1:06 AM
As can be seen by the time of this post, I have now gone completely nocturnal. I am disappointed to discover that I have inherited none of the abilities of the vampire by taking on their lifestyle.

So I've been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein this weekend, and I think I can honestly say that I would pay twice as much for the game if it were multiplayer only. This should be taken to indicate that a)I think the singleplayer game is incredibly boring and b) the multiplayer has taken my world, turned it upside down, and shaken it until change came out of the pockets. I think Tribes 2 is still probably a better team combat game, but Wolf recreates the WWII milleu pretty darn well, and the 'reinforcement' respawns work better than they have any right to. I've been playing it pretty hardcore this weekend, and I expect to keep doing so for another week or so--until I get bored with the short map rotation. That's the problem, see: not enough multiplayer maps. That's why I'd pay twice as much for multiplayer-only--twenty-five MP maps rather than the...six?....that are included. As witnesses friendly to the defense, I call upon Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade.

I do have to admit, however, that I rather enjoyed the opening cinematic. Yes, JP, I know how much you hate pre-rendered cinematics. But this one had a lot of nice touches--not the least of which was the score. I liked it so much, in fact, that I went and tracked down the website of the composer, Bill Brown, who it turns out has done music for movies and games both great and small. I reccommend downloading some of it (or, for those of you with download-unfriendly connections, listen to it via streaming channel) and checking it out for yourself.