- JAY132
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- Elder Mythic Member
I was either 16 or 17. At the time, I was only interested in Racing games (F1, Gran Turismo), and the GTA's (3 had recently come out). I'd started playing something alien (excuse the pun) to me at the time, called a First Person Shooter, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force for the PS2. As I loved Star Trek, I didn't mind it, but it wasn't really my thing. My idea of an FPS at the time was doom/quake/duke nukem, and I really wasn't interested in playing them. When the Xbox came out, my best mate bought it to play the new Oddworld game. He also bought SegaGT and this game called Halo. The first time I played it, I had a go of SegaGT, and thought it was rubbish, so my opinion of the Xbox was lowered as a result. The next time I went over, he had a demo disc which had Moto GP on it. I had a go of that, and loved it, but I wasn't going to buy the Xbox for just the one game.
He then suggested I have a go of Halo, as he knew I'd been playing Elite Force. I wasn't really too keen because I thought it'll probably just be mindless killing etc, just like Doom. However, I had a go of Assault on the Control Room, and it wasn't bad. Nice graphics, not dark and sepia like the others. Then, due to where his save-point was, I stepped out onto the rock bridge in the final area, and I was flawed. He got into a Banshee for me, and handed back the controls. I found them completely alien at first, took me about 40 minutes to get the hang of it (reverting to save etc), but that was it, I was hooked. Then, the feature that got me to go out and buy an Xbox the very next day, co-op. Absolutely glorious. Something that seems so basic in games now, sitting in a friends car while he drives, was literally orgasmic to me back then. Glorious.