It's hard to argue that one thing that sets PC gaming apart from console and handheld gaming is the that PC games usually are easily to modify, and user created content is readily available. The reason I still pop in my StarCraft disk (yes, I still own my original disk) isn't because I enjoy playing Big Game Hunters for ten hours straight, but because there are always new maps being created.

I religiously find myself checking websites like http://www.moddb.com/ for ways to keep my copy of Half-Life and Half-Life 2 fresh. What I've been recently playing is a Modification called Zombie Master.

The idea behind this mod is that there are two teams. Humans, and Zombie Master. The Humans run around maps completing objectives such as "go outside into the zombie infested lands and grab a gas can to start up this car and blow up some zombies on the way" while the Zombie Master spawns an assful of zombies to stop the humans dead in their tracks. See what I did there?

While this seems easy enough, the Humans are required to work as a team as they give cover fire as someone holds an item and putting up barricades. The Zombie Master doesn't have it so easy either as he has to watch his resources and decide whether he wants twenty slow but spam-o-rific shamblers, or decide to create three extremely deadly but side-of-a-barn sized hulks.

While this game is in it's early beta stages there is a lot of potential to be had. There are some bugs and weapon balances that need to be worked out and the wait time once you're dead is worse than Counter-Strike's "watch these two idiots walk around in a circle". The mod requires an installed version of Half-Life 2 or Half-Life 2:Deathmatch to play so if you're bored of watching the same guy get shot in the face with a battery powered crossbow head over to http://www.zombiemaster.org/, download this mod in progress, and be prepared to piss your pants while you watch the ammo counter reach zero.