Hello, readers.
Finding myself at a loss for what to update my Gamespot blog with, I have decided to share with you a story from the world of Gears of War multiplayer, on Xbox Live, this morning.
So. I booted up XBL and tried out Luxor 2. It was cool. Not worth 800 points though, in my opinion. Maybe if it had some multiplayer...
Anyway, to my dismay, after completing the Luxor 2 trial, none of my friends online were doing anything interesting. With my achievement points still dwindling in numbers, I figured I'd try a ranked Gears of War match. Booted it up, got into an 11 round game on Gridlock, which is a really poor map, but in hindsight the host probably chose it because he was too much of a noob to realise there are other maps in the game.
The host was none other than a guy called "Sichta" I believe it was spelt. He refused to start the game until we had 8 players. Fair enough, I love a good 4 vs 4 fight. So. We get our game on. Right away Sichtar's team kick our ass with shotguns in the sniper tower. I'm starting to think maybe this was a bad idea, but I decide to stick with it.
Next round things started looking up. We won, comfortably. And we went on to win and win until we had a comfortable lead. One of my teammates was a German kid, nice chap, bit of a sniper hog but it was really between me and him on kills.
When it's about 9 rounds to 4 in our favour (A round I just won for our team), Sichtar decides to speak to me in English (Until now he had been talking mostly in a language I couldn't understand). Here's what he said:
"Nicknab... you... you are stupid player" in a foreign accent. Yes. Annoying. He was beating me by one kill at this point due almost entirely to host advantage and the fact that the rest of his team were setting up kills for him. He couldn't even get my name right, but whatever. I decide, I'll get him back later.
The game gets to be 10 rounds to 6. Me and German kid are level on kills, Sichtar is one kill and a few points ahead of both me and German kid. If we win this, we win the game, and if I get enough kills, I'll get an achievement. Up to the sniper tower we sprint, german kid shouts "nooooooo" as he is slain by a lancer as he runs for a sniper. One of them has gone around the back of us, another is coming up the front. Biller, a teammate of mine dives forward and gets chainsawed by the one coming up the front while I turn around the face the guy behind us.
"Crap."
I realise my other team mate has died somewhere else, but I didn't see it, and turn to face the chainsawing locust man. Bang! top stop him chainsawing me. BAM! and he's in chunks. I mash the buttons and make Lieutenant Kim spin on his heels to face the guy now at the top of the stairs behind me. Unleash two shotgun rounds and he retreats a little. Kim shouts "Grenade!" and a grenade bounces at me feet, rolling from behind me (the front). I dive and roll towards the sniper and my temporary foe retreats, just for the guy who threw the grenade to run JUST past me before pressing B and lashing out with his grenade tag. He missed, only just, and I finish him quickly with a shotgun to the back of the head. The original guy has now come up and a shot to the face takes him down, a second shot finishes him just as the final guy runs up those same steps. I reload. Press back. It's Sichtar. Press reload at the right time for a perfect reload.
He has host advantage... I have the "I want to kick your ass more than you want to kick mine" factor.... A dive to the left and one shot directly in the face later, he goes down.
"YES!" I stick a smoke grenade to his body and start dancing around him. Victory is mine. I chainsaw his body which is kneeling before me and I feel fantastic.
... Then he quickly closes the game before the post game lobby, final scores, achievements, etc.
What a ****ing *******!
I bad repped him, and decided I had to share my intense victory somehow, even if I couldn't have the achievement to show for it. So here's the story. And remember, if you see Sichtar. Give him a negative review for me. ;)