Love Society

By: Oliver Higgins

Ever since the dawn of time, there have been battles to settle something. In the beginning of the human’s era there was tribal battles, to settle who gets land, who controls the land and who would in fact control the world. That was the extent of the battles, people dying and people losing out on things, even though there was really nothing to live for.

But now, in more modern times, we have battles that can be seen as pointless compared to more pressing matters, reminiscent of the fight for the Premiership or the tussle to win the Formula 1 Championship. Each year the same tournament starts over and all the kafuffle starts up near the end when it gets exciting to see who wins. The thing is that it is all to do with money, to cause controversy through possible cheating or to plainly be the best in that competition.

It has lost its pride too, just playing for money. And nobody thinks about how not just Formula 1 cars, but also any motor sport vehicle is doing to our environment. People are always complaining about our environment, how if we stop driving 4 x 4’s and drive world friendly hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius the Earth will be a better place, nobody realises motor sport events are happening every week. 22 cars and trucks on a track, so many laps to complete, so many races to finish and so much fuel per vehicle. The amount of toxic gases given off and put into the O Zone layer must be huge! And people worry about the school run in a Land Rover…

That is a battle to save the world - for some people anyway. Which is different to people battling for freedom, in third world countries in Africa. Every day is hell for them. Every day they must fall asleep with nothing to look forward to, but the same hunger, thirst and fear the citizens of the poor community go through each daylight hour for the rest of their lives. The fight for survival is already over for newborn africans.

There is one FINAL battle that in a gaming culture will be settled soon. Very soon. That is one of colossal scale in the gaming world; the arrival of the next-generation of consoles.

I support fully, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, just because what Sony’s PlayStation is famous for is Japanese, role-playing games like Final Fantasy and Zelda, or just anything with a bit of Manga. And the Xbox is famous for its line up of top-notch titles backed up with superb graphics. Yet people consider Xbox as the under-dog, because when it was released it had nothing to fall back on, like the PS2 had its predecessor, the PS1.

Xbox’s flagship series was the Halo games; because of it’s intriguing and immersing storyline with everything unfolding after each level, the characters in it all have their own problems to deal with, the inclusion of revolutionary traits like duel-wielding, a double story with you playing both the saviour and villain, and the Flood. The Flood may just appear like an enemy like any other but what The Flood does well is give the player a sense of threat, anger and the feeling you are the saviour that will destroy them along with saving the world.

Its such a feeling you do not comprehend in other games. It’s a game that will battle on and on. Straight on to the Xbox 360, in fact. The console that will come out on top must be settled sooner rather than later.

That is why; Microsoft will have won the battle as soon as Halo 3 hits the Xbox 360’s shores, in the March 2007. The year the battle is over, and of course won by the under-dog Microsoft.

To conclude, to many people battles are there to keep face. If you believe in something, someone will always believe the opposite. It’s the way of the world, but without the battles, some consider being minor compared to poverty in countries, there wouldn’t be any things that are better than another. Every company tries to beat the other company to be the best. Without these battles, the world would be very tedious and equal.

Who wants that?

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Oliver Higgins - Top student in 2nd set English

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