I know this may be considered a trivial thing, but I found it lots of fun when playing things like Unreal Tournament (the 1999 edition) to name the AI. You then could have fun blowing up people you know... ;-) Anyway, I thought it might be nice to name the AI before the game starts to add a fun/familiarity.
I agree. Back in the secondary school and then the university I modified the PodBot (bots for CounterStrike) names file to have names of all the teachers. Weird that just names made the bots funnier to play against .
Tankwars back in the day had some of the best alliterative AI names, wish I could remember them, things like Windshot Willie.