Halo wins in video game smackdown

by Andrew Schultz

If you could take one video game and make it into a movie, what game would you choose? I think if you were to take the Gears of War series and make them into a movie they would sell out faster than the Harry Potter series. The story mode already in the game has given you a background on most of the main characters; if they would make a movie from a point to where you would be able to collect all of the information on the characters, that would make the best movie ever. Both games in the series are rated at least at a 9 out of 10 rating, which shows the hard work, great craftsmanship, and excellent graphics that was put into both of them.

Out of all of the games on all consoles that are a series, I think Halo wins, hands-down. The Halo story gives detailed information on how things happened and why these things happened. Halo 3 is the best just for the fact that the online is unbelievable, with numerous weapons, vehicles, and maps. One of the features in Halo is that its takes place in the future, not in the same year as we are in now, with aliens and all these make-believe weapons and vehicles. The year is 2552, more than 500 years in the future. Humanity is still alive but there are two other forms of people: the Elite and the Covenant. You are a Spartan fighting the Covenant, and the Elite are Covenant that are on your side fighting against the bad Covenant.

Most people try to argue that Call of Duty, Gears of War or any other video game is better than Halo, but they are mistaken and need to open their eyes to the new world of video games. Halo has unbelievable graphics and sound quality, as does Call of Duty and Gears of War, but Halo has ambient noises that will make you think somebody is behind you when they are not. Graphics-wise, Call of Duty and Gears of War both have excellent graphics, but with Halo the picture is clear and you can see clean-cut images. Gears of War has a cartoon look to the graphics and sometimes they take a little bit of time to fully load. So if you want the best video game, go out and buy Halo, but if you are not a Halo fan, then go out and buy any of the other two—you won’t be disappointed.