Halo vs. Call of Duty

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Halo vs. Call of Duty Video games are quickly becoming people of many generations favorite past time. Ever since the first video game was created in 1958 by physicist William Higinbotham, video games’ demand have been on the rise. Two of the biggest game franchises to date are the Halo and Call of Duty sagas. They both are based on a warfare backbone, but took two completely different routes in type of warfare, targeted audience, and storyline. With these things in mind, Halo is a better overall gaming franchise than Call of Duty. Halo is a futuristic warfare gaming franchise created by the gaming company Bungie. Bungie was established in 1991 by Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. They have created games in many formats, but their obvious favorite type of game is the first-person shooter category. This category is by far one of the most popular genres, so it has a large market. Although first-person shooters are their main forte, Halo was originally created in a third-person shooter format. Over time, the Halo games they created have transformed into a combination of both first-person and third-person shooters. Unlike Halo, Call of Duty is a more modern type of warfare gaming franchise. Their games are based more in past and present times, rather than that of Halo which is in the future. The Call of Duty franchise is published and owned by Activision, but its form of development is very peculiar because it has two different companies that create their games at different times. These developers are Infinity Ward and Treyarch. Infinity Ward created its Modern Warfare series, which is based more on present-day warfare and has newer guns and weapons of many types including grenades, rocket launchers, and technology in general. Treyarch created the Black Ops series, which is based more in the early 1900’s to the Cold War era. Black Ops has low tech equipment, but still
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