

It only takes one of us to open something even remotely fizzy and another will shout “Ooooo, champagne!”. We assigned NPCs a host of different names – usually expletives – and we still quote the game to each other from time to time. Dead Island though, remains our favourite the camaraderie we had whilst playing it hasn’t been bettered since. Our respective other halves weren’t forcibly ejected from the living room, but we didn’t leave them with much choice either.ĭuring our Xbox weekends we have played through many different games: Zombie Army Trilogy, every single heist in Grand Theft Auto Online, Remnant: From the Ashes and more.

Three players, three TVs, three Xbox consoles, one living room. But we weren’t half-arsing these by sitting online with a headset to communicate with one another. Me and my two friends – who shall remain anonymous for this heinous act – would occasionally plan ‘Xbox weekends’.
