multiplayer game, video game console The year is 1943 and America is well entrenched in World War II. Dead set on taking the many chains of strategic Pacific island chains southeast of Japan, our naval carriers have moved to an especially important region of islands for future attacks on the Japanese mainland. After the multiplayer game loading screen completes, I select the American side and instantly appear on deck of a naval carrier with Spitfire prop planes ready to take off right ahead. I notice what looks like two Japanese Zeros high above making their decent down towards our row of ships. At that moment, my home theater explodes with sound as someone on my online multiplayer game team starts lobbing black clouds of shrapnel into the air from an AA gun. With no time to waste I run to the open cockpit and fire up the engine.

Moments later, I’m barreling towards the end of the floating runway and taking to the skies. The Zeros have since past overhead and are preparing to drop their payload over the American pilots waiting to taxi into the Pacific skies. This multiplayer game is all about who controls the middle area encircled by small islands. On one end are our ships and on the other, the opponent carriers.

I let the guys back on the AA guns deal with the pesky planes raining their digital gunfire down on our people. At this moment, I’m enthralled with how great the graphics look. I’m flying really low to the water to avoid any higher altitude conflict. An upside down U natural archway comes into view and I crank the joystick towards it. Like a movie, I blast through the archway just wide enough to fit my wings and hug the island coastline. I’ve been spotted.  At 2 o’clock bullets from above rain down as I crank the joystick up. Time to dogfight.

The fan in my video game console kicks on as I lay on the machine guns trying to lead the plane dodging back and forth. This multiplayer game scores points for every plane shot down. Call me Ace because the Zero in my sights is now smoking and getting desperate. He is heading towards that archway I just blew through. Leveling out, I get off the guns for a second to let them cool down. Right before he goes through I get on it again and Boooom, his plane hits the ocean. This multiplayer game lasts for another ten minutes before our team comes out victorious. If it wasn’t for video game console retailers like Bolluck Mall at http://www.bolluckmall.com/ multiplayer games like this would have escaped my radar. Nothing like taking to the skies in an online multiplayer game cockpit.