Twenty years ago, the PC game ALIENS vs PREDATOR 2 was released. To “commemorate the occasion, here’s five great AvP 2 mods!” as recommended by ModDB. Back in the day, I was an enthusiastic modder in the AvP2 community and it pleases me greatly to see my work being represented twice in this list of five celebrated AvP2 mods.

AP2 is still a great game with a dedicated community still supporting it. The longevity of the title has largely been due to the well crafted intertwining narrative of three entirely different species. Alien, Predators and Humans all playable in a single player story and also represented with up to nineteen different classes in multiplayer. In addition to that, there were literally hundreds of mods players made due to the publisher, Sierra, releasing Monolith’s DEdit and toolset for us to tinker with. As such, the game is still being played twenty years later.

It’s unfortunate that we haven’t seen a moddable ALIEN themed title like this be released in two decades. Whoever embarks on the next game to embrace these iconic movie monsters, please add moddability and release a full software development kit (SDK) and mod tools. Make your game live forever. AvP2 has served the creative fans in our community like no other title has since. We want to see that happen again.

-Windebieste.