Have You Played… Halo 2?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

Halo 2 came out just after I turned 20, and I bought an Xbox to play it. This was a big deal. I’d always been really careful with money, but I’d been living away from home for two years by then, and my discipline was starting to slip. Until that point, buying anything that cost more than £99 had been an agonising, days-long process of weighing up pros and cons.

But on that day, walking past a branch of GAME, I was struck by a sudden, vertigo-inducing notion: that I could buy something with a three figure price tag, just because I wanted to, and nobody could stop me. I didn’t just buy any old Xbox, either – I bought the fancy-dan crystal-looking one, and I bought it with the casual ease with which one might buy a bag of crisps.

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