Video Game High School

High School as I wish it was.
This was a great show about: you guessed it, video games in a high school. But it's more than that, rather a high school dedicated to training gamers. An fun story line with epic effects, VGHS is probably one of the best web series shows I've seen in a long time, and that's saying something. While at times the jokes are groan worthy, there is a wealth of video game humor just a click away. Don't go AFK on this one, watch it fellow gamers, watch it.

Derivative and fun. Better as a single movie than discrete episodes
Disclaimer: I was one of the supporters of the project ($30 - hey, I got my name in the credits and a signed DVD of the series). Freddie Wong and his people have even put the budget for the movie on his web site, something that was interesting as well.

I had pretty high hopes for the project, and was "slightly" disappointed as it unfolded with each episode released sequentially as I was watching the web based episodes as they came out. But, I was much more impressed with the finished product. As a stand-alone movie this is a fairly well done (VERY well done technically) teen flick. It has a lot of elements from 1980's teen movies (lovingly nostalgic) and is coupled with state of the art "off the shelf" cgi and special effects. Though violent, it's a bloodless violence since most of the action scenes take place in video game land.

Since you can watch full episodes of this series on the web (see: very popular video web site with the name that starts with the...

Video Game High School Rocks!
I was fiddling around on YouTube the other day when I came upon episode one of this series. It caught my attention, and, me being a huge gamer, I loved it. I proceeded to watch the entire season in one day, and it was amazing. The CGI looks great, and the characters are engaging. It has every important element of high school you can possibly imagine, while replacing sports teams with games such as a Call of Duty-like FPS, a Street Fighter-esque 2D fighter, a dance game inspired by Dance Dance Revolution, a drift racing game like Need for Speed, and even a rhythm game- with real guitars. And it's funny! A lot of it is kind of obscure if you're not a gamer, but it's entertaining nonetheless. The IRL segments are just as entertaining as the in-game ones, if not more so, and there's even a huge real-life fight scene in the latter half of the season. I think VGHS is a lot better when watched as a show rather than a movie. I think the plotline just lends itself more to that format. The...

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