Halo is a Xbox video game. The developers of Microsoft and Bungie created it.The game surprised everyone with its “amazing” graphics. People today would probably laugh at that last statement, but keep in mind all you had were pixel games like Mario. It is a FPS game that is action packed. Its first appearance was in mid November 2001. The story starts off with one man, Master Chief, who was taken as a child and put into military training. He was almost invincible by the time he was 12. Thus you have a spartan. No, not the ancient Spartans, these are genetically engineered super humans with metal bio suits. Dr. Halsey ,a scientist for the UNSC or United Naval Space Corp, created the Spartans. But who are we fighting? We are fighting an alien race who believes in a strange religion. They believe in Forerunners. The forerunners created these rings, not rings for your fingers but rings 1,000 X bigger than earth. On the inner side of them, they have land like earth. There are walls on both sides of the inner side of the rings. The covenant live on them and each have huge guns. If you have ever seen the death ray from Star Wars, its kind of like that. There is a planet named Reach. Humans inhabited it and it was like earth. Life was normal until the idiot Covenant came and blew everything up. Six Spartans, Emile, Jun, Carter, Kat, Noble 6, and Jorge, were sent to save reach. They all died and failed, but not in vain. Master Chief arrived shortly after and clear the place out. The Noble six Team took a big chunk out of the Covenant. Next thing you know we find the first halo in space. Master chief has an A.I. Cortana. She is about 1.3 feet tall when in hologram form and lives in a computer chip. Master Chief has a slot where the chip ...
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...ip is spotted by Prometheus, the forerunner planet. The covenant board forward unto dawn and are looking for the Chief. Cortana wakes him so he can save the world once again. Prometheus is a metallic hollow planet. There was one Promethean or forerunner leader but he has no name who saw the Chief as a threat. Master Chief accidentally awakens him thinking that there is a stranded star ship on Prometheus and by pressing a button it will lower the gravity field. That forerunner leader tricked him into doing that. Master Chief kills thousands of Prometheus and destroys the planet and the leader before he could destroy reach. Cortana used all her energy to destroy the leader and saves Chief. But sadly she “dies” or goes rampant. The story will start off when halo 5 comes out but the developers gave the halo franchise to 343 industries. So the halo community is waiting.
First-person shooter is a video game genre centered on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through a first-person perspective; that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist. The first-person shooter shares common traits with other shooter games, which in turn fall under the heading action game. From the genre's inception, advanced 3D or pseudo-3D graphics have challenged hardware development, and multiplayer gaming has been integral. After masses of video game evolution, along came the call of duty series.
The planet of Reach, before it's destruction, saw the massacre of over 700 million people by the invading zealot alien force known as the Covenant, as detailed in the prequel novel The Fall Of Reach. With Master Chief off-planet by the time the game starts, the stpry introduces a new team of Spartan super-soldiers. The six-man Nobel Team is a group of Sp...
As with most historical re-enactments, 300 places significant exaggeration on each civilizations central city-state ideologies and this is reflected in each scene by the actions of the individuals throughout Zack Snyder’s film. The representation of the Spartan warrior mentality through scenes depicting young Spartan children throughout their childhood participating in multiple life threatening challenges; are seemingly accurate as the primary purpose of Spartan schooling was to produce perfect soldiers, through strictly disciplined military training that began for all boys at the age of 7 as they left home to join the agoge. The agoge was set up in order to weaken family ties and create personal identity. These children were usually allotted no shoes, little clothing and educated through a vigorous training schedule of boxing, wrestling, javelin and discus throwing. They suffered through harsh conditions and were taught to take satisfaction in enduring pain and hardship, as well as to value strengt...
The story opens with the marines aboard their battle cruiser, The Pillar of Autumn. Suddenly, an alarm sounds because an alien race, known as the Covenant, has invaded the ship. Then the marines open up a cryo-tube. [a tube one can sleep frozen in] Inside the tube is the genetically enhanced super-soldier, known as the Master Chief. The Chief then defeats the aliens aboard the ship. After the invasion, the marines discover the ancient ring-world, called Halo. They then decide to search for weapons and other supplies on Halo. Unfortunately, the Covenant is also searching for something: Halo’s control room, which can activate a weapon capable of wiping the universe clean of all life.
After the Messenian war the Spartan people moved into the Taygetus mountains and there they would set up what would eventually become the military government of Sparta. Almost defeated, but maintaining the control of the territory the Spartans invented a new political system by turning their state into a military state. By making this dramatic change it in essence changed the everyday living styles of each individual living in the Spartan society.
Steven Pressfields: Gates of fire is based on a true story of how three hundred courageous warrior Spartans led by their king Leonidas and 700 Thespaian allies held off an army of over one million Persian infantrymen on a narrow pass in Thermopylae Greece in 480 B.C. for seven days. The Spartan Warriors were highly disciplined, physically and mentally tough soldiers that were dedicated to their country and way of life. The three hundred Spartan’s left home one day leaving their families behind, on a suicide mission to buy time for their countrymen to organize forces. Their sacrifice was unparalleled and their dedication and battle skill struck fear in the hearts and minds of their enemy.
Robocop, released in 1987 directed by Paul Verhoeven, is a film about the city of Detroit which suffers from many crimes, to stop these crimes they create a part human robot that is indestructible, but they encounter problems a long the way. On the other hand, WarGames was released in 1983 directed by John Badham, this film is about a teenager that discovers a glitch in the military computer and almost causes a war with Russia. The film Robocop and WarGames are ones that focus on the time periods of the 1970’s and the impact that the government had on the people.
In 2007, history was born. In a less climatic way, Transformers, an American science fiction action film based on the toy line was debuted. The sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was released in the summer of 2009. Two years later, the third installment of the live action series, Transformers Dark of the Moon was released. In present day, enthusiastic fans await the arrival of the fourth installment of the Transformers film series, Transformers Age of Extinction. Within each film is the advancement of technology used to create the film and the improvement of the computer generated imagery that was heavily used. Michal Bay’s Transformer Dark of the Moon has debuted and created one of the most complicated computer generated models ever been made. Because of him and his team, millions of enthusiasts have come to appreciate the work of art as well as the computer generated imagery that was used to create some of our favorite characters.
Assassin’s Creed is an open-world action and adventure game, developed by Ubisoft Montreal for single player and Ubisoft Annecy for multiplayer. The game inspired by the novel Alamut by Vladimir Bartol, allows the player to move freely in a virtual world and make their own choices in terms of how and when to approach missions. The games are set in a fictional history of real world events and follow the centuries - old struggle between Assassin’s, who fight for peace with free will, and the Templars who desire peace through control and power. The main story contains the rivalry of those two secret societies and their relation to ancient species, who was destroyed by a massive solar storm.
Spartans were originally Dorians who had come to Laconia as an invading army. Although by the end of the ninth century they had conquered all of Laconia but still were not satisfied. West of the Taygetus Mountains was the fertile plain of Messenia. The Spartans were determined to conquer, and they were successful in their goal to dominate the Messenians. The Spartans took the land of the Messenians, Killed and expelled their leaders, and turned the general population into slaves called helots. Almost all of the features of Spartan life resulted from the Messenian wars. Unfortunately when they enslaved their enemies they unknowingly and foolishly enslaved themselves. “They lived through the remaining centuries of their history in deadly fear of insurrections. This fear explains their conservatism, their stubborn resistance to change, lest any innovation result in a fatal weakening of the system.”
Marvel’s Ultimate Alliance 2. Play Station 3 Version. Vicarious Visions, Savage Entertainment. Activision. 2009. Video Game.
The education of the youth establishes a precedent for the differences between the way Spartans and Athenians lead their lives. At age seven, training for the military began for all Spartan boys, they’re forced to leave their homes and go to military schools, where they endure all types of harsh training and discipline. The main lesson was learning to take pride in enduring pain and hardships. During their teenage years they were taught wrestling, ...
Prometheus begins with the depiction of some unknown planet, panning across uninhabited landscapes and remote locations as slow tempo orchestra music plays over the shots. It eventually pans up to show some sort of circular disk hovering ov...
Page One - Call of Duty. A gaming series created by Infinity Ward that is one of the most popular first-person shooter games. The very first Call of Duty game came out on October 29, 2003. Winning over eighty awards for the Game of the Year. Starting off the series in a great start, the second Call of Duty was released to Xbox 360, which sold more than one million copies, and that year was the bestselling game. Call of Duty MW2 alone brought $310 million to the United States, United Kingdom and Australia only. As of today, there are 10 Call of Duty games out. Call of Duty, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty World at War, Call of Duty 3, Call of duty Modern Warfare, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty Modern warfare 3, Call of Duty Black Ops, Call of Duty Black Ops 2, and Call of Duty Ghost are the main Call of Duty games out today. Call of Duty Ghost is ranked number 3 for top video games in the United States.
The halo effect phenomenon is researched by Nisbett & Wilson (1977) and published in their experimental paper titled The Halo Effect: Evidence for Unconscious Alteration of Judgments and will be the main topic of this paper. The halo effect, also known as the physical attractiveness stereotype is a form of cognitive bias in which we assume that people who are physically attractive are also blessed with other appealing attributes such as kindness and intelligence. Limited information about the halo effect is known, and experiments conducted on the topic are even scarcer. This stereotype is portrayed to us at a young age through most Disney movies where we learn that if something is beautiful it is also good. A prime example is Cinderella and