Category: Entertainment

I pre-ordered Battlefield Vietnam for the PC today. After more than getting my money’s worth with Battlefield 1942, I decided to take the chance without reading a review. Now I only have to wait until the March 16th release date.

Tomorrow I’m thinking about pre-ordering Unreal Tournament 2004 as well.

Paranoia XP

Looks like the old pencil and paper role-playing game Paranoia is in the process of being updated for the new millenium.

According to co-creator Costikyan: “Paranoia XP is not an attempt to bring back an old RPG for the nostalgic. Its basic themes — totalitarianism, fear of technology, mistrust, and loathing–are, if anything, more relevant than they were in 1984. Spammers. Identify thieves. Blackhat hackers. The RIAA. Weapons of mass destruction. Totally dysfunctional government. Just as it did lo these many years ago, so shall the new Paranoia encapsulate and make funny the terrors we live with every day… or remind us to be afraid of things that we currently think are merely funny.”

More information can be found at the Paranoia XP Blog.

Unreal . . .

I have to admit that I’m very pleased with the Unreal Tournament 2004 demo that was released a few days ago. It’s renewed my faith in the franchise after UT2003, and has driven up a good deal of interest in the mid-March release.

Onslaught is a welcome game mode addition, and the return of Assault is of course good news as well. Other features include neat little things like voice support, voice command of bots and even a text-to-speech converter for income text chat messages.

The game runs well on my system, and I’ll definitely be looking forward to the full release of the game in a few weeks.