With this week passing we saw arguably the biggest release in videogame history. I'm of course talking about Halo 2, now its no small understatement to say the game totally rocks and is the best thing going for the Xbox since its predessesor. But I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk about how mainstream this release was. Previously the last time I heard such buzz generated outside of the gaming world was when Sony dropped the Playstation 2 back in 2001. I mean, there were huge release parties all across America and Canada. Gamers lined up for hours just to get thier copy. Heck, Halo 2 even scored the front page of the Toronto Star and the National Post here in Canada. Even on the Daily Show's Election night special Halo gets a cameo in a hilarious skit. Since when has videogames became so cool?? Have they become the new hollywood?? Or is Master Chief merely today's Mario (with Gordon Freeman as the slightly superior Sonic :P).

Also, while I'm writing this about Halo 2, I wanted to add something about Greg's review. I thought it was great, although the negatives he mentioned were pretty small when you actually play the game. Alot of Greg's reviews tend to exhibit this, its nothing really new. He didn't reveal anything to major about the game's plot other than there's a cliffhanger ending. Oh no! A game company planning a sequel?? Who would've thunk it! Also, alot of fanboys have been throwing a fit over the 9.4 rating. Hey look, 9.4 is damn good in my books. Certainly if you look at the individual scores (GFX, FX, Gameplay, etc) you can see that the game pretty much gets a 10. So in closing, fanboys STFU and go play with your Master Chief doll, I mean, action figure.