VU Games' 2004 lineup includes untitled Pandemic project

Yesterday, Vivendi Universal briefly revealed its games division's release slate for 2004. The list was displayed for several hours on the financial section of Vivendi's Web site, but had been taken down by the evening.

While the list contained no major shockers, it did sport several previously unannounced titles, including a two more as-yet unnamed games based on Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and a tie-in game for the June Pitch Black prequel, The Chronicles of Riddick.

Most interesting was the inclusion of the tantalizingly vague "Unannounced Pandemic console title." Pandemic already has two major titles--Full Spectrum Warrior and Star Wars: Battlefront--due out this year, but has listings for two other games--Project Y and Project Z. It’s a good bet one of those titles will be distributed by VU later this year.

The complete VU release slate is below, with release dates and editor comments added.

Previously announced:
Bard's Tale, The (PS2, Xbox) - TBA
Cold Winter (PS2) - Q3
Evil Genius (PC) - Q3
Fast & The Furious, The (PS2, Xbox) - May
Fight Club (PS2, Xbox) - Q4
Ghost Master (PS2, Xbox) - March
Ground Control 2 (PC) - Q2
Half-Life 2 (PC) - April
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude (PC, PS2, Xbox)- Q3
Lord of the Realm 3 (PC) - April
Men of Valor (Xbox) - Q1, (PC) - June
Outlaw Golf 2 (PC, PS2, Xbox) - TBA
Red Ninja: End of Honor (PS2, Xbox) - Q3
StarCraft: Ghost (Xbox) - February, (PS2, GameCube) - TBA
Tribes: Vengeance (PC) - Q4
Van Helsing (PS2, Xbox) - Q2
World of Warcraft (PC) - June
X-Files: Resist or Serve (PS2, Xbox) - March

Previously unannounced:
Barbie Entertainment (PC, GBA)
Barbie Fashion Show (PC)
Barbie Super Spy (PC, PS2, GC)
Barbie Mermaid (PC)
Chronicles of Riddick (PS2, Xbox) [Based on the Vin Diesel sci-fi epic]
Tolkien 4 (PC)
Crash 6 (PS2, Xbox, GBA)
Tolkien 5 (PC)
Predator (PS2, Xbox) [possibly the Sole Predator?]
Spyro 5 (PS2, Xbox, GBA)
Unannounced Pandemic console title [???]