Red Vs Blue - Season One - The Blood Gulch Chronicles
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Comedy "A gruff sargent. An unlucky ghost.A psychotic mercenary. A sarcastic slacker. Two morons. A tank... War is hell. In the distant future, ten soldiers battle for control of the least desirable piece of real estate in the known universe - a box canyon in the middle of nowhere."
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I don't play HALO
But a friend of mine got me hooked on the series by showing me the first few episodes. The humor is not just for gamers. My Mom watched this DVD and, having worked on an air force base, understood the military humor even if there was a little too much cussing for her. But she lived on a farm in Michigan, so it didn't bother her as much as it could other Moms. Has cool audio commentary that tells you stuff about behind the scenes issues and problems with making the episodes. Also special scenes, outtakes and new music. Well, different music then used on the online episodes.
One of the Funniest things I've Ever Seen!
I first heard about this from a friend of mine in college. Both being Halo fans he figured I would enjoy it immensely. I have to say this is incredibly inventive! It's almost an entirely new way to think of animation. It's actually called "machinima". This first started off as an internet craze and sure you can see episodes there, but to have it on DVD is just SO much better in my opinion. It's definitely my preferred medium for watching anything. I think most anyone into gaming will find some serious comedic factor in this, but I think it helps a lot more if you've ever done some multiplayer gaming. Namely scenarios like death match or capture the flag. Most people in my generation have some experience with a game called Counterstrike (based off of Half Life) and that's the one I used to play. I didn't do much multiplayer gaming with Halo, but I think having that base knowledge in some form of multiplayer made Red vs. Blue all the more hilarious!
This whole series is recorded "in game" on Halo! One of the most, if not most popular, game released for the Xbox. Basically this takes place on a multiplayer map called "Blood Gulch" and it's loaded with a capture the flag scenario. Here we have the red team versus the blue team, as the title obviously states. Now most people grasp this concept and expect a huge amount of battling and war to ensue. This doesn't happen. Instead this has a script and follows a very interesting notion that what if this was a major scale war! This means you have large military backing to support this silly capture the flag scenario in a box canyon that you can only air lift people out of. It also helps that both sides, for the most part, are completely inept! It's a very silly show that will have people roaring in laughter. It definitely helps if you have a very sarcastic and cynical sense of humor. Also this whole thing isn't very "innocent" for there is a load of harsh language and very adult concepts. Naturally we're talking teenager to college demographic for the most part. Personally, I'll probably always find things like this funny.
We actually have a very interesting array of characters on both teams. However, this being volume one, I can tell they were still in the process of truly developing the characters. Even some of the voices used change over the series as they refined points that made the characters funnier. I've watched all five volumes by now and recently went to revisit this, Caboose's voice, for example, developed into something far sillier and made his character all the better in later episodes. We see a quick shift between Sarge's episode one voice and quickly shifts to the more known Sarge voice in either episode two or three. The only problem I really had with the voice overs is that at times it peaks (makes static) too much. This especially happens whenever someone is yelling. This is probably due more to the fact that they didn't exactly have top notch equipment at their fingertips for this first run. Eventually as the seasons continue the quality gets way better, so if you were greatly troubled by this, it's really only on "Volume 1". I've actually been wondering if it would be a good idea for them to go back and essentially re-dub "Volume 1" with the higher quality equipment and currently used voice tones. Might be a good idea...
Basically this show revolves around very random circumstances and the characters dealing with that generates all the humor. Such as the blue side receives a tank no one is certified to drive. They make general crack jokes related specifically to Halo that the fans will surely get and recognize. Honestly I can't recommend this DVD enough. It's by far one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The only black mark, as I said, is the production quality on the voice over production. If you're a fan of Halo and find nuances in multiplayer scenarios a riot, then this is definitely for you!
Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5
WOW
This has got to be the funniest thing ive seen since we made our own videos here in iraq...most people wouldnt get those anyway they are inside jokes. But wow....i couldnt believe after the few online episodes i saw that they were selling the DVD for as much as they are but for the simple factor i have never laughed for an hour straight in my life ill pay 25 bucks...great buy for halo lovers improv comedy lover and just random laughs all around.
Bought for teen daughter.
Teenage angst meets video games. I thought it was repetitive, but my teens love it. Cartoon violence, absurdity, and Sartre on a DVD. I'm an old dork, so it doesn't appeal to me.
Beginning of a legend
Making something of nothing, that's what this is about. Not many people think to take a video game they love to okay, write a script and play it all out well enough to make it actually viewable. Brilliant, boys!
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