Halo2: X-Box native video game, sequel to the X-Box best-seller Halo (a first person shooter with everything from fairly realistic firearms to fanciful energy weapons). Very big among young males still in school, or without real lives, and for down-time among tech geeks.
Ah, thanks. As Mom to 2 girls, I know nothing of these things.
Note, HALO 2 also has a storyline line intentionally geared toward criticizing the War on Terror. I'll try to find the article and post it. Basically, though, it involves aliens who want to impose their religion on earth, and as you fight your way to the alien stronghold and kill them, you find out that they were just being true to their faith.
Hmph.
my son is homeschooled, has a real life and yes he's a geek and played it all night ;)