Tuesday, February 07, 2006

An organization called Focus on the Family sends out a daily news update by email. I subscribe to it and today there was an..... interesting article mentioned. The article is about violent video games, it's written by a guy named Jeff Hooten, and it mentions several games by name; Doom, Resident Evil, Half-Life, Quake, GTA (of course), and the Halo games. It's a compelling article, but I'm afraid I disagree on several points. I would say that Doom, Quake, and even Half Life are too gross for me to play anyway. I don't have fun with those games because frankly, there's just too much blood and gore. Halo is a totally seperate story. I'm a huge Halo fan, as most who read this blog know; and I think that Halo is totally different from the former games. Halo and Halo 2 center around the Master Chief, a super soldier who has one purpose, save humanity as a race. He is about the only thing preventing total extermination of humans by aliens known as the Covenant. He use lots of guns, vehicles, and brute strength to accomplish his missions, but he is always focused on saving Earth. This is very important; throughout history, characters that ride out of nowhere and save others have struck a key with us who enjoy stories. People who are willing to risk it all to save others, people who kill to save others. Characters like John Wayne, Aragorn in the LOTR, Sean Connery in the James Bond movies and The Hunt for Red October. This is why the Halo games are some of the top five games of all time in sales and popularity. The Master Chief kills a lot of aliens, those aliens bleed, so there is purple and blue blood around in-game; but he fights for a purpose, and the gore is not overdone. Read it here.
Clan Hollywood Halo has just created a nice webring for all of us Halo fans, that spend a lot of time surfing. They feature all the major Halo websites, and a sweet statistics page. Check it out.

I found this on HIH. Thanks Ducain.
I stopped by my local Wal-mart and Rhino Videogames this Saturday, just to see if: they had any 360s, or if they knew when they would get any. The answer to both questions was a big fat no. So much for Microsoft bringing in more console producers.