Last Friday I was casually playing Halo2 campaign at work. Matt walked in and casually told me the level I was playing, where the Convenant troops were pouring in from this pipe shape alien spaceship, was very difficult to pass if I were to play in legendary level. Later the day I mentioned it to Paul, then forgot about it.
Saturday night got a call from Paul, asked me to play co-op with him to finish that Chapter in legendary level. He had tried many times but couldn’t do it. I was pretty tired coming back from the wedding at the time. So I put it off until Sunday.
Good thing I did. That co-op turned into a 7-hour marathon of Halo madness. Freaking Convenant kept pouring out from the alien spaceship. And grenades seemed to do very limited damage to them. What’s worse was the co-op mode, unlike the original Halo, had no respawn! When one player died, the battle started over from the last checkpoint. And we must complete the whole chapter in order to save our progress…that means if we don’t finish the chapter today, we’ll have to leave the xbox on so we don’t loss our game play. Paul will be flying to DC the next day so that’s really not an option.
For hours, we were barely making a dent to that tightly packed enemy troops. During one of the bathroom breaks we checked online for tips and chapter walk-through, and then we started making some progress. But we were still taking turns getting killed under heavy fires by swarms of Convenant that just won’t die.
To make story short, we finally beat the Chapter at about 2 am Monday morning. I was in disbelief when Paul stuck the last Elite and ended the battle. The moment of victory was glorious but short, we were exhausted.
4-hours later I’m up and ready for work. I’m sleepy as hell but dang, that was a heck of a campaign level!