SiN Is Back
Don’t get your knickers in a wad, Reverend. I mean SiN, the PC game from 1997. Ritual Entertainment, developers of the original FPS from last century, are gearing up to release the first in a series of SiN Episodes — a seemingly innovative new method of content delivery over Valve’s Steam service. Rather than ship a full game in a retail box, individual chapters will be delivered over the Steam online service every few months at a cost of $20. SiN Episodes uses the Half-Life 2 Source engine and features the same characters and universe from the original game, which admittedly was pretty cool.
The 1997 SiN was largely panned; people either didn’t care about the game or they found the load times and bugginess too much to bear. I myself was included in that latter group, but just last year I rediscovered the patched version of the game and found it to be gobs of fun. As such, I’m quite interested in the new SiN Episodes — if they can pull off the same quality story, art and sound in the new product, and not deliver something bug-ridden, they’ll get my money all the way till the last installment.
Check here for screenshots from the first SiN episode. Oh, and at the same time you can also bear witness to the latest trend in computer-generated femme fatales — visible panty waistbands. (I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, though, after Ritual’s design for Elexis Sinclair from the original game.)
God…the more I talk about quitting PC gaming, the more cool stuff comes out. Guess I should threaten to quit more often?
Categorized as Games, Games/PC
Wow. That’s a blast from the past. I still remember when you gave me the demo of the original SiN. Wild.
Totally not related to SiN, but I have no other way to tell you this: I cannot access my email or my FTP server. I couldn’t email you with this info, as the only email address I have…is the one that’s borked right now (actually, both my personal and work addresses are not working). Thunderbird gives me an error about “cannot find an owner for that domain” — for either email address. I don’t know if you can help, but there ya go.
Uh…disregard that last comment. Everything is hunky dory now.
Yep, good old SiN…I’m interested to check out the first episode and see if it’s gonna be any good. The only thing that scares me is the fact that it uses the Source engine, which has been notorious for crashing both of my machines more than any other game engine I’ve ever used.
Weird deal about your email and http://FTP. But it’s working now, eh? Let me know if anything else kooky happens. Post here if you have to.
Oh, and I got word yesterday that the Birty Dird check is phyiscally in the mail on its way to me! Money coming your way soon.