So, after purchasing Unreal Tourny 2004 a couple weeks ago, I finally got time to install it. Unreal goes way back in our family. :) Back in the day, when I first started working for Spacely I was stuck on a crappy ass graveyard shift — 11pm to 8am if I remember right. Talk about suck. So, obviously this left very little time for us to do many of the normal everyday things. Enter Unreal. :) Unreal kept both Heidi and I very well entertained back in those days. Our house was quiet all through the day, then around 10pm when we woke the LAN was energized and we entered the fragfest. This has to be one of the only shooters that Heidi actually liked, so of course it was one of my favorites. There’s nothing like gaming. And gaming with your soul mate is next to heaven — at least for a gamer it is.

So, I installed Unreal Tournament 2004. This is quite the leap from the original Unreal that hooked us back in the day. Thanks to the magic of the “nocd” USE Flag in Gentoo I’m able to play without the CD. This frees up the CD for Heidi’s Windoze XP machine. :) Yay for Linux. :) Now we can both play the game with only one CD (of course, we purchased two games… of course we did).

Ok, the game is 6 CDs! You can get it on DVD as well if you like. That should give you an idea of the scope of this game. Unreal has always been and always will be the best shooter out there, hands down. Certain games excel at certain things, but Unreal has always been well-rounded and a game you never tire from. There’s a few new game modes in the new one: Onslaught, Bombing Run, and Mutant are a few of my favorites. There’s the standard CTF and Deathmatch as well. Gotta love CTF! I won’t go into a full game review here, but suffice it to say that if you are a FPS fan, you must add UT2K4 to your collection. It is worth every penny and then some. :)

It was just like the good ol days. Heidi stomping me into the ground. I swear I think she hunts me down specifically in the game. ;) Anyway, back to the game. Take care out there!!!