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Halo 3 was a more advanced searching system.

It takes in mind, Level, Connection, Location, Skill, Language, etc.

COD4 just finds the fastest game.

Halo is basically a copy of other sci fi games. It came out at the right time to xbox console players while the original games like quake were only really played on PC.
There is been a few times while I was playing a game and I noticed that halo had the same feature. There is a zombie mod on Counter-strike source that players made. When Halo 3 was released I hear a "brand new" game mode for online that sounds basically like zombie mod.
It's like Call of Duty 4. Not very ground breaking but did very good.

I agree with pretty much all.

But you are a pretty big PC fanboi lol.

all games are a copy of something, you cant base that as an arguement.

yeh once upon a time everything was new but most things have been done to some extent somewhere else now, its extremly hard to be original in every game.

Eventhough Wong makes sense,

This Mike guy in the quote is bullshitting every line. And he never played halo online either.

o_O to that I say WTF I think u got it a bit backwards lol

thats what my friends say to me too

but I didn't like multiplayer because it took forever to kill someone with an assault rifle, and everyone used the pistol (that has a scope) to frag each other, and all over the map you had snipers bunny hopping trying to shoot each other, it was so annoying

Halo 3 single player on heroic. I just ducktaped my walk forward stick, and bashed the B buttong (hitting targets with ur weapon) and i completed it without deaths.

Halo 3 Was Phail!! Got it!!

Lets Compare Call of Duty 4 Compared to halo 3

Halo 3 is a very average FPS its just run along kill all the bad guys and the occasional drive though. although it didnt look that much different from the previous installments this game alot more cheeseyness it the final part of the story which i really didnt like. story also kept switching to Scary horror Sci-Fi to AMERICA **** YEA!!! **** OFF YOU COVENANT BASTERDS!!!!!! which musta made it dead hard to classify. they put a +16 label pegi on it although that didnt stop the 12 year olds online shouting in ear hole saying I ..... PWN BISNICTHES!!! which is why i really hated xbox live....

Call of Duty 4 being a completey different theme to halo was set in todays world. ofc most of the levels are still your average FPS but the thing i liked about it is went you went to visit your squad leaders past and be a sniper ready to assassinate this target. to me sneaking around some gaurds and tanks was extremely fun more fun then i had in any halo 3 tbh

as someone mentioned early CoD4 has a better grasp on physics allowing a bullet to go though a sheet of paper which a plasma blast in halo 3 cant for some reason which is also a good thing for CoD 4


Then Comes the mutiplayer.

CoD4 has Deathmatch Team Deathmatch , Search and Destroy , Domination , and its hardcore versions

Halo 3 However is 1 complete mind fuckery. with about 50 different game mods and cant just stick to one.

Finding a match. i want to find a match in 20 seconds NOT 10 MINUTES so CoD4 wins this. theres also the habit halo 3 has it gets all the players setups the match AND STARTS AGAIN from step 1 ¬¬

Gameplay wise there in a bit of a stalemate tbh

Maps Well Designed for there genre of games.

Guns.
now each game has its top weapons, CoD4 being the Barret 50 Cal Sniper and halo 3 being the spartan laser. there both pretty much 1 shot kills and pretty overpowered but hey who wants balance it pretty much sucks when your rocket launcher does the same damage as a pistol

Style

Now CoD4 has gone for the more proffesional gamers approch offering more skill to put into the gun then rather the gun being powerful it self its more of a CSS Approch to gaming which tbh made it very popular on the PC.

Halo 3 comes to the more unrealistic approch where whoever gets the most powerful gun or tank is going to dominate the map and win the game for there team. this weapon being pretty much the energy sword or spartan laser.

Community ...

CoD 4 Wins no explination needed..................
You know what i mean...

To be honest in the single player Halo 3 does have some good points like some of the driving situations or the taking down of the scarabs but CoD 4 pretty much wins the single player route with it mixiing up and switching bewteen the americans and the British SAS (Which i think the SAS Pretty much win for not getting owned by a nucklear explosion)

Call of Duty 4 is the better game. anybody who says halo 3 is better then any other game is just a fan boy and has not played any recent PC Games such as

half life 1 , 2 , Ep 1 & 2
Crysis
Counter Strike Source And 1.6

And tbh nearly every FPS is trying to be like Halo becasue it was so succesful YOU WILL NEVER REPLICATE THE SUCCESS OF HALO , YES IM LOOKING AT YOU HAZE!!!!!

If the only reason, cod4 is better, is that halo3 has too many online modes, and halo3 doesn't allow you to switch between americans and brits.

That's just fanboyism to.

Truth be told (like everybody else has said) Halo 3 wasn't that great of a game. It was rushed, dumbed down so anybody could pick up a controller and start going +20 in any type of game and most of the problems with Halo 3 could be fixed so easily, but Bungie just decides to ignore its community and do what they want. Halo 1 was way better than Halo 2/3. Any game that started off with being competitive needs to end with being competitive.

It's not over yet. Bungie recently hinted at Halo 4.

cod4 is better end of

but dont get me wrong i enjoy playing both on my xbox but i would lower my computer to play any halo even though direct x 10 only for halo 2 WTF seriously it dont need that crysis is more powerful ten fold and can run on direct x 9.0c

Is it really fair to compare Halo 3 vs cod4? I say wait till Halo 4 comes out *is it comming out?* and then argue about which ones better

Tasdik is right.

Also Fable 2 will shit on them both, October 31st FTMFW!

Halo 2 vista is direct x 9. Its limited to vista because microsoft thought vista would sell more, not because its direct x 10. Its a crappy port though.

I've played Halo 1 and 2. Both are nothing special.

hpc>any cod

Halo seems awfully similar to starcraft.

Flood = Zerg Humans
Humans = Terran
Covenant = Protoss
Halo = Xel'Naga Temple
Gravemind = Overmind

omg lol

Halo 3 caters more to it's fan base of noobs.
The maps are designed where one can simply throw two grenades down the horribly confined hallways and easily get a kill or two after spraying with their Assault Rifle.

Competitive Halo 3 is a different story. That is where Halo 3 shines.
MLG starts people with a Battle Rifle, makes everyone slightly faster, and weapons do a tiny bit more damage. This makes it so that gameplay relies heavily on teamwork.

In competitive Halo 2, one person could take out an entire team with just a Battle Rifle and grenades.
In Halo 3, that's a near impossible feat. The BR shoots incredibly slower than it's predecessor and with Bungie's genius Bullet Spread formula, you will constantly miss shots. Factor in that the Battle Rifle, and most other guns, drop bullets, and you have a huge fail.

That is why Halo 3 relies on teamwork more.

For Call of Duty 4, you have perks. The customization of classes means that the possibilities of what you'll find around the corner are vast. Call of Duty has a way smaller health range compared to Halo, meaning that you need to pick your movements carefully and make sure you have cover.

If you play Hardcore, well, this applies even more.

Bottom line is...
CoD4 > Halo 3.

Let's compare:

Maps - Halo's are designed for most noobs to grab an easy kill with their AR. And most Halo maps are way overtextured. CoD's are intricately designed, but not to the point that it really effects gameplay. I enjoy hiding in a patch of grass while sniping. I give maps to Call of Duty.

Gameplay - Halo 3 is very slow paced compared to Halo 2, or even Call of Duty. Call of Duty gets this one too.

Community - Pfft. A bunch of 10 year olds screaming obscenities into their mics on Halo? No thanks. To be fair, you do have the 55 Gold Crosses on CoD that like to wave around their ePeen. I'm going to go with Call of Duty again.

Weapons - In Halo, pretty much all weapons fail compared to the Battle Rifle. Battle Rifle is the all around weapon of choice for anyone intent on winning. But even the BR is incredibly inconsistent to the point where you can't rely on it a good majority of the time. Call of Duty, weapons rely on what perks you have, so you choose how effective you are. Call of Duty wins this too.

Single Player - Call of Duty's campaign was epic. I call for a CoD4 movie nao! CoD wins hands down.

There you have it folks. Call of Duty takes a clean sweep of the board over Halo 3.

if your looking for hardcore teamwork, play battlefield 2 with Project Reality mod. You can't drive a tank without 2 other people helping you, now that is teamwork

why on earth would you have an out dated direct x version if you have vista that can run dx 10?

and yeh i was wrong was a while since i looked at it, vista only is what i shuld have said either way its not needed

Spoken like a true noob who gets owned every time he joins a game lol.

i agree with him and im sum what quite good at both games

i'll slaughter you at halo

I would bet my life savings on that too.

I Farking hate playing on the xbox.
It's like learning how to walk all over again if you're used to computers.

Some players really pick it up very quickly and can aim good with the controllers but for me it's just Farking terrible.

When I was playing Halo2 with my friends and they would go get the rocketlauncher or whatever and then I was aiming at it and they were like: "Wouter, is that you bottom screen?"
Me: "Yes"
Him: "Good, then I won't be killed"

And the sad thing is that it's true I shot so many times the sniper is like a machinegun after all but even if I hit them I could never get the second hit

Lol? No. Matchmaking, aside from the MLG playlist, is garbage. You have the incredibly weak Assault Rifle starts on horrible maps.

So if I'm bad at Match Making, aside from MLG, then I'm fine with that. You'll never win money in a serious competition with AR starts. Battle Rifle and MLG is where it's at.

If you disagree, then you're the noob, sir.

I agree that all major competitions have a rule set which starts with the BR.

But, AR incredible weak? Doubtful.

In competitive play I mean.

I play it somewhat competitively, and you will hardly ever see someone with an AR.
Everyone realizes that it sucks.

Dual wielding SMGs is more effective, and they sound cooler.