Finish the fight!
That’s the tag line for Halo 3. Much like every other geek I spent last night hovering in line around my local game retailer. The head count turned out to be around 150 people. The shop was pre-ringing people at 9 pm-ish which meant, have your ID and reciept ready, go in the store and get your final reciept then stand in another line til 12:01 where you’re ushered into the store to get your stuff and leave.
The game shop crew was all decked out in camo. The shop manager is a Marine (once a Marine always a Marine) so he was in full uniform. At first it looked like the Army was there doing security until you got close enough to see who they were. The manager had some swag to give out for answering trivia questions so he was tossing out gift cards, xbox pens, and lanyards and expensive kits of hair product from the salon nextdoor. I personally won a bag of the hair product which is apparently like 50 dollars with of kit.
At around 12:30 I was out of there. David and I made a quick stop at the house of Wal to see if we could snag some of the Halo 3 dogtags they were handing out with pre-orders. No dice. They would only give them away with a game. I’m tempted to buy the game from them and then return it and put the money back in my bank account.
By the way, I have the legendary edition. I’ll be unboxing it tonight.