Current location:	Koobikal Hel
Current mood:	impatient
Current music:	Muted office chatter
Entry tags:	bungie, games, halo

Well, here I am...
Sitting at my desk in Koobikal Hel, with the humungous Halo 3: ODST transparent display box grabbing at my pants-leg every now and then, time grinds forward at a tectonic rate. It doesn't help that it's perilously close to 100% humid today, and that as a result I didn't sleep too well last night. Argh. Eight more hours to go...

It was a remarkably quiet pick-up; I was the only customer at EB, one of eight folks who hadn't picked up their Collector's Edition pre-order yet, and checkout took something like three minutes. The bus was early, the store was open early, and service was fast; so I had time to raid the Timmy's in-mall kiosk for breakfast before poking back over to HMV only to find that they're opening at 10am today. *shrug* Oh well, that just means I'll get the soundtrack album from Sumthing Digital tonight online.

The CE looks very nice. I did poke through the instruction manual to see the flash fiction enclosed and read up on any changes to the control scheme. (Not much; other than the "x" button being remapped to control the VISR instead of equipment it seems to be identical to Halo 3. Well, VISR and the lack of dual-wielding.) I picked up my Sgt. Johnson card but other than the plain-text description there didn't seem to be any special bennies. I haven't had a good look at the controller yet but it does look purty.

-- Steve also printed out a fan-made "ODST" recruitment poster Boxer put up over on HBO: here's the full-size graphic under a cut.