3rd And Stuff

After a long journey over thousands of dead Covenant bodies, I have finally reached my goal of 30,000 campaign kills. Which in the end nested me a nice number 3 spot in the state of Illinois for kills. Plus it granted me 109th in the world. Pretty good if you ask me. My driver is still in 5th in the state, we need to work on that...
It was rather fun to get the amount of kills I wanted. Granted not as much as a few people I know(118,000+), but it was a small dent in what they have. Honestly, there isn't much I can say about reaching this goal. It was bound to happen sooner or later, it was just a matter of how long will it actually take. I am glad I got it before ODST came out though...now to work on those campaign/firefight kills. I'm going to have so much fun with that.

Anyways, lately I have been playing my original Xbox I got back in 2003, it has looked so lonely sitting there collecting dust while its newer cousin sat there getting used almost, if not everyday. So I actually started it up the other day(without the dust, I do clean it off on a regular basis) and played some other games other then Halo 1 or 2 on it. Don't get me wrong I love those games, especially when you can plug in another vacant controller and slay against yourself for endless fun...or is that just me? Either way it's still fun to do, you should try it sometime. I just wanted to play something different for a change. So I popped in Rainbow Six 3 and played it for a bit. That went rather well after I quit pushing the wrong button(which I should remember that the bumper buttons don't exist on an Xbox "S" controller) to reload and switch weapons....then I finally went through the training levels again. After that, I moved onto actually doing the first level, with two or three retires in there I finally completed it. I then proceed to try the second level, getting ambushed about 3 minutes in, I give up and move onto the original Splinter Cell.
I then managed to do something I didn't think I could possibly do, fail the training mission! Alright, that's fine I can re-do it I suppose. I get through it no problem the second time and go to the first or second level. I then manage to not grab a key code I needed and get stuck. So then I say okay, I'm done new game please. I then put in Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow and play it. I forgot how much I enjoyed that game, it is actually really awesome. By far one of the best Tom Clancy based games I have played. The main reason I bought the game was for the co-op feature it had, I played that all the time with my driver when we would get bored with Halo 2.
I also found my weapon of choice in the game if I don't have to go in all silent like, the M16A2. It's been a good choice to have in the kind of terrain the game is in. I remember when I first played it that I got to the last level, but couldn't get through it so I quit playing it. And as it seems right now, I can't get past the 5th or 6th level...oh joy.

I've also been playing a game called "America's Army: Rise of a Soldier." I guess it is supposed to take you through all the training and situations that real life soldiers go through on a daily basis. I must say, it's pretty impressive on a realistic scale for a game, but it is no where near anything close to portraying what they actually do. It's still just a game in my books.
Anyways, I was able to get through as a Rifleman and Support Gunner, but Grenadier and Sniper on the other hand. Qualifying for a sniper is actually rather annoying, I have go and do some sort of field test(They have a name for it, forgot what it was) and scout out these areas while avoiding enemy contact(that is still training mind you) and get to a certain point also in order to pass. I've gotten into it and have gotten spotted each time, it's rather annoying, but hey, the real snipers have to do that stuff also. I'm still playing it, so maybe I'll pass it and actually get to do that stuff in a real/fake game mission.

I have also been playing a football(American football, not the European version of it)game and umm...well it has gone okay. The one thing I don't like is how there is no simple season selection to play through one single year of a team of my choice, oh but no! You can't do that, you have to chose a Franchise and import your own created team in order to play it. Alright fine, I can deal with that just let me create my own team. 5 minutes later, I finally get to play my first preseason game. I manage to get into the Super Bowl and win it, skip the Pro Bowl and go into the off-season. Now, before I actually entered the franchise menu, it had me set all the options I wanted to. Since I really don't care who I sign in the NFL draft I set that so that the computer can take care of that. Oh, but then again, you have to do that(even though I set it so that I wouldn't have to...) plus your over budget and can't sign anymore players for the season. So if you would be watching one of those cartoons were the character would get mad they would have a little fireball over their head, that's me at this point.
Once I figure out that there is no way around that without getting rid of my entire team(which I'm needing more players for anyways, oh yeah, and we're still over budget...) I say forget it and quit the franchise. I go to quick game and play a couple games there.
I've been playing those games for the past week now...well excluding the football one for obvious reasons.

I'm assuming that you've seen and read up on most of the stuff for ODST. If not then head over here, unless you're avoiding reading that stuff until next month...then completely ignore this link and possibly the following paragraph or two. http://www.bungie.net/
The site updates they plan on doing for the release of ODST looks really, really sweet. I cannot wait for them to go live and look at all the cool stuff they have. The ViDoc is awesome too, it contains pretty much all the information we know currently about Firefight, just in delicious video form. The beginning scene is rather interesting also, I wish we could actually kill a Brute and Jackal that way.

Speaking of thing related to ODST, the ODST forum has gone to pot now. According to Halo.bungie.org, a French game store has released ODST to it's customers earlier, much earlier then the planned September 22nd released date. At least that's what I think it says...have a look for yourself here. Microsoft France has said that they will ban anyone caught playing ODST before the release date on Live. Which is a little harsh if you ask me, but I guess they don't want it spoiled for anyone.

Well that is it in this ramble-ish post. Hopefully it makes sense to you and are able to read it.
Until next time, keep on doing whatever it was you were doing.