Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Red Vs. Blue

Since Halo-mania I thought it would be fitting to write about Red Versus Blue. For those of you who don’t know what Red versus Blue is, it is a series created using the game engine for Halo and Halo 2. It is a group of people who add witty dialogue to video that they take from the game. So far they have made five seasons though there definitely will be more with all the popularity surrounding the new game. You can see all of the episodes that have been created on www.redvsblue.com. The basic premise was that it started as a video to showcase how good one of the cast members was at the game. However, while he was doing this, he thought of a recent conversation he had while playing the game a few weeks before. And so this humor filled series for Halo fans was started.

I personally love these videos; they add a lighter side to a very competitive video game. They can lighten up anyone’s day because of the sheer randomness of the videos. I also really like that it actually uses scenes that they make using the game. But this is a very entertaining series that I would recommend to anyone who would like some comedic relief in their life. These scripts are written by themselves and acted out by them also, so you won't see anything like it anywhere else on the internet. Without of further ado here is one of the episodes in the series.

1 comment:

TopFalcon said...

Hahaha, I love these videos. I'm not exactly caught up with the most recent seasons, but I've seen quite a few.
The thing I like the most about them are how the creators are able to utilize simple moves used in the game to create a realistic-movie scenario. To make it appear like the characters are talking, all they do is move the mouse as if they were aiming in the game. In this episode, Caboose falls over from exhaustion, which really is just the character switching teams or exiting the game, killing off their character. Yet, somehow they're able to find all these simple things that are used in a regular basis in the actual game, to create an awesome video containing much more than characters standing around with a voice over.
Lots of lols ensue.