total conversion mod
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
total conversion mod (plural total conversion mods)
- (video games) A mod that uses the game engine of an existing video game but significantly alters gameplay, assets, setting, etc. to the extent it is considered an entirely different game (and may be commercially marketed as a standalone title).
- Synonyms: TC, total conversion
- 2006, William Abner, The 2006 Gamer's Tome of Ultimate Wisdom: An Almanac of Pimps, Orcs, and Lightsabers, page 157:
- This is a total conversion mod for Medieval: Total War that uses Napoleonic era troops rather than swords and knights.
- 2010, Satish Nambisan, Mohanbir Sawhney, The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World, page 159:
- The best-known total conversion mod of Half-Life is Counter Strike, which uses the Half Life engine but is a multiplayer-only game.
- 2012, Casper Harteveld, Making Sense of Virtual Risks: A Quasi-Experimental Investigation Into Game-Based Training, page 11:
- In the end, the two created in less than a month a total conversion mod of Unreal Tournament 2004 in which players wander around an authentic Dutch landscape (without any guns of course).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:total conversion mod.
Further reading[edit]
Total conversion mod on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
