Shane let me borrow the first Halo last Tuesday so I could begin my Halo quest. I’m happy to say that the original Halo has been knocked out (I know… I know… just shy of 6 years later). To be honest other than a single 5 minute multiplayer match of Halo 2 in college I’ve never actually played Halo. I never really got why people enjoyed the game so much. Almost immediately after putting the game in I felt as though I understood. It’s been a long time since I’ve actually enjoyed a games storyline. Throughout the entirety of the game it kept me wanting more.

Tomorrow Shane is bringing his copy of Halo 2 into work and I will begin the second part of this trilogy. Hopefully I will be able to get into Halo 3 and try and unlock some of the achievements. Until then multiplayer is keeping me very much occupied.

Last night my boss informed that I needed to do some early morning/weekend (3:30am) maintenance and monitoring on our production web servers. Turns out that I didn’t need to do either, it was scheduled for 10:30-12:30am. So I stayed up for that and woke up early this morning to officially begin my weekend.

I’ve only played Bioshock for maybe 3 days at best and didn’t log in too many hours. I was surprised when I put in the game this morning and two hours later beat it. The game had a pretty good story line, the graphics were amazing, and to sum it up it was probably the best 360 game I’ve played thus far.

Shane recently bought Halo 3 and told me that I was not allowed to get it until I knocked out the first two Halo’s first . Well Shane, look… I won’t play the actual game yet but I need to start playing online. So once I can scrape up a few bucks for XBOX live I’ll join you in the servers (might be a while, I can’t afford to eat right now — heck had to get the game with trade-ins).

Tuesday Shane and I took an early lunch and walked over to a nearby GameStop in McArthur Mall. The day before we planned on trying to get our hands on 2K Games just released Bioshock FPS for the XBOX360. When we walked into the store, on the day of the release, and asked if they had any available copies of the game they responded — “Do you have a reservation?” After hearing this we doubted they had any extra copies. After telling them that we didn’t they said they may have one or two extra copies. I was surprised to find out that they had three. We quickly told them we’ll take them and walked back to the office.

After I got home, I popped in the game and was amazed at how realistic the graphics were. It took me a few seconds to realize that the graphics I was seeing was actual game play and not an in-game cinematic.

I’ve had the game for a 2 days now and all I have to say is ADDICTING! I called Shane earlier (since he hadn’t played yesterday) and his 360 crashed. Talk about bad luck!

Speaking of “addicting” I’m off to play for a little bit longer before I have to call it a night.

“Mr. Bubbles… Mr. Bubbles” — Little Sister