But once you are in the changing rooms and strapping up then it started to feel like a normal game.
The runners in Blitz move so quickly that they pick up 20 yards in the time it takes normal video game athletes to gain five.
We just had a normal kind of game nothing out of the ordinary for us.
Zanzibar held guest side Zambia to a goalless draw in normal time and the game then went straight to spot kicks.
At the end of normal time, the game remained scoreless, as the dropping temperatures and deadlock in the match served to quiet the sell-out crowd in the Soccer City Stadium.
That's because its bankruptcy was orchestrated by a union-friendly administration that changed the normal rules of the game that would have required GM's unsecured creditors--such as the United Auto Workers--to forgo most of their claims.
Ryan Giggs missed a good chance to win the game for United in normal time.
Coventry drew level with nine minutes of normal time remaining, taking the game into extra time.
Game playing is a normal part of (mammalian at least) childhood.
Ms Grace said she believed the same hackers had attacked WoW before but not to this extent, with characters being destroyed again after "reincarnation" as is normal within the confines of the game.
But it's part of the machismo of the game that a common cold or illness that would keep a normal person out of work shouldn't cause a player to miss a game.
The game is basically just like normal soccer, but it's played on a wet, marshy swamp.
Swindon Town is offering to sell tickets on the basis the game will go ahead as normal in front of fans.
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However, Derry substitute Eamon Burke then hammered over his first ever championship point to level the game with seven minutes of normal time left.
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Points from Gerard McAvoy and Paul Devlin levelled the game before the end of normal time and Donal Kane and Devlin then added further scores in injury-time to leave Mayobridge shell-shocked.
The veteran keeper kept his side in the game with seven minutes of normal time on the clock as he brilliantly turned away Srna's free-kick after Petric had been fouled on the edge of the area.
So much time has passed without certainty that a normal one-year extension would not be a game-changer for our 2013 build plans.
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With Detroit enjoying an off day before the next series against the Yankees, Verlander was on schedule to start Game 3 of the ALCS on his normal four days rest.
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But this was normal because there was a lot of pressure on this game.
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But the groups who played the computer game showed a clear improvement compared with the normal loss of cognitive function as people age.
There were a couple of days leading up to the big game that were less than productive when measured against the normal work week, but everyone in the office had a good time, we were able to let our hair down and enjoy a little camaraderie as friends.
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Not only are the 3D controls intuitive, but the developer didn't tamper with the normal ones you expect in a ground-based real-time strategy game.
The Cardinals, always a strong draw anyway, are up 2, 000 a game this year to just over 40, 000, a normal bounce for a team coming off a World Series victory.
On the main TV monitor, I could watch out the front window of the car, a normal point of view familiar to anyone who has ever played a driving game.
Ancelotti's decision was almost immediately vindicated when Drogba equalised with his first touch, though Chelsea had to play the remainder of the game with 10 men after Kalou limped off with 20 minutes of normal time left.
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In short, a business that is already outside normal anti-trust law (thanks to an ancient ruling that treats each game as a discrete activity within a single state, and thus exempt from the laws of interstate commerce) would become even more like a cartel.
In a change from normal procedure, the singer will give her songs their first public plays through the game.
It seems likely that game-based learning will no longer be a novelty, but rather a normal part of the school experience in the coming decade.
It is all very normal and all part and parcel of giant pandas - it's just really a waiting game now.
Federer opened the second set with a double-fault but normal service was quickly resumed and a thumping ace down the 'T' helped him take game one with little reason for concern.
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