Your favourite expansion packs and add-ons?

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Stealing an idea from Lazy Game reviews here, but what are your favourite expansion packs, add-ons or data disks from the days when such things came in boxes? Doesn't have to include PC games, I know C&C: Retaliation on PS1 was basically an expansion of Red Alert.

My favs: Opposing Force for Half-Life, Dark Crusade for Dawn of War, Civ3: Conquests and the two Morrowind expansions.

Original video here:

As ever, if a similar thread exists, apologies.

[ZeroAX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGa0Dfwu0Kk

I also remember really enjoying the Rise of Rome expansion pack for Age of Empires



EDIT
(famepalm) how could I forget my favorite "expansion pack" of all time:



(and I liked it much more than the "original game" too )

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I liked Yuri's Revenge. I think it got a bad rap at the time.

Sonic and Knuckles is a pretty literal add-on.

[fastbilly1]

Yuris Revenge made Yuri unbeatable in end game. So if you did not bumrush a Yuri player, they would become unstoppable. I was a very good Yuri player back in the day. Undefeated for 100 games as Yuri, and about 50/50 for the other two teams.

Personally it is a toss up between Red Alert Counter Strike and Half Life Opposing Force. Both gave you more of the awesomeness of the original, with a slightly tweaked multiplayer. Counter Strike also gave us those damn ant missions.

I need to give OpenRA another go since it is Red Alert and C&C1 in a more modern style
(with queues and a tabbed build menu).

[ZeroAX]

Yuris Revenge made Yuri unbeatable in end game. So if you did not bumrush a Yuri player, they would become unstoppable. I was a very good Yuri player back in the day. Undefeated for 100 games as Yuri, and about 50/50 for the other two teams.

. I don't actually play RTS games for the multiplayer . I like skirmish games against the AI (specially with Age of Empires), but the original Red Alert 2 is the only strategy game I've ever beaten.

[fastbilly1]

Nowadays I really only play skirmish with AI. I dont have the mental capacity to play against competitive gamers. Well that and most new games are right click, I prefer left.

[Ack]

After the additional units and maps of this expansion, I have trouble playing vanilla TA. And besides, who doesn't love a Kroggoth rush?

[fastbilly1]

After the additional units and maps of this expansion, I have trouble playing vanilla TA. And besides, who doesn't love a Kroggoth rush?

The receiving end.


Damn thing can take what seven nukes before it dies?

Speaking of TA, I did love:


TA Kingdoms, The Iron Plague. Mostly because it fixed all the gaming crashing bugs my computer had with it, and took a broken multiplayer and made it far more enjoyable to me. Though it did make the obviously underpowered earlier units even more obsolescent.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Because screw realism. I wanted dinosaurs in my zoo so I put dinosaurs in my zoo.

They always would get out of the enclosures too. I have no idea why that would always seem to happen.

[ZeroAX]

The thing that always put me off multiplayer RTS against players is exactly all the rushing. I was just too slow and enjoying the "base building" aspect to care to build an army quickly.

Heck, in RA2 even the AI was a bit too quick for me and I had to adapt to first building a defense and then slowly building my massive army.