In December 2002 a big change affected my life: I read in the November issue 11/2002 of the GameStar magazine a compelling review of the first-person shooter Battlefield 1942. The review commended the shooter with the award "für besondere Multiplayer-Güte" (in English: for particular quality in multiplayer). Moreover the game received a score of 90 out of 100. Until then I was only a fan of strategy games (e.g. Empire Earth published by SIERRA ON-LINE in fall 2001) but absolutely not of first-person shooters. I thought to myself that the multiplayer demo of the computer game Battlefield 1942 could be a good load test for the new powerful computer I had assembled at that time. If I remember rightly, it was Saturday the 21st of December 2002 shortly before midnight, when I started my first gaming session with the Battlefield 1942 multiplayer demo. On the subsequent Sunday at 4 o'clock p.m., that is 16 hours later, only a crash of the demo could coerce me into taking a break.

But bear in mind, that the duration of this gaming session was an exceptional event in my life normally determined by a certain discipline. Mainly three reasons were responsible for this duration:

1. The gameplay which I had never experienced before.
2. The beginning of my Christmas holidays: I was not in debt to someone at the said weekend.
3. My superior physical fitness and mental toughness.

I mention all this only because I had a telephone interview with a potential Swiss employer in 2007. When I told the listeners on the other end only my interest in multiplayer games they were losing their interest in my person.

Meanwhile my player experience regarding multiplayer shooters covers (in chronological descending order for the main game):

• Battlefield 3 (since November 1st, 2011 under my Origin Id TigerPixelDE)
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (since March 6th, 2010 using the alias ^TigerPixel.DE^)
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (since March 31st, 2009)
• Team Fortress 2 (since October 12th, 2008)
• Battlefield 2142 (since February 12th, 2007)
  • + Booster Pack Northern Strike
• Söldner: Secret Wars (in spring 2006, purchased as budget game)
  • + Expansion Pack Söldner: Marine Corps
• Delta Force Xtreme (from November 2005 to summer 2006, purchased as budget game)
• Battlefield 2 (since July 8th, 2005)
  • + Booster Pack Armored Fury (it is now free of charge because involved in patch v1.50)
  • + Booster Pack Euro Force (it is now free of charge because involved in patch v1.50)
  • + Expansion Pack Special Forces
• America's Army: Special Forces (only v2.30 in spring 2005)
• Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising (from July 2004 to July 2005)
  • + Expansion Pack Joint Operations: Escalation
• Battlefield Vietnam (from March 2004 to fall 2004)
  • + Mod ... - World War II
• Battlefield 1942 (from December 2002 to summer 2005)
  • + Expansion Pack The Road of Rome
  • + Expansion Pack Secret Weapons of WWII
  • + Mod Action Battlefield
  • + Mod Desert Combat
  • + Mod Eve of Destruction
  • + Mod Galactic Conquest
  • + Mod Home Front
  • + Mod United-Teamplayer

Moreover the person behind TigerPixel.DE is a veteran of the RTT computer games Ground Control published in June 2000 and Ground Control II – Operation Exodus published in June 2004. Both games were produced by the game development studio Massive Entertainment.