Favourite expansion packs?

[D3ads]

Inspired by the Opposing Force discussion in the other thread:

Quake: Dissolution Of Eternity

A lot of gamers tend to favour 'Scourge Of Armagon' as the superior mission pack but I found it a bit tiresome in places and enjoyed the second one a lot lot more. One of the main reasons is the whole Egyptian/Greek mythology thing, the levels are just so beautifully done for Quake and subtle changes abound with mummies instead of zombies and undead Pharoah demons. There are some really awesome puzzles and traps in this pack as well, most certainly my favourite expansion.

Doom 3: Resurrection Of Evil

I didn't like Doom 3 when I first played it, but I gradually warmed to it partly due to the awesome expansion pack that Posty's workplace produced. There was slightly more variation in environments, nothing huge but more outdoor areas made it into the game and there was a great section of riding the skytram back and forth to Phobos labs plus you had the artifact that more than made up for the loss of the soulcube

Half-Life: Opposing Force

While cast as being a bit of a disappointment in the community in the early days, Opposing Force is a very well executed expansion that is more than worthy of being Half-Life's little brother. It's more of the same again but that's no bad thing and reinvented puzzles (especially Pit Worm's nest) work very well. The biggest attraction to me was always the fact that you could visit areas of Black Mesa that you only gimpsed in the original game , running around the Transit system whilst listening to the sound of a broken intercom was just awesome. The new weapons were very cool as well like the displacement cannon that you could use to warp to other areas to retrieve bonus items and more and the spore launcher which was a great way to get rid of meddling Black Ops

[Izuno]

Op4 FTW

Haven't played Doom3 expansion, but maybe I will now.

I would also say Warcraft3: Frozen Throne was a good expansion, for the RTS inclined.

[Skjalg]

OP4

Broodwar for Starcraft

[Mazy]

op4, no contest!

[insta]

I've only bought two expansion packs ever, and those were Op4 and Blue Shift. Op4 was the better one, simply because it added more new content and because Blue Shift was extremely short (2 hours of gameplay).

[Sindwiller]

WC3:TFT and SC:BW. No Contest

Wfr, Sindwiller

[Hourences]

Total Annihilation addons and morrowind add ons, specially bloodmoon.

[Taylor]

Blizzards expansions > all.

And The Reckoning for Quake 2.

[Thrik]

Easily OpFor.

[Polaris]

Pretty much anything by blizzard and op4

Also Winter Assault for Dawn of War, because I think that is the only RTS expansion that adds an entire new race, not just a handful of new units and some tilesets. The upcoming second expansion for Dawn of War is going to add 2 new races

[Tequila]

Opposing Force, mainly 'cause it perfectly tapped into that Aliens-style hypermasculine cocktail of the military, warfare, big guns, and bigger xenoforms.

[Polaris]

Oh ya, and Call of Duty: United Offensive, because it took CoD to a whole new level in the single player department imo.

[PhilipK]

Omg Dissolution Of Eternity. Had totally forgotten about that one.

Had some really nice stuff

It had those glow versions of the nailgun etc right?

Anyway I enjoyed both Quake1 mission packs at the time

I'd have to go ahead and say Op4 too. But Blueshift wasn't bad either.

Also I can't help but I kinda enjoyed Quake 3 Team Arena too.

Had some really cool maps and weapons. Might be because I really like Q3 tho.

[D3ads]

Shots from DOE:

^^ I hated those things, they do a lot of damage in short time.

[JAL]

Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction is in my opinion the best

expansion pack ever made . I can't tell you many (thousands?) of

hours I spent gathering items and doing mephiruns & diabloruns