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Nearly all of my home network has mythological names, too...
Cerberus LRP-powered router. The origin of the name should be obvious.
Durandal internal HTTP/FTP/DNS server, named after the sword of Roland and an AI from the old Bungie game Marathon.
Aegis My G3, where most of my work/play gets done.
Phoenix, my PowerComputing Mac clone that was stolen and then found (It was named Speak, after The Tick's capybara, before being stolen, renamed Phoenix after recovery)... again, the origin is an exercise left to the reader
Axis, my desktop at work. Not a mythological name, but sounds cool.
Halo my 2.2.5-15 powered Dell laptop. Again, not a mythological name, but sounds keen.
My win98 box is used exclusively for games and win-only apps, and has no name. I usually refer to it as just "my DOS box".

While not technically a FPS game, Oni seems quite promising...
Might have to make up a new genre for this one... third-person neck-snapper?

It's not quite Half-Life, but, I recommend you check out the screenshots of Halo by Bungie (remember the happy people that brought the mac peoples Marathon [2], as well as other fun toys...)

Check it out here: halo.bungie.com

It looks simply gorgeous.
Almost worth buying a mac for...almost.

Most of the sound effects you hear in video games come from commercial sound effect collections that one can buy (come on CD, usually).

You didn't really think that people played around with sound generators and such at every game development house, did you?

Good grief, that'd be a tremendous waste of time and effort.

So, no Ambrosia (probably) doesn't own the sound effects in most of its games, id doesn't own the shotgun/door/whatever sounds in Doom or Quake, Bungie doesn't own any (to the best of my knowledge) sounds in the Marathon series, etcetera.

Since Ambrosia folks seem to be watching this thread, you guys want to clear this up further?

(!!!!)
You're evidently not an old Bungie hand. blam is the secret word associated with the new game Bungie just demoed at Macworld. Not Myth III, not Oni- the one beyond _that_. I've seen a video clip of it running. It's astonishing.
Could this mean that they will port Halo to Linux?
You guys don't know Bungie like us macsters do. They have games still producing fans and newsgroup traffic (alt.games.marathon- one of the few such newsgroups created just by reader demand) years after the game's release. They have tighter security than Apple, or the heyday of the Politburo- but they _tease_... and there have been hints of 'blam' for YEARS. It's gonna be big- it's been demoed finally- and this looks a lot like it's going to support Linux.
Bungie _rule_. It doesn't surprise me at all that they're gearing up to give Linux the serious commercial support it deserves in gaming. They are bestsellers, really heavy hitters, and they don't do anything in a halfassed way. It looks like Linux is going to get equal status with Mac and Windows from Bungie. That's pretty big news.
Me, I'm just tickled that Myth II supports _LinuxPPC_... I'd never held out much hope for people doing that. I'm happy even just hearing about it. :)

http://www.bungie.com/oni/

-Imperator

I think the game you're thinking of is Oni (Japanese for "demon").

here's the Bungie's CEO's rant about the evils of selling a product any way except for direct.