Mods and Gaming

Everyone loves a good mod to add to a game that they love, just to make it even better, right? Well, today, after a long time without an update, I am going to post a little something about a few games that have mods or are mods of a very special game.

For starters, I am going to speak of a game that has the word "Mod" in it's name: ModNation Racers. Being Sony's second user created content paradise, it's also a very fun kart racer. I'm not going to do a full on review or anything(at least not at the moment, though you may see some reviews go up here very shorty), but I want to just talk of it very shortly.

Sony's first attempt at a user created paradise was LittleBigPlanet, a game that I haven't yet played. However, since picking up ModNation Racers, I'll be sure to pick it up eventually. ModNation Racers is a blast, letting you customize and create characters, karts, and even tracks, all of which can be put online for others to play, download, and see at any time over the Playstation Network. This pretty much ensures that you have infinite playability, which is an amazing thing. I have only seen the PSP version of this game, but it has a lot of creation options in it. I can only imagine that the PS3 version has even more to offer.

Now it's time to speak of one of my favorite games in ever: Super Smash Bros Brawl. If any of you follow my backlog, you would have noticed that I have a Wii now. With that Wii, I have three very great games; Super Smash Bros Brawl, No More Heroes, and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. Not getting off topic, I am going to just say that Brawl is a blast to play. In fact, it is the most played game at my college, where people are always waiting to play Brawl and show who is the king. However, Brawl by itself can get old, so there are some awesome people out there that have created Brawl mods/hacks.

The one I want to speak of now is Brawl Minus. Brawl Minus is a throwback to Melee, using some of the physics we loved in that game, but mainly sticking to Brawl physics, allowing players to go back and forth between the hack and the original without much trouble. The real improvement is the moves of the characters. All of the characters are much more broken in this mod(Examples: MetaKnight has no freefall, Bowser doesn't flinch, Peach can float twice, etc) and they fixed some stupid things that no one really wanted (ex: No one trips).

I don't have the mod on my own Wii, but I did play it quite a lot at my college last semester. I won't hack my own Wii until the Warranty is out, which will be in about another 6 months.

Anyway, mods may not be the most legal thing ever, but they sure are fun, and they shouldn't have much problem if you bought the game and system and want more replayability from it. Now, if you illegally download the whole game, that's a different story (and a whole other post).

That's all for now.