Stick to the day job, Rio

Posted by: Nik Taylor

Pick yourself a team of game-loving celebs, find another team of grizzled Halo 3 veterans, pitch the two against each other for a quick few matches of Halo: Reach multiplayer and guess what happens? Clue: the red-carpet types do not end up celebrating.

Not even the presence of England captain Rio Ferdinand could inspire Team Noble to victory (or even, for that matter, respectability) over the hardcore might of Team Slayer at the Halo: Reach premiere last night.

Lewis Chapman, the 17-year-old Halo fan who beat 800 other contenders in online play to win a place as captain of the celeb team, looked on bemusedly as the likes of Ferdinand, Jason Bradbury and Mr Hudson ran round in circles, shooting each other and randomly lobbing grenades.

The cause of Chapman’s celebrity squad probably wasn’t helped by England rugby player Ben Cohen and T4 presenter Jameela Jamil, the pair of whom struggled to make a single kill between them.

To be fair, it was a somewhat unfair match-up – reminiscent of the kind of multiplayer batterings many of us will be familiar with when we first got started on Xbox Live. And it’s good to know I’m not the only one capable of blowing myself up with an ill-judged grenade when things get hectic.

Anyway, take a look at the pics from the Halo: Reach premiere in our gallery and then keep an eye on T&G for our full review of the game, which  goes live in the early hours of Sunday morning.

And while you’re waiting for that, cast your peepers over some of the other top stuff we’ve had on T&G this week.

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