
(I'd like to thank my agent, my family, blah blah blah blah *sob* blah blah blah *cheer* blah blah blah ad nauseam...)