Video Game Blog

Halo 3 is an addicting first person shooter played on the Xbox 360. It is a great game, which has been part of a series ongoing since 2001. There has been a Halo 1 (2001), and a Halo 2 (2004), before it, and there has been Halo wars, and Halo ODST (2009) after it. The game was developed by Bungie, and the publisher is Microsoft. It was first released on September 25, 2007. The game was a very wanted game, and because of this, there were over 4 million copies in retail stores.

The story of the game has a somewhat complicated story. It consists of 9 levels, which take you through the story of Halo, continuing from the previous games in the series. The campaign mode can be played by yourself, or with another person on co-op. In the single player campaign, you play as master chief. If you play on co-op mode the first player plays as master chief, and the second player plays as the Arbiter. The Arbiter is a alien who has come to the Elites side, to be on the marines team. In the story mode you go through the 9 very graphic and beautiful levels. Encountering many obstacles, weather it be brutes, which are big aliens, or druids, which are the small ones. There are also many vehicles in the game, which you can drive with a teammate or on your own. They have turrets and weapons on them to destroy any enemies.

I personally like this game, not only for the campaign but also for the fact that it has online play. The online play makes the game 10 times better. In online play you can go on a server and play against people all over the world. Online there are many modes to play, such as slayer, capture the flag, king of the hill, and many more. Slayer is just every man for himself, and it can also be played in teams, Capture the flag is where there are 2 flags and you have to capture the flag. I think that if this game didn’t have online play, I would get very bored of it, because I wouldn’t want to play the campaign more than once. But since it does, I am still engaged and entertained from it,

I think that if I were to change the game, I would make a bigger variety of vehicles and weapons. There are lots of weapons to choose from, but I think that if there were more, people would like it better. Many of the weapons in the game are similar to others. There are a decent variety of vehicles in the game, but I think that if there were more it would be a better game, because the vehicles are a very exciting and engaging part of the game. The game could also be improved by making the enemies more elaborate. I found when playing the campaign that many of the enemies were very much the same, they had similar features. If they were different from one another, I think that would make the game better. Halo 3 is a very good game, which has a very engaging campaign, and an even better online experience that will make you want to play it more and more.

Summer Reading Blog

Connor Byrne September 14, 2009

Be More Chill

By: Ned Vizzini

“Be more chill” is about an average boy named Jeremy in high school who has trouble fitting in and getting girls. After a few chapters, a guy approaches Jeremy in his grade, which tells him that there is a solution to his problems. The solution is Squip. A squip is a pill that you take and it is like a little person in your brain who tells you how to be cool. Jeremy takes a squip and feels the changes right away. The squip changes many aspects of Jeremy, it changes how he dresses, how he walks, and even makes him stronger. Soon enough Jeremy starts to see these changes affect his life. He starts getting more friends, he starts getting the girls to notice him and he is getting cooler. As Jeremy is getting cooler, he is also getting involved in drugs. After a while, he starts getting frustrated with the Squip and he regrets getting it completely. So, consequently, he gets rid of the Squip, and understands that being cool isn’t even that great.

The main character, Jeremy Heere, is my favorite character. I like him the best because I know him the most. You don’t get to know all the other characters as well as you do Jeremy. You learn almost every aspect about Jeremy’s life. Because of how the story is told, and how the events occurred, you feel his emotions. I find that in most books that I have read, the main character is my favorite, because he is the one that the author focus’s on the most. I think that this is how it is for most people. That’s one reason why I liked this book.

I liked this book, because I thought that it had a good story, although the author could have done a better job writing and telling the story. I thought that the book was its strongest in the middle, which I find in most books. It is hard to have a strong beginning or a strong ending, but once you start writing, the story writes itself. That’s why; I find books are strongest in the middle. I think that this is a good book to read when you are going into high school, because it teaches you about drugs and alcohol and the effects and how to handle them.

Pg. 104. “Ting. Whoa. Here we go. Welcome to SQUIP 2.5.” I chose this passage because I think that it is very important because it is the very start to all of Jeremy’s problems. When that squip turned on, he didn’t know that it would result in all those drugs and all those problems. Pg. 287. “So here you go, Christine. It’s not a letter; it’s a whole book. I hope you like it.” I think that this passage is very important because it is the very end of the book, where he tells all his secrets and all his problems to Christine. This it the very last line of the whole book, and I think that it was a good way to end.