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Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)
Best of its Time and so far still the best. *No Spoilers* : )
Overall, Halo (Combat Evolved) is a very enjoyable game, and in my opinion the best ever played.
It takes place in 2552 after people have overpopulated Earth and spread across a portion of the Milky Way to other planets. A typically religious alien empire known as the Covenant have rapidly traveled to many of these planets destroying as much of the human race as they can. The characters of Halo escape one of these planets in a massive space vessel called the Pillar of Autumn, which you begin to get familiar with. This is where the game begins.
From the first cinematic in Halo the player is introduced to various character and engaged by what they say concerning the storyline, and if the player decides to pay enough attention to the plot they get a very satisfying story. Throughout the entire game the player is learning about the mysterious Dyson-sphere-based structure called Halo and its secrets. There are also a couple of twists and turns involved.
The game-play is exciting and generally enjoyable and like all good games allows the player's 'skill' to increase as they play. Some people complain about the repetition of environments, however like any good movie, the environments and locations in Halo revolve around the story, not the other way around. As well as the exiting campaign (story mode)experience that comes with the game, Halo has a great Mulitplayer mode,and thanks to its lack of online capabilities and inclusion of system link it can become quite social and is still always great to bring out and play with friends.
If you were ever thinking of buying this game, and have not yet bought it BUY IT NOW. If you don't have any Xbox consoles don't worry there are versions for PC and Mac computers, so BUY IT NOW. If you don't have it, but don't think you need it because you have one of its sequels (or prequel) BUY IT NOW. And if you were never considering it, still BUY IT NOW.
Avatar (2009)
Never Seen This Before
If this movie came out maybe twenty-years ago it would have been fine, in fact it may have become my favourite. However, I am one of those people who if I see the same film too often, whether I like the film or not, I will get sick of it and never wish to view it again. That goes for this film, I was sick of it way before I even saw it. How is that possible? Well, I think anyone else who has seen Avatar would know the answer to that; because the story has been used one thousand times already! Anyone who can't see this exact story in at least three other films really hasn't watched many movies before. C'mon! The only thing that they changed was the genre, but the things that made the film Science Fiction have also all been plucked from something else. I find it virtually impossible searching for anything original that can be found in Avatar. Then again, I suppose I can just not watch any other film for the next fifty years and then watch Avatar again. Maybe I won't be sick of it anymore.