Garrett McClelland

This will always be my favorite Halo game, and the only one I still play today. Even though I don’t own my Xbox 360 I went out and purchased this on Steam just to keep playing it. One of my favorite things about the game was the vast customization options for Noble Six it really makes me feel like I’m actually part of Noble Team. Your fellow teammates are also awesome and so individualized, each of them are so unique with their personalities and looks. My favorite teammate was Emile, his helmet had the sickest design on it. The game has I think one of best plots of any Halo game, in part because it serves as a prequel to the original Halo, but also because every mission is amazing and the last stand at the end is a great ending in general. The Falcon helicopter is one of the coolest vehicles in the Halo universe and the mission where you primarily fly one from building to building is fun. My favorite mission in the game is the first one, Winter Contingency. It’s a great introduction to the game. Because I didn’t have online I never got a chance to play multiplayer, but I spent a lot of time playing firefight which was always fun. Playing from start to finish, Fighting off multiple waves of enemies is something I still remember to this day. Sadly Halo Reach was the last Halo game developed by Bungie, afterwards development was given to 343 Studios who are Microsoft’s own studio dedicated to just make Halo games to mixed results. In my opinion the series took a dive when this happened, but the Halo games developed by Bungie will still hold a place in everyone’s hearts. Halo Reach among them.

The first game i actually did finish. When I bought this it didn’t really occur to me that I didn’t really know the story leading up to 3. At the time I never played Halo 1 and only played the first half of Halo 2, but it didn’t bother me at the time, even though I was a bit confused as to why the Elites were allies. The story was great and had a very fitting ending. I remember people were saying Master Chief died at the end of game and that’s what other characters thought too, but I never really thought that, but of course he didn’t die. I had a lot of fun playing this game even the flood level “Cortana” was frustrating for me. My favorite level was “The Covenant”, flying the Hornet in that level was my absolute favorite part of it. Up to that point for me it was the closest thing to flying a pelican or falcon in the games. I would always play the same few levels that I liked, now I wish I would’ve played through the entire campaign multiple times. I remember for a short time I was interested in looking for the skulls in the different levels but quickly lost interest. Because I didn’t have online there was no point in playing multiplayer and I had no interest in forge. Halo 3 was the first game I completed in the Halo series, and I’m glad it was.

I got this game for Christmas, a Christmas I can remember being pretty bland. I only remember playing the song Smooth Criminal, and that’s pretty much it. The dances this game has you do makes you question your lifestyle. The fact this game is named after Michael Jackson is also pretty bland too. And these days I don’t feeling comfortable dancing to the songs of a child molester.

This game is first Madden game I played, and for it being on the Wii it ain’t half bad. I remember the controls being alright, there’s two different ways to use them, I forgot what they are though. I always played the Colts, my favorite team, and playing road to the Super Bowl was fun. You can play 11v11 player teams or 5v5 player teams, I enjoyed playing the 5v5 teams as they were quick and were a little simpler for me, a kid who never payed attention to football. I think however that I never fully grasped the full potential of this game. I definitely remember using the challenge call, despite not knowing what it’s used for, thinking that it was super cool, once again my kid, naive football mind didn’t disappoint me. Overall I had fun playing this game. So much so I remember the KFC ad paper that was in the game case.

I don’t think I properly finished this game, I just remember defeating the elite four then I fell off the game. I even used my friend’s Entei and Ho-Oh to win. I got this game after my watching my friend play White Version and decided to get it too. Even though this is my only Pokémon game I own, as of writing this, I somewhat enjoyed it. Now I understand this was the start of the fifth gen of Pokémon, but the fact I didn’t recognize ANY Pokémon made me feel disconnected from the game. Then again the only exposure I had to Pokémon was playing Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia and watching the tv show. Actually the Black and White season from the show is when I stopped watching. This is also when I realized how much I hated ash, in the earlier seasons not so much, but now he keeps me from enjoying the anime. I have been trying to watch it again on Netflix though. I had to restart this game a few times before I settled on my starter Pokémon, I chose Tepig the fire pig. One thing I spent a lot of time with doing in this game were the Pokémon musicals, I had a lot of fun giving my Pokémon accessories and seeing them dance on stage. This is what I spent most of my times doing after I thought I’d beaten the game. Writing this makes me wanna go back and play the game. I had fun playing this game then again it’s Pokémon I’ll play anything Pokémon, but I think I’ll enjoy playing the gen 4 and below games even more.

Considering this game was free with my Wii, it introduced me to it. I never had a favorite game, maybe tennis I did play that a lot. I remember playing baseball and getting angry at the Abby Mii cause she would always get me out, it took me forever to actually win a game. Boxing was my least played activity because I rarely used the nunchunk. Bowling was fun for me. Even though I remember playing with my family once and my mom smacked me in the face with the controller cause I was sitting behind her. Golf was my personal leisure sport but I okay at it. I got a lot of fun out of this game and I credit it with my love for the Wii.

This being the second Call of Duty I’ve played on the wii, I’m already used to the wavy controls these games had. Considering I had Modern Warfare for the Wii I was actually excited to get this one, I remember playing the campaign, best mission was Numbers. The graphical downgrade of the Wii made Woods and the bartender from the first level looked like they could’ve been twins. But that did not stop me from having fun playing it. I remember spending considerable time playing multiplayer. This being the Wii version I knew I was going to be limited in what I was doing but that did also not stop me from having a good time. Zombies was the most limited, the only map available was Kino der Toten. Five and dead ops were not available, I remember falling for a message saying “send this to a friend and get all the zombies map”. Or something similar. I also remember for believing a class mate telling me lies about his time playing zombies, I even tried replicating them on my friends PS3 and they still didn’t work, then again I was only like 10. My favorite moment of multiplayer was having a sniper battles with my buddy, I remember using the WA2000 and my buddy used the L96A1. Those were good times I will always remember.