16. My friend told me about it and one day I was at his house with a couple other buddies and he was playing it and was like "This is Halo, I was telling you about," so I said:
"Okay, show me some of it."
He loads up the first level and after seeing some brown corridors I'm like "eh, show me something with a lot of action."
He's like - OKAY, and loads up Silent Cartographer. After seeing the beach invasion I was like, I gotta try this.
So I sit down and we start going through the game from the start, the first level ends and we step out of the lifepod onto Halo. I'm thinking "This game is awesome." Shortly after that they drop off a warthog, I hop on the chaingun and he is driving. 20 minutes later I put the controller down, called my girlfriend (now my wife) and said "I have to buy an Xbox."