First post, by MrFlibble
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- Oldbie
For some time I used to think that total conversions of video games that eventually became separate, stand-alone titles are few and far between, as I knew only of a couple examples, like NAM and Gunman Chronicles. Eventually though I started to discover more and more of such games, and decided to make a list of them.
Probably not very surprisingly, what I managed to find so far are mostly FPS games based on popular engines (id Tech, GoldSrc, and the more recent UDK), with but a few titles from other genres. No idea if this is because of the general level of popularity of the FPS genre or some other factors have played a role as well.
The criteria for picking games were as follows: 1) initially there has been a requirement that another title, of which the game in question is a TC or mod, needed to be present in order to run the game, and 2) eventually said requirement was dropped, making the game in question stand-alone. In some cases below, however, a fully stand-alone game was preceded by a mod/TC with a similar theme or storyline.
Command & Conquer: Renegade
- Red Alert: A Path Beyond (originally Renegade Alert)
- Tiberian Sun Reborn (originally C&C Reborn)
Crysis Wars
Doom
- Action Doom 2: Urban Brawl (a prequel to the Action Doom TC)
Doom II
- HacX [requires an engine port]
Doom III
Duke Nukem 3D
- NAM (created after the Platoon TC)
- Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza (went over to GoldSrc and then to LithTech)
FreeSpace 2
Half-Life
- Counter-Strike
- Cry of Fear
- Day of Defeat
- Gunman Chronicles (initially a Quake TC that first moved over to Quake II and then to GoldSrc)
- Sven Co-op
- Team Fortress Classic (based on the Team Fortress TC for Quake)
Half-Life 2
- Black Mesa (started as two separate mod projects)
- Garry's Mod
- No More Room in Hell
- Nuclear Dawn
- The Stanley Parable
- Synergy
- Underhell
Mount & Blade
- Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword (originally a commercial TC/add-on Mount & Blade. Ogniem i Mieczem)
Mount & Blade: Warband
- Vikingr (does not require Warband to be installed but asks for a license key)
Quake
- Alteria (originally Omen) [download]
- Battle Mech
- X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse [requires an engine port]
Quake II
- CodeRED: Battle for Earth (originally CodeRed)
- DDay: Normandy
- Digital Paint: Paintball 2
- LTKTBM (based on the Action Quake 2 TC)
Quake III: Arena
Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 2004
- Alien Swarm
- Damnation (evolved into an Unreal Engine 3 game)
- Killing Floor
- Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
Unreal Tournament 3
- Angels Fall First: Planetstorm
- Antichamber (originally Hazard: The Journey of Life)
- Renegade X
- The Ball
- The Haunted: Hell's Reach (originally The Haunted)
Warcraft III
- League of Legends (evolved from Defence of the Ancients)
Hopefully the respected community here will provide more information and more titles with a similar development history, perhaps in different genres?