Lightning Strikes
March 11, 05:03 PM
Every time a new game releases with a leading lady, it sort of makes me squeal inside. So perhaps you can understand my unbounded glee with Final Fantasy XIII. And this isn’t purely based on the main character’s gender, though that has something to do with it. First off, for those of you who have never played Final Fantasy, this is a nice place to start. Since the stories are non-linear, there is no need to worry about the previous twelve installments. I can sum them up as “you’re good, defeat evil, save the world”. The battle system is easy to learn, exploration areas are pretty straightforward and the story seems to move along smoothly. Thus far anyway, there’s only so much you can do in two days, especially while chasing around the kiddo. Lightning as a protagonist is everything you’d expect from a JRPG – conflicted, strong, and determined. But she’s something very similar to the sort of leader we found in another major release this year – Mass Effect 2. When choosing to play as a female Shepard, players were granted a woman with focus on a survival beyond her own. As Lightning sets forth with a soldier’s efficiency, she sees no possible deviation from fulfilling her goal. But what makes her separate from every other badass female on the scene? Because besides all that bravado and sword fighting, there is a human element – something that occasionally …
March 11, 05:03 PM
Every time a new game releases with a leading lady, it sort of makes me squeal inside. So perhaps you can understand my unbounded glee with Final Fantasy XIII. And this isn’t purely based on the main character’s gender, though that has something to do with it. First off, for those of you who have never played Final Fantasy, this is a nice place to start. Since the stories are non-linear, there is no need to worry about the previous twelve installments. I can sum them up as “you’re good, defeat evil, save the world”. The battle system is easy to learn, exploration areas are pretty straightforward and the story seems to move along smoothly. Thus far anyway, there’s only so much you can do in two days, especially while chasing around the kiddo. Lightning as a protagonist is everything you’d expect from a JRPG – conflicted, strong, and determined. But she’s something very similar to the sort of leader we found in another major release this year – Mass Effect 2. When choosing to play as a female Shepard, players were granted a woman with focus on a survival beyond her own. As Lightning sets forth with a soldier’s efficiency, she sees no possible deviation from fulfilling her goal. But what makes her separate from every other badass female on the scene? Because besides all that bravado and sword fighting, there is a human element – something that occasionally …
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XBOX LIVE GAMERTAG: PH0ENiX FD
GAMES I'M PLAYING
* Halo 3
* Rainbow Six Vegas 2
* Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
* Soul Caliber IV
* Battlefield: Bad Company
* Grand Theft Auto IV
* Rock Band 2
HEIGHT: 5'4 3/4"
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Strawberry Blonde
HOMETOWN: Boston, Massachusetts
FAVORITE GENRES: FPS, FPS, and did I mention FPS…plus Fighters, Racing, and Fantasy
FAVORITE GAMES: Rainbow Six Series, Halo Series, Call of Duty Series, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Unreal Champions
FAVORITE SNACK: Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Syrup and Whip Cream…YUM!
FAVORITE CHARACTER: Niko Bellic from GTA IV
FAVORITE QUOTE: It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to d
FAVORITE MUSIC: Disturbed, Slip Knot, Mushroomhead, Tomahawk, Rammstein, Avenged Sevenfold
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Entourage, Dexter, Sex and the City, True Blood, Californication, Spongebob
FAVORITE BOOKS: Harry Potter Series, Lord of the Rings Series, The Poet
FAVORITE COLOR: Blue
FIRST GAME ADDICTION: Load Runner
FIRST CONSOLE: Nintendo Entertainment System
GREATEST MOMENT: I was the last one alive and I killed everyone on the other team in Search and Destroy (did I mentio
LONGEST SPREE: 36hrs straight on Rainbow Six Black Arrow, and almost 40hrs straight on COD 4
OBSESSIONS: XBL, Video Games, Nintendo DS, Shopping for electronics and video game accessories, playing with my
I HATE: Arrogant little boys on XBL
I LOOK LIKE: the last thing you see before you die! MuaHaHaHa
GAMES I'M PLAYING
* Halo 3
* Rainbow Six Vegas 2
* Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
* Soul Caliber IV
* Battlefield: Bad Company
* Grand Theft Auto IV
* Rock Band 2
HEIGHT: 5'4 3/4"
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Strawberry Blonde
HOMETOWN: Boston, Massachusetts
FAVORITE GENRES: FPS, FPS, and did I mention FPS…plus Fighters, Racing, and Fantasy
FAVORITE GAMES: Rainbow Six Series, Halo Series, Call of Duty Series, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Unreal Champions
FAVORITE SNACK: Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Syrup and Whip Cream…YUM!
FAVORITE CHARACTER: Niko Bellic from GTA IV
FAVORITE QUOTE: It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to d
FAVORITE MUSIC: Disturbed, Slip Knot, Mushroomhead, Tomahawk, Rammstein, Avenged Sevenfold
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Entourage, Dexter, Sex and the City, True Blood, Californication, Spongebob
FAVORITE BOOKS: Harry Potter Series, Lord of the Rings Series, The Poet
FAVORITE COLOR: Blue
FIRST GAME ADDICTION: Load Runner
FIRST CONSOLE: Nintendo Entertainment System
GREATEST MOMENT: I was the last one alive and I killed everyone on the other team in Search and Destroy (did I mentio
LONGEST SPREE: 36hrs straight on Rainbow Six Black Arrow, and almost 40hrs straight on COD 4
OBSESSIONS: XBL, Video Games, Nintendo DS, Shopping for electronics and video game accessories, playing with my
I HATE: Arrogant little boys on XBL
I LOOK LIKE: the last thing you see before you die! MuaHaHaHa
Faith Harrison, also known as Phoenix from the all-girl gaming team the Frag Dolls, is a competitive gamer hired by Ubisoft. Faith is originally from Boston, Massachusetts and now lives in Katy, Texas with her husband and four year old son.
Faith started gaming at a young age and has always been competitive. Her father introduced her to Load Runner on the original Apple computer, and then she quickly branched out into games such as Doom and Myst. When Halo hit the streets, her focus turned to FPS and console gaming. Her gaming passion was taken to a new level with the introduction of Xbox Live where she spent hours on end in clan matches, playing with friends, and competing professionally through MLG and Cevo.
The impact of Xbox Live on Faith’s life goes beyond her gaming career. She met her husband while playing online, and now they play games as a family with their son Tyler. Her original gaming focus was FPS, but now she spend thirty minutes per day on quality family game time teaching her son to be a mini beast in games such as Super Mario, TMNT, Mario Cart, Petz, and Indiana Jones Legos.
Faith has been a competitive gamer for the past six years. She started competing in local LAN tournaments, on Teamcompete.com and Gamebattles.com, then in tournaments through Cevo.com, finally joining the MLG Pro Circuit in 2007 and 2008.
Currently in the process of completing her degree in BS in Computer Science, Faith is a Computer technician at a local computer company in Houston, TX when not doing Frag Doll duties.
Faith’s passions in life are her family, and gaming!
