Finals

This week I have to take my 6th grade finals, or the Criterion-Referenced Compatability Test. (I know right!?) If I was still in Texas I would take the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skill. I wont post much except for this weekend...and today. Oh, and about my clan, I'll be postponing it for awhile until I can work on it more. Also, I'm still playing the Gears 3 beta, and if you want to play, send me a message.

R.A.H.

The tittle of this post is a reference to a new clan I will probably create; I have high hopes for it. It stands for "Religious (or Recreational) Achievement Hunters". It is just a name now, but I'm working on it. I don't know who will want to join, but I still have good expectations. Just so you know, I don't have too high of hopes for it, but feelings are good.

I Need Asistance

I am trying to make some YouTube videos, so I need your help. If anyone knows how to make a Machinima and/or how to port it onto Youtube, please tell me how. If you want to make a Machinima with me, hit me up! My X-box Live gamertag is kewljelani. If you know how to make a live-action, first-person, or parkour/war type videos, hit me up also! I want to make games, movies, and any other media when I choose my profession, so I want to start now. Thanks for your time. Remember to contact me if you've got the urge to make some vids with me!

Beta Bussiness

The Gears of War 3 Beta is here!!!! Well, If you preordered Bulletstorm like I did, then you would've gotten the Beta yesterday. Anyway, I'll be playing it most of the time I play games and will be lookin forward to anyone who wants to join me, soooo, I'll give you my gamertag. My gamertag is kewljelani. If you aren't one of the people who's destiny is to be able to pronounce my gamertag correctly, than you'll probaly wat o look at this when you are sending a message or friend request. I'll be trying not to be a total n00b, but you won't have to go easy on me.

Rated "GPO" for Gears Players Only (You'll unerstand ths more if you do)

Hey, I've noticed something in Gears 2. Have you ever noticed that when a Carmine gets blown up by a grenade, sometimes his helmet breaks and you can see part of his head? I've discovered that his head bits ook like Kim's head bits. If you've seen Kim you'll probably realize he wears the same armor as the Carmines without the helmet. I won't call this "lazy" character design, but it isn't very orgional. Epic should step it up in Gears 3 because everyone's favorite non-Cole Train bad ass, Clayton Carmine, looks A LOT like Cole. (He even has that non-black guy tan.) (Not prejeduce, I'm African American too.) So, what do you thnk?

Spring Break Event FINALE!!!!

I don't really have anything to say that is important, so...here...

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Don't worry. It's not pornography or a trojan. It's just a funny Machinima music video. If you don't know what Machinima is, I'll tell you. Machinima is a youtube channel that uses video games to make music, movies, and newscasts. Also, YOU the people of society can create them. How's THAT for user created content?

Spring Break Stuff Pt.3

For this installment I am going to share with you, my faith. I am a Christian. I go to North Point Community Church and accepted Jesus Christ as as the son of God and Holy Savior last summer. I went to a teen church called Xtreme, (now named Transit) and my small group and I went on an anual 6th grade trip called Bootcamp. There, we stayed on a campsite complete with wooden cabins and a messhall. On Friday and Saturday night, there were huge concerts. There were a few songs sung in that style every day in church, but this was 100% bigger. The Friday concert was the most special to me. That night I was with two of my friends, Chase and David. We were standing in the middle of the room far from the stage. Eventualy, Chase and David fell asleep on the floor and people made a circle around us for the two to have space to sleep. At one point, a song was playing called "Our God is Greater" I held my arms up to be respectfull and blend in with the crowd. In the middle of the song, I started crying and realised that Jesus was my savior. I sobbed through the whole song, and after, I felt reborn. When the song ended, I woke my friends up and joined my group to go back to the cabin. The next night, I rushed in to get in the front row right smack dap in front of the stage. That trip really changed me and made me realize that being a Christian is more about just going to Church. So, I encourage you, if you have a religion, whether it being Judism to Buhdism, or Christianity to Hinduism, to just go out and do the best you can at being the best Hindu, best Jew, best anything you can be. Even if you don't have a religion, it's okay for you to speak your mind. You can protest to people, and tell them there is no God, if that is what you belive. All I'm saying is, stick with what you belive, never let go, and don't change unless it's YOUR choice.

Spring Break Palooza Pt.2

Gears of War 2 Review

For the next part of my Spring Break series, I'll review Gears 2.  Just to get it over with, I WAS JUST ABLE TO BUY THE GAME. Now, lets get into it. First, we'll discuss single player. The campaign in Gears of War 2 is great. I was just astounded (or even moreso) at the story, characters, and gameplay. The story was very well thought out and really engaging. I liked how, in the start, you could choose Marcus' personality; to some extent. It throws you in with a choice to train Carmine (do the toutorial), or tell him to take point without any training (don't do toutorial). I love the difference in playstile of the levels. At one point you're on a giant transport shooting mortars to drilling underground and locating Carmine in a labrynthian hollow. The change of mobility is amazing. Epic uses the, "Anything You can do I can do Better" phrase for their idea of comandeering locust mounts, like a Reaver. The only thing I would like to add, (and this is not a gripe), is when you are forced  to choose which path you are going to take in combat, it would be nice to be able to choose the character you are paired up with for the time being. The finale is a sort-of cliffhanger, leaving the player to think, "Where do they go from here?" The cast is a colorfull bunch, and my favorite is Cole Train. He is like Grayson Hunt in Bulletstorm with his intercom speech, insulting the queen with a slew of curses is pretty manly. I'll describe the other characters in one word: Marcus-Christian Bale in tights, Dom-Liam Neeson, Baird-Every character when they don't perform an active reload correctly, Carmine-Johnny Depp as a pirate, Hoffman-Thor, Anya-Cortana. The gameplay is pretty good, but at some points in the game I felt like I forgot how to play except for shooting and chainsawing. Multiplayer is a blast to play, but sometimes people who are level 100 play with or against you in games when you yourself are only a newbie. I wish the ranked matches were filtered better. Most people in multiplayer rely is shotguns and luck. Once, I was playing a game called "wingman" where you have one teammate and are both the same character. My teammate and I were one of  the last teams alive until someone from the other team killed my teammate at the same time he got killed. I was all alone in there, so I pulled out my shotgun and hoped for the best. I leaned out of my cover and blind-fired at him and got the kill. That was the only time it happened, and it hasn't come around again ever scince. Overall I think Gears is, in a word, great. One last fact. My dad loves the game, he was the first to notice it looked like a comic book. Gears of War 2 gets a 4/5

Promises

Wasn't that short like I promised. Eh? Eh?..................

Spring Break Epicness pt.1

Bulletstorm Review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  The game that revolutionized the online score-board and punched online multiplayer in the face, Bulletstorm, is a prommising game. There are several gameplay types in this game, but they can be classified into two categories; Single-player and multi-player. All though very foul mouthed and crazy,(and trust me, IT IS), you'll be surprised to hear this, it actually has a story driven campaign! The story is rich with twists and action. You'll be on the edge of your seat with the frantic gameplay, and satisfied with yourself as every encounter is ended with an uplifting slew of swears and compliments. The enemies are fun to kill, stupid, point-sacks, but that's just it, they're stupid. Sometimes they just stand around and let you extract the skillpoints from them and drink the sweet, sweet neon point juice. As the predicessor to annother series, Gears of War, it is like that in one way more than any other;gore. Most of the skillshots in this game are gory and having something to do with dismemberment. Now onto the multi-player. For me, the multi-player isn't all that great. It's about co-op, but the gameplay is so frantic that you barely perform any skillshots with eachother. Now, even though I've mentioned them throughout the review, lets talk about skillshots. Skillshots aren't just some points on an online learderboard, theyr'e essential to your survival. Skillpoints are what you need to buy ammo and weapons from dropshops, or pod-like things that let you exchange skillpoints for metal throwing things that are also metal and have cool names................................The only problem with that system, is that when the dropshops have new things you don't get a heads-up. For instance, there is this hard skillshot called "French Revolution" which requires you to decapitate at least 3 enemies with a charged flail. There is a level that is perfect for it, but either you can't buy it, or it's not there.

So, for me, Bulletstorm is a single-player game. It gets a 4/5. I'll make more reviews this week.