I got all my shit together and packed, so I busted out the Halo 3. I checked my friends list, and Mike was on, so I sent him a message and we started to play the campaign together. Turns out we were on the same level, so it was a perfect arrangement.
There was much death, but we got through it. It culminated when, on this huge level, a "scarab" tank came over the building and started walking around and blowing shit up all over the place. Mike and some of the grunts weakened its joints enough to temporarily cripple it, and I managed to jump off of a crane tower to get inside of it and blow it up from the inside.
It. Was. Awesome.
I've never been that interested in multi-player death match really, and even the team stuff, capture the flag or whatever, tends to have too many people to have fun. But this was cool. Using the voice communication we were able to talk to each other about what was going on around us, and coordinate movement. All the while, we were advancing through the level and the story.
I have to hand it to the Bungie guys. The game is amazingly pretty with crazy visual detail, but they're pulling off serious network, AI and general programming voodoo as well. They deserve to have beat every one-day sales record for every form of entertainment (that's movies, DVD's, books... everything).
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