The modder, Nightmare Doors, has a demo up you can download now, and the rest of the mod will be available until the end of the year. Pretty much the only shred of SC2‘s original game is the engine, which was used to build this game. One mad modder has announced a simply massive overhaul to StarCraft 2‘s Legacy of the Void expansion called Dead Zone: Hope Lost, that turns the game into an entirely new, 25 chapter, survival horror experience. StarCraft as a series isn’t totally alien to total conversion mods, there’s a great one for the original SC that turns it into WarCraft 3… in case you didn’t own that too, I guess. Day Z is an example, having started as a total conversion of Arma 2, and most famously there are games like Counter Strike (a total conversion of Half-Life 1), Team Fortress ( Quake) and Garry’s Mod ( Half-Life 2). Total conversion mods replace massive aspects of a game, from completely overhauling the visuals and models to core aspects of the original gameplay. Mods can do all sorts of neat things to games that give them a little extra life, from the minor (fun costumes, goofy weapons) to the major (new missions, new story content, etc.), but it’s a rare treat see stuff to the extent of a total conversion mod.
As a childhood StarCraft fan, this is nuts.
