By Eli Green
September 25, 2007 - 14:15
Fans
and media were out in full force last night, all waiting for the
launch of
Halo
3
.
I was down at the Dundas Square Best Buy to check out the nights
happenings, and quite a bit was going on. Walking from Yonge St. and
Dundas the crowd was quite noticeable, and arriving at Xbox Canada's
Halo
3
event
tent, the sound was pumping and the atmosphere was high. Inside the
tent, groups of people were taking each other on in Red vs. Blue
eight-on-eight multiplayer. Major
League Gaming Canada was also on hand to promote the upcoming MLG
Canadian Open (November 2
nd
to
4
th
at
the Direct Energy Centre), and MLG Canada's own Nelson “G-SpOt”
Triana (Canada's top ranked gamer) was giving challengers a lesson in
humility, taking them one-on-one and winning every time (he had only
started
playing
Halo
3
earlier that day).
The Master Chief Signal
“ Just like everybody else, I'm playing Halo 3 for the first time,” said “G-SpOt” about his presence at the launch event last night, “but because I'm Canada's top gamer, I have to play against the challengers. They have my section and a different section. Whoever wins in the different section comes to me and I play against them one-on-one. So far I haven't lost. The only person I've actually lost to is my own teammate, TheBo. He's pretty nasty at Halo 3 . He's definitely a good player, but I'll get to him.”
When asked about the launch of Halo 3 he said, “I'm very excited. As soon as I get the game, I'm not even going to go on Xbox Live to play the multiplayer. I'm going to play the campaign story first, until I finish it, just because I'm curious to see what happens. From then I'm probably end up playing on Xbox Live to play against the rest of the world.”
A Spartan leads the pre-order lineup inside. |