Halo and the Violence it Causes

Many people have heard on the news about the 22 year old man who shot and killed 6 people and wounded many others. The news media says that the culprit for his actions are the violent video games he has played his entire life. Further more, they say that his favorite game was Halo. I'm not going to say that the news media is lying, but I'm saying that even though he played Halo a lot, that does not mean that that was the culprit for his outbreak of violence. Perhaps he played halo for the fun, or just wanted a good old Sci-Fi game, or maybe he did really play it for the violence. I honestly don't know, but I am going to say this, that if he really wanted a violent video game, he would have played a Call of Duty game, a Medal of Honor game, a Command and Conquer game, or any other game. Halo is not as nearly as violent or intense as these games, mainly because of its lack reality and tactics. When it comes to reality, halo does not have it. When you are fighting, you see obviously fake aliens attacking you or your allies. If you are doing online multiplayer, you are fighting people yes (Unless someone chose the option to play as the alien called an Elite, which is sadly unavailable in Halo 4) but the people are covered in complete body armor. Next is the tactics of Halo. It is uncommon to see people really working together, most of the time people are just running around shooting at each other. And Halo does have the option to build or edit your own maps, which proves that Halo is not just a game that promotes killing things, rather it promotes creativity. The violence in Halo 3 Mythic doesn't get any worse than the option to hijack a vehicle, which is not graphic or brutal. Halo Reach and Halo 4 don't go any worse than the option to 'assassinate' your enemy, which is an animation where you use your combat knife to kill your opponent, and even that is optional. So there you have it, I hope that the recent event does not prevent people from playing Halo, because what the news said does not prove anything about Halo being any more violent than other franchises. See you later people!! Stay tuned for more in the future!

Alternate Halo Game

Hello everyone! I have noticed that many parents do not like Halo 4 because of Cortana, (the Master Chief's AI), and Halo: Reach because of the swearing. And since all other Halo games before those two titles have both of those, plus more, kids who want Halo have given up on the series. The same thing happened to me. Fortunately, there is another Halo game that not many people know about. It is called Halo 3 Mythic. Even though the title has Halo 3 in it, it is not as nearly bloody, has NO language whatsoever, and it does not have Cortana at any time in the game. How is this possible? you may ask. I will tell you. It is called Halo 3 Mythic and is a SEPERATE disc from the actual game itself. What it is is an extension of the original Halo 3 game, except it has NO campaign, (thus explains the no language and very infrequent blood), and is designed primarily for multiplayer. You can do everything the original game can do, except it has no campaign and some additional maps not included in its predecessor. You can play online, although you need to buy an xBox LIVE account to do so, play on offline maps that you can play on with whoever else is in your house, and play around with this AWESOME map editor called Forge. With Forge, you can either go in a map that came with the game and do whatever you want to it, or you can build your own map from scratch! Halo 3 Mythic is obviously the absolute cleanest game in the entire series since it does not include the campaign. If the reason why you wanted Halo in the first place was to play the campaign , don't worry, the IGN review said that the campaign was short and not very good anyways. Hope this helps, and good luck!

Halo 3 Mythic Video

Hello everyone!!! I am very excited today to show you guys a video I asked my friends to make about how much blood there is in Mythic. This video is not the best, I will try to see if I can make a good review video myself for this, but this video is still very helpful since it shows someone actually playing the game. Enjoy!