Paradise City PC Mods

If they can add it to the PC version, why not make it for all consoles, that way it is all around the board. I would like to add some big flat spin jumps and barrel roll jumps. Use the idea from Bungie and add new maps. It works for Halo.

I have experience with mods for several different games. The one I've done the most work on is the Quake 3 engine. To be able to make mods for games in the first place the developer of the game has to open up some "doors" in the software.

If we are talking about content changing mods like new cars or maybe new textures or even a new Island they would have to make their tools available to the community. Lots of game developers use a mix of their own custom tools and industry standard tools like 3D Studio and Maya. If you don't have the right tools there are really not that much you can do.

As for modifying game behaviour you would need some kind of api or extention interface or maybe even a script interface available. Again it is up to the developers. If they want the community to play around with their software they will provide some kind of interface.  It will be interesting to see Criterion's strategy on this.

I think my point is that I'm not getting excited about this until we know Criterion's official strategy on this matter. Having mods could be a real nightmare for cross platform play (PC vs XBOX 360 vs PS3). Modding also opens up a whole new world of opportunities for cheaters :-)

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I hope that isn't a question you find yourself asking often! "To mod or not to mod" lol

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