Marc Shephard

Games Studies Machinima review

Machinima is a term that refers to movies that are created using a games engine. Engines from first person shooters and role-play games are the most commonly used video games. Machinimas are created using the tools and resources available in the game. Machinima is a process of put the gameing tools to an unexpected ends.

Advantages

Easier movie making

Lower cost

Smaller production time

Smaller distribution


Disadvantages

Limited capabilities

High playback hardware requirements


Halo machinima: Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles

The most popular and well-known halo machinima would have to the Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles series, created by Rooster Teeth Productions. It is a comic halo series in which tells the story of two teams fighting a civil war in a box cannon. Each team have a small base in the cannon, both teams exist only in a response of the other teams base. Although the teams dislike each other and have order the defeat the other team, the solders rearly have the motivation to fight. Each team has an interesting array of characters and they each have their own eccentric personalities, and often create more trouble for each other rather than their enemies.


I am going to review the Red vs. Blue series Out of mind (the story takes place between episodes 77 and 78) it is a story of a female soldier called Tex (and yes I know it’s a guys name), tracks and hunts down another soldier call Wyonming so she can get to his boss. The story then flashes backs to an implementation of an AI call Omega into Tex. After the flash back, Tex then meets another Soldier from the same implementation process called York and recruits him to help storm the base in which Wyonming is held up. In the base the two soldier end up in a fire fight between them and Wyonming and his two henchmen, in the fight York gets fatally wounded, but with the help of Yorks AI Delta, Tex manages to defeat Wyonming, and get the information she needed from him.

I though the story was put together and well shot IT the cast was small as in most of the Red vs. Blue movies but the story was soldier and had objective. It was fun to watch, and had it moments I would recommend it.

posted by Marc @ 4:40 AM