Advent Rising! My play-by-play review! (#1)

Hello and welcome to my Play-By-Play review of Advent Rising! what is as "Play-By-Play" review you ask? well it means after every time i have some fun as Captain Gideon Wyeth of Advent Rising i'll sit myself down and blog aout it. so this is only my first instalment. so far i've only played the beggining and the seen the storyline pretty well set up. let me give you an overview of this game at first glance. it's story was written by Osron Scott Card, an awesome Sci-Fi writer who gave us such great books as "Ender's Game" and "Ender's Shadow" and so the story should be absolutely amazing. and as a bonus it's been planned from the beggining as a trilogy. the website by the way is www.adventtrilogy.com so since it's a trilogy we can expect 2 more Orson S. Card written games in the future. now what makes thus game special besides the story? well it has a unique method of gameplay that makes it play like a first person shooter, like Halo, only in third person. which in my opinion makes things easier. and at times more fun. so not only does this game have a fun unique story by a cool author but it also is unique as a gaming experience. now looking at it as a christian parent or just a christian trying to see if this game is for you we must remember this game is rated T for teen. which mean 13+ for some content that may be offensive to younger people. what gives Advent Rising it's T rating is (according to the ESRB ratings council) "Blood, Mild Language, Violence" so far i have encoutered 2. blood yes, when you get shot at you bleed. not graphically or in a gross way. just a little blood flys when you get shot. and alien corpses lie in pools of purple blood. and of course if there's blood there's violence. gun violence mainly. but so far there has been no offensive language, mild or otherwise.

so anyway here is what i've done so far. game starts out flying through space you are ace pilot Gideon Wyeth, you fly over a huge alien ship to land on a earthling space station and meet up with your big brother. typical big brother picks on you but you two obviously care about each other. more characters are slowly introduced and you learn more about your world. your brother, Ethan, is a famous war hero and kind of cocky and puffed up about his greatness. which gets him in fights with marine grunts and all sorts of lowly military people who are jealous and just sick of mister bigshot. so as your training progresses you have a fun little brush up where a marine holds a gun to your brother's head and you save his life. and somewhere in here you meet your fiancee Olivia (the chick in the picture) who works as a physicist on the space station. then life gets interesting. an alien race, known as the Aurelians, have come to visit. they are peaceful but when they came they were followed by a not so peaceful race known simply as the seekers. it's not completely clear why the Aurelians sought out the human race and reveres us so highly, almost treating us as Gods. and it's not clear why the seekers seek us out and wipe us out where ever they find us. methinks more on that further in the story. but anyway from here on the after a peaceful meeting with the Aurelians the space station is attacked and you must escape from it with your darling Olivia as well as your brother Ethan. unfortunately only Olivia makes it and you get to watch Ethan killed right in front of you (we don't see that, we see Gideon's (our player's) reaction). so then you jump in an escape pod with your beauty and hightail it to earth.

and we'll see what happens next in my next installment. so far i love this game. keep reading for more!