Brothers Till The End

People that take a first glance at me and make some guesses at to what my favorite passtime is. Almost never they will guess that I am a xbox addict. My new game addiction is Gear of War 3. My husband, Alex, and I are playing through the co-op campain. He, of course, is ALWAYS the first player; that means that he plays as Marcus Fenix. Player two is yours truely, and I play as Dominic Santiago. In the Gears of War 3, the campain is seperated into 5 acts, each act has 5 chapters. We are in the last chapter of act 3, and we know that something bad is going to happen. We are back in Dom’s newly deceased wife’s hometown. Dom is seriously going through a emotional break down when he visits his wife’s family grave and begings praying to her. Near the end of the chapter, we are surrounded by locust and lambient a bomb goes off and separates Dom from the rest of the Delta Force Team. Let me just tell you all nonvideogamers, video games are an art form that needs to be recognized more. There was one clear solution to end the act, going out with a bigger bang. Dom sees a locust vehicle, jumps in, tells his teamates to jump and good luck, then puts his foot to the gas. Boom. I look over to my husband, we were both speechless and could not just believe that Gears lost Dominic Santiago. Alex put his head in his hands, silently grieving, I said that I was done for the night. Now all of you that are reading this and thinking, “this lady is nuts” or “it’s just a silly video game,” I will grant you amnesty just this once. Video games are like movies, they are made for entertainment and to make people feel something for someone else on the big screen in a sitation that does or does not obtain to reality. The difference is, video games are made to put ordinary people into those situations by adding a controller. We are able to jump right into that screen and play as that person. I personally, feel acomplished when I finish a game. When you play a video game you become that character, I was Dominic Santiago, and Alex was Marcus Fenix, and we had just lost our friend. MY husband has been playing xbox for a longer time than me (I blame him for my addiction) he had been playing this game for 8 years now. We both knew that it was a mistake to play through a chapter titled, “Brothers to the End.”