So as everyone knows I must have one five hundred word blog post for my schoolwork assignment. So all I need is a subject, or maybe I should just ramble on and on. But anyway, I will talk about video games. I love video games. It really isn’t that surprising if you actually know me. I love Super Smash Bros. Smash and Melee, though I have played the first one, it kicks my butt pretty hard. I also like Halo Reach, and if we still had an Xbox I would be playing that or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 right now. Probably with Lili.
So I like Halo because the campaign is pretty good, not really groundbreaking, but I really like firefight mode. You basically just select one small map and then try to survive against hordes and hordes of hostile death aliens. I usually win, but that’s because I never play on hard or legendary, which are the two hardest difficulties. I would be playing Modern Warfare because it has some pretty cool missions, and I would also like to play games with Lili.
I also like some computer game (actually a lot of them) such as Half Life and Half Life 2, as well as some of the various mods that have come out for the two, such as Pirates, Vikings, and Knights for Half Life 2. That one is pretty self explanatory. You get to choose either a pirate, viking, or knight, and then try to steal treasure, or just kill the rest of the team. Another one is Natural Selection, for Half Life. In that one you can be either an alien, which there are several different kinds of, or you could be a human.
As the aliens, you are undoubtedly getting the more interesting side of the fight, as you can be several different kinds of alien, such as Skulks, which are like dogs that move around really fast and can climb walls. Then there’s the Gorge, which can spit acid, as well as lay down little turrets and other mini structures. After Gorge came the Fade, which is a tall and deadly assassin like creature, who can teleport around and take a LOT of bullets. And then you get to the Onos (OH NOS!!!), which is a giant space rhino, in space.
They are really powerful, and really strong, and really REALLY big. They are so powerful that there is a limit to how many you can have. That limit is: One Onos for every twelve Marines. Kind of odd isn’t it? Oops, I almost forget the Lerk, who is a flying alien. None of that silly GLIDING stuff, this is real FLYING, which is probably the most awesome thing about any game period. It can bite in Natural Selection, but in Natural Selection 2 it shoots spikes.
The Marines are the more boring end of the…stick? They don’t have different classes, but they DO have different weapons. You have the Machine Gun, which is a machine gun, really no need to explain. Then you have the Shotgun, again no need to explain that, there is one in every game. After that you have the Grenade Launcher which is a pretty awesome weapon, though in Natural Selection 2 it is just a mod for your machine gun. Last you have the flame thrower, with is also a pretty self explanatory weapon.
But there is one unique thing (that sticks out) about Natural Selection. One marine (and in Natural Selection 2, one alien) can get into the “Commander Chair” and play the game from a RTS perspective, one where you only have marginal control over the units. He can build new building, drop ammo and medpacks when the Marines need it, as well as scan the battle field and tell them where all of the enemy Hives are.
He can also coordinate the movements and attacks of the marines. The aliens don’t don’t have commanders in the first one, but they can still make building and make expansions. Every time they get a Hive, then they can evolve into new aliens (If they have the resources). Such as the Fade. Now I guess that is all in this post now, as I have about two hundred more words than I was shooting for. BYE.
