Let Me Rephrase That…

I recently had a mild epiphany. My friend Steve and I had been playing around on our recently purchased copies of Battlefield: Bad Company and were becoming increasingly frustrated with the bad pings we were getting and the resultant lag. So, we thought, we’d switch back to our old chum, Call of Duty 4; it’s not let us down in the past, so why should it now?

Oddly, it was one of those days where – and if I can liken gaming to beverages for a moment – you’ve been rather thirsty and your favourite glass of ice cool water hasn’t managed to quench it. We needed something else. We needed some of that suspiciously blue liquid those athletes have to rehydrate themselves – you know the stuff, doesn’t taste that nice but it does work. We needed HALO 3!

I had rented Halo 3 when it was first released and I hated it. I didn’t enjoy the physics of the game, the gameplay or the idiots online who spend their whole time throwing random grenades and hiding in bubble shields – and no, those are NOT tactics!

I completed the main campaign before the game had to go back and I never considered playing it again. Good riddance to a horrid game – or so I thought.

I hadn’t played Halo 3 since the day it was returned to the shop so I’d had no cravings to play it from playing on friends’ games. For some obscure reason, Steve and I just wanted to play Halo 3 and I had a great urge and a strange, sudden lust for the game.

I was slightly short on funds as I’ve just purchased an HDTV (which arrived today) to replace the enormous CRT I had clogging up my desk, but managed to pick up a new copy of the game very cheap. Oh and HDTV for gaming with an Xbox360, linked with an HDMI cable…nothing short of epic!

Halo 3 arrived today as well. As you can see from the pictures dotted about this blog entry…here’s another one…we’ve been having quite a lot of fun on it. Theatre mode is fantastic fun and has proved to be very entertaining – and inspiring! I know it’s strange to go from despising a game to thoroughly enjoying it, especially as nothing has changed. But for me, I feel – and to use a vehicular analogy – Halo 3 is not a Jaguar E-Type like Call of Duty 4 (the E-Type looked great when it came out and it still looks gorgeous now) but is more like the pre-face lift Jaguar XKR, which looked a bit…not quite there, when it first came out, but now, yummy!

Also, the game must be good when one considers The Great Fry plays. I wonder if Kate Beckinsale plays too. She must be into that kind of thing. Surely, after all this time and the mentions in this blog, she’d be aching to hop onto the back of my Mongoose and throw her arms tightly around the waist of my Mark VI MJOLNIR armour as we career off towards the enemies, weapons cocked and ready to fire…*dreamy smile*

And besides, I behave a lot better around women than Master Chief. She’d be a fool not to party up with my chums and I.

I think that’s it for tonight. Bed is calling me. I just have to resist staying up and watching things on the new TV.

Oh and thanks go out to Steve for helping and appearing in the pictures on this blog – he’s the chap in the white armour. I’d link to his blog but he never updates it!

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