Battlefield 1918 mod

Editors Choice

Welcome to the Editor's Choice awards for the 2024 Mod of the Year Awards, where we show recognition to the mods from the past year that we've found to be personally deserving of attention. We've chosen a series of award categories which range from best singleplayer mod, to multiplayer, to most anticipated and to several more unique and theme related categories.

Any mod which manages to expand on one of the greatest single player journeys and puzzle games of the last decade has our attention, and Portal: Revolution manages just that. It's a prequel, with a great story line and set of challenges to overcome, as you would expect from any Portal experience. Jump back into the decaying Aperture facility, and good luck!

It's hard to look past a mod, which brings historically correct equipment and vehicles and atmosphere to life. It brings an entirely new play style to Battlefield 1942 in a new setting reliant on teamwork, artillery, trenches and slow vehicles to survive the 256 player battles. In 2024 the team celebrated the 20th anniversary, so it gives us great pleasure to acknoledge that effort here.

RTX Remix burst onto the scene from NVIDIA as a new way to mod and remaster Direct X 8 and Direct X 9 era games (of which they are many). One of the main premise of the technology is the ability to apply modern lighting and ray tracing to these classic games via mods, if you have a RTX capable GPU. As such the results can be quite breath taking, as evidenced by NFS: Underground 2 Remix which has transformed the look of this 2004 classic racer. We're now partnered with NVIDIA and promoting this new tech and mods like this which emerge from it's usage.

True Stalker is everything and more we've come to expect from total conversions of this timeless game, bringing a new story, reimaged levels, gameplay improvements, revamped visuals, voice over and translations. If you're enjoying S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl like us right now, this is one to check out.

8 years on from 1.0 of this mod first shipping, the team continues to drop massive updates, which make you want to Return to Castle Wolfenstein once again. 5.0 landed in 2024, featuring new weapon animations, throwing knives, interactive hub, checkpoint system, overhauled maps and plenty more QoL improvements. If you played the original game back in 2001 and enjoyed it, this mod will recapture the nostalgia and add too it.

If you are stuck in the nostalgia of early 2000's total conversions like us, and want to relive classic games but with new content over and over, then Arkona has you covered. It brings a brand new storyline to Gothic II - NotR, with 10 hours of gameplay set in a new world, with a new storyline and NPC's to engage with. Hats off to the team for delivering this, 20 years after the title first shipped.

A brilliant singleplayer mod for the original Company of Heroes, which brings tons of historical skins, and enhanced campaigns. The goal is to faithfully recreate historical engagements as best as possible, with correct units, bigger vehicle choice, and lots of little personal touches to make every vehicle and solider feel unique.

What could possibly be better, than a mod which combines two of our favorite things, by bringing Doom II to Quake 1. This mod really tricks the senses, as it has the look, feel and sound of Doom, paired with the all too familar physics, lighting and feel of Quake which we spent far too much time playing all those years ago.

You are likely wondering what is the twist that Zero Hour: Enhanced mod provides, and the answer is simply - it avoids all of the modern effects used by games, like bloom and edgy lighting, to just make something practical and beautiful. We love raw, remade, reworked and overhauled infantry, vehicles, textures, maps and effects, particularly when applied to our favorite games, and this mod captures the essense of all of this perfectly.

Set in feudal Japan in 1568, and with stunning attention to detail, every unit video, battle location, and texture this Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord mod team has to share has us on the edge of our seat. It's ambitious, unique, and while we suspect it may still be a few years off release, we're enjoying the journey and encourage you to follow along with it's updates.

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What mods would you have picked given the chance? Let us know in the comments and get ready for the next announcement in a few days, the most anticipated mods and then the big one soon after that, the Top 10 Mods of 2024!