As it turns out, I don't have to be well enough to get up at 6AM on Tuesday to speed to the mall and grab my reserved copy of Halo 2.
I just have to be well enough to speed to the mall at midnight to grab my reserved copy of Halo 2, and then stay up for as long as I can shoot straight while scarfing pizza and maybe some Rolling Rock. I haven't decided about the Rocks yet. But the shooting and the pizza are definites.
Why?
Because the first Halo was that good. Other than Undying, it's the only game I've ever played through more than once. Undying was a genuinely atmospheric, creepy game with an interesting story, and that's what drew me in. Halo was even better than that: it was a sci-fi action movie that you could play. It had real dialogue acting. Real music. Real plot twists.
So yeah, I'm going to the mall at midnight so I can stay up most of the night playing it on the Big Big Flat-Screen TV (OK, it's not that big, but it's bigger than the smaller version of the same model that I have in my office for ordinary gameplaying) with the stereo turned up way loud.
Geek on.
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UPDATE:
Die, Covenant scum! Die! Die, die ,di--! Crap.
Guess you can't throw grenades while double-wielding an SMG and an assault rifle.
Makes sense, I guess.
