One day, when I was in my early teens, my dad had picked up an Xbox 360 out of the blue and I was incredibly excited to get my mitts on it. I remember booting up the system and being blown away by the design and colours of the Blades dashboard, playing Halo 3 and Gears of War and being in awe at the gorgeous graphics and watching the hours fly by in co-op with my siblings.
Shortly afterwards my Dad picked up EDF for literal pennies, and my love for the series quickly snowballed from there. It was jank as hell, ugly and felt cheap as heck, but it was incredibly fun and dumb in all the best ways! I lost even more countless hours in solo and co-op with my younger brother and we became obsessed with this series ever since. EDF! EDF! EDF!!!