Best and worst game expansion packs

BEST GAME EXPANSIONS

• All Blizzard expansion packs. They not only make the best games, but also the best expansions. Notably, the Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne (2003) is that kind of expansion you could pay the same price of the game. Gladly.

• Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour (2003) – simply makes the C&C Generals the best RTS of its time. It’s so charming (specially the Challenge mode) that I’m still playing it.

• Warhammer 40k: Dark Crusade (2006) – this is what the poor Winter Assault should have been in the first place. A great expansion, awesome content, lots of fun. Pity the metamap game mode does not support multiplayer.

• The Battle for Middle-Earth 2: Rise of the Witch King (2006) – even if the Campaign could be made with more attention, the metamap game mode WITH multiplayer support from TBfME2 now enhanced and perfected is the best multiplayer experience in RTS I know.

• Medieval 2 Total War Kingdoms (2007) – this is one of the most valuable expansions I ever saw. It not only adds one new campaign, but four! Each one with countless of hours to play. It’s really impressive. By the way, I’m playing it now.

• Command & Conquer 3 Kane’s Wrath (2007) – Tiberium Wars is not one of my preferred games in the C&C saga, but this expansion kind of save it. Although the story line is the weak point, the Global Conquest game mode is very good. There are just two things that avoid this expansion to be perfect: the lack of multiplayer support in the Global Conquest mode and the Kane’s Challenge (from Xbox) missing in Windows version.

WORST GAME EXPANSIONS

• All “The Sims” and “The Sims 2” expansions – not only the expansions don’t worth the money you pay, but they degrade the game, making it very slow. These expansions are a factory of making money, but they compromise the quality of those great games.