So, video games. I loooooove video games. Especially first person shooters. These are the games where your view is what it would be as the character. You can only see what you would actually see if it was you. Examples of these games would include the James Bond series, the Call of Duty series, and my personal favorite: Halo.
Halo is a game set into the future. It has a campaign mode with a story line about an impending alien horde. I’ve personally never been a big fan of the campaign because my focus has always been on what made the Halo franchise so immensely popular – the online multiplayer.
Bungie, the developer of Halo, created the pioneer of online gaming through this series. Now other titles, such as Call of Duty: Black Ops, have taken the world by storm and there are a ton of new games that have online multiplayer capabilities. Most games made for the Xbox 360 today have some sort of online aspect to it, whether it is competitive, meaning against others, or cooperative, such as joining together to help each other out.
One of my favorite things associated with the Halo franchise would be its part in MLG – Major League Gaming. The world’s best players get together over the course of the season to battle it out, 4 v 4, to see who is the best in the world. The top 8 teams make it to the final tournament where the winning team receives 100,000 dollars! That’s a lot of cash, especially for playing a video game.
The tournaments are streamed live over the Internet so you can tune in to watch from your home. There are even ESPN-style top ten plays put on YouTube. It makes the game fun play as you aspire to be as good as the “pros.” It is awesome to watch what they can do and see how well they can play the game.
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