Red Vs. Blue X is a gigantic box set
containing the first ten seasons of the video game based show Red Vs.
Blue. The first five seasons cover The Blood Gulch Saga which is
about two groups of soldiers, one red, one blue whom are out to
capture each others flag but the downside to all this is they are all
a bunch of idiots. The members of the blue team are: Church (the
leader), Tucker (the horny loser who wants the sniper rifle), and
Caboose (king of the idiots). On the red team we have: Sarge (the
leader and always goes on tangents about old war stories), Simmons
(the know-it-all ass kisser), Grif (the lazy orange one), and Lopez
(the Spanish speaking robot). Right from the start we get a classic
scene of Simmons and Grif asking “why are we here?” while the
blue team are in the cliffs spying on them. Sarge calls over Simmons
and Grif with excitement and reveals that they have a new vehicle (a
warthog). The red team also gets a new recruit (named Doughnut) and
as a joke they send him to the blue base to pick up some supplys but
really want to see him get shot at. Doughnut makes it over to the
blue base with ease as the blue team is bickering with each-other and
takes their flag as a fluke. The blues get embarrassed by all this
and start firing at Doughnut but lucky for him the reds take
advantage and start attacking the blues right back. Caboose finds
this to be the perfect time to use the tank that the blues have but
he ends up getting it stuck on auto-pilot and ends up killing Church
(oh dear). Funny enough Church comes back as a ghost and continues
to boss around the other blues. Church and Tucker get desperate
trying to get their flag back and call for backup and end up getting
a freelancer with a dark secret named Tex. Tex goes out to retrieve
the blues flag but ends up getting captured and we then find out that
Tex is Church's ex-girlfriend and they go rescue her. They rescue
her and get back their flag but that's only the tip of the iceberg.
The adventures of our loveable nincompoops just keeps on getting
bigger with battling other freelancer, meeting aliens, and time
traveling. (Click "Read More" for rest of review).
Seasons six to eight cover the
Re-collection Saga which is about a freelancer named Washington and
his job is to recover A.I. From other freelancers before enemies get
a hold of the technology. Washington then goes to the blue team for
help but is completely unaware that what he is about to get himself
into. This is when the show takes a very turn of events when Church
finds out something huge about himself that changes everything you
knew about him. The ninth and tenth seasons cover the
Project Freelancer Saga and it picks up right from the end of season
eight with Church trapped in a storage bank searching for Tex. These
seasons also show the origin of the freelancers themselves which were
absolutely awesome to watch with intense action and great drama but
don't expect comedy from these segments.
The shows atmosphere changes from
season six onwards as it goes from a straight comedy/ parody (of
Halo) into a big grand epic action series with some comedy elements
mixed in. This change is not a bad thing at all as the comedy
element that drew us all in is still there although there isn't as
much but there is enough to satisfy. The action that is introduced
is done really well and will draw you deeper into the show making the
show a perfect blend of comedy and action.
The way that this show is filmed is
quite clever as it is done using a style known as machinima (using
video games to make movies) so it has a very organic feeling as most
of the stuff done was used with the video game itself. It also feels
like I'm watching something brand new and original that feels like
anything but Halo. There is a big change in the way the show is
animated from season 8 onwards as they add in new 3D animations that
you can't do in the game. This had me worried at first as I thought
the show was going to make the show feel very un-natural but they
only use this method when they have to use it rather then them just
using it just because they can.
One thing that disappointed me about
the original season one through five DVDs was that the video quality
on the older seasons looked just like the videos were straight from
the internet, it wasn't terrible but it just felt a bit awkward.
This edition has touched up the picture quality and it looks much
much better with less pixelation, full-screened, and sounds clearer
and if you want to see what the original DVD versions looked like you
can just go into the special features which are straight from those
sets and are untouched.
Damn there are a ton of special
features in this set. Stuff you will find in this set are, audio
commentary, deleted scenes, special episodes, making of and behind
the scenes footage, interviews, convention panels, table readings,
and bloopers and trying to watch all this takes about a day to watch
and by “a day” I quite literally mean it will take twenty-four
hours to get though it all. Even though this is marked as a fourteen
disc set some include a bonus fifteenth disc titled “Red Vs. Blue
Mini-adventures” adding another hour of entertainment to this
already colossal set of special features. Finally this set comes
with a little booklet with some notes and photos. Some complaints I
have are that the special pre-menu intros from the older versions are
missing from this release. My other complaint happens on disc 13
(Grifball Volume 2) and that is the audio is terribly out of sync
with the video making it very hard to watch. This is very
disappointing as I was very excited to see these episodes. Overall
this was a very tight collection but is best for fans of the show as
the price will stop anybody unfamiliar with the series from
purchasing it. All the seasons were released individually but this
is the only release where you can obtain all ten seasons on blu-ray
(minus season ten as you can buy that as a stand alone release on
blu-ray). I really enjoyed this set and I do recommend this set but
get some of the single release sets if you are curious about the show
before jumping into investing in a set of this price.
Title: Red Vs. Blue: RVBX Ten Years of
Red vs. Blue
Director: Burnie Burns, Gavin Free,
Matt Hullum
Genre: Comedy, Sci-fi, Machinima/Video
Game Movie
Running Time: 18 Hours 42 Minutes
Distributor: Hanabee
Rating: MA15+ (Violence, Strong coarse
language)
Price: $149.99
Recommended: Yes
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