PC Gaming Update.(Battlefield Vietnam and Unreal Tournament 2004)(Brief Article)

Just in time to save PC gamers from the brain-melting drought of quality games come two of the biggest titles of the year, games that both excel in one of the things the PC does best: gi-friggin-normous online multiplayer action.

Battlefield Vietnam isn't a full-on sequel to the digitized crack that is Battlefield 1942--that will be released late this year or early next. No, Vietnam is a "brand extension," but unlike most of these aberrations it actually enhances instead of cheapens the brand. The sprawling, foliage-choked maps of Vietnam are some of this budding franchise's best, including a ruined temple and, my favorite, a bombed-out town the North Vietnamese have …