The Game

It was January 31st at 9:58 local time, I quickly placed my Halo 2 disc into my XBox 360. Seconds later the Bungie logo screen appeared, followed by Microsoft's... Within a minute I was logging into my "Live" account, and by 10:00 I was in a pregame lobby, awaiting my first Rumble Pit match of the night. Beginning at midnight (Eastern Time) thousands of Halo 2 players came together for three hours of online play, to qualify for entrance into the Halo 3 Beta.

A week later, those who had played for the three hours had to register at Halo3.com so that we could be the first to play the most anticipated game ever. I tried to register before I went to work, but the punks at Microsoft were probably still dinking their Starbucks and talking about how cool Zunes are. I have an amazing wife, who kindly checked in on the site throughout the day, and despite the bogged-down Microsoft server, was able to register me for the Beta...

A week after registration closed, I was sitting at the computer one night, and my MSN account popped up a message, informing me that I had some mail from Microsoft... It was here! I got into the Beta! Halo 3 is going to be the best video game ever in the history of the world. Perhaps better games will follow (Maybe Halo 4), but I've been waiting almost 30 years for this, and sometime this Spring I'll be online with the Beta, and hopefully by Thanksgiving we'll get the rest of the game.

Hopefully this hasn't come across as bragging or anything. Hopefully all of you will get the oppurtunity to play too. I'll even put out an open invitation to all of you; come on over and play whenever you want.