Wednesday Aug 22, 2007

    I happen to inherit an XBOX Game Console from my sister from UK. This is the older of the XBOX series( NOT 360)

    The first game me and my friend chose to play was the first man shooter "HALO". We selected multi player option with two players. The goal of the game was to get 15 frags (or some thing like that).we quickly selected one of the many situation locations from the list and before we knew we were playing our first XBOX game.The screen was split into two , one for each of us.

    As all software Engineers do , we directly started playing with out reading the instructions or hints :P hoping to intuitively learn and master the beast. We spent around 10 mins trying to find people to shoot at. My logic was that if each of the players had to get 15 frags( what ever that meant) there must be at least 30 of them/it ( 15 each for each player).

    We saw each other in the game scene a couple of times during the search. A little later we decided to double team and search together. We went up the mountain, down the tunnel , under water.... almost every were with no success.

    Suddenly just for the fun of it, i shot my friend to see what actually happens.To our surprise i was able to shoot my friend down. It was then that we realized we were supposed to find and kill each other :P. We burst out laughing and before we knew we were ruthlessly searching and killing each other. It was so much fun, we played (for hours) till my mom literally dragged us out of it to have dinner.