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Stories aside, as there are things I like and dislike about both, and they're more subjective to people's taste and, frankly, biases.

The differences between gameplay, I think, boil down to one thing, at least on multiplayer in the standard game settings.

in Halo, you have shields, in CoD, you do not. This means that, in CoD, you generally die faster and often without warning. That is, unless you are able to see them first. Basically I feel that CoD is much more of a stealth/scout/flank game where Halo is more of a Movement/Reaction game. That is not to say that one does not share aspects of the other. A guy with a sniper rifle in either game against a guy slowly running across open terrain with no idea of the former's presence is going to own just as hard in either game. However, while maybe 1/4 times I will be surprised in CoD and still win, I would say that 5/8 times I'm jumped in Reach, I survive.

So here are the things I personally like about each game:

CoD:
-Customizeable weapons and classes that makes you feel, for lack of a better term, special.
- It has a very organic feel. When you die, your 1000 pound metal exo-suited frame doesn't go flying twenty feet through the air before bouncing, BOUNCING on a grassy field. When you die, your body goes limp, you collapse, and you proceed to bleed out at a prodigious rate

Halo:
-customizable armor, and colors. Again.. specialness. I also like how little it affects the game, and that you can watch your body explode in a screaming ball of confetti and joyful children
- Armor abilities: Jetpacking is really really cool.. armor lock is great, and the hologram is hilarious, if insanely difficult to use.
- lolz: Whether it's catching a thrown plasma grenade with a frag grenade that you've thrown, which then goes on to stick the guy who initially threw thw plasma grenade, or sniping someone, getting an inexplicable triple kill, which you then realize was caused by the bullet passing through your targets head, ricocheting off of walls and then passing through the heads of two other people you hadn't even seen previous to firing. For these reasons, halo is infinitely entertaining.

I am biased. I like Halo more. That doesn't mean that I dislike CoD.

CoD FTW!!!!!!!!!!!

Bah none of them are that good.

Storywise. Both crap get Bioshock for a real story.

Multiplayer: Not very impressive compared to say BC2.

I think both of these games are overated for what they are.

COD Black Ops bieng that it fixed the things the infinity screwed with up MW2 and made you pay for it.

And Halo Reach being the exact same game with little innovation or change.

But I know I will get many disagreements on this. It just annoys me that people like a game for its image not for what it really is.

wheres the option for "both pieces of overrated *********"

Please don't try and bypass the swearfilter, it's there for a reason. ta.

Halo is better than cod i prefer Bad Company 2 to cod as well

CoD is closing the gap. However, neither of these are my favorite shooters. The new CoD heavily favours spray and pray mentality or knife+ speed =win mentality. Both are rather lack luster and easy for anyone to do. Halo in all of it iterations feels to much like a console shooter, auto-aim, gimped controls, host advantage, etc. But thats what you get for being a console oriented game.

Halos multiplayer gameplay allowed actual team work. A single sniper in cod can ruin the entire teams day. You can actually hold a part of the map in halo, your tough, but not too tough. In cod a noob will just 360 noscope you from around a corner before any plan comes into action. In halo if you run into a room with 4 people, you've come to the end of the line. In cod theres nothing better, throw a nade and spray and get a 4 killstreak EASILY!

Jaon wrote:Halos multiplayer gameplay allowed actual team work. A single sniper in cod can ruin the entire teams day. You can actually hold a part of the map in halo, your tough, but not too tough. In cod a noob will just 360 noscope you from around a corner before any plan comes into action. In halo if you run into a room with 4 people, you've come to the end of the line. In cod theres nothing better, throw a nade and spray and get a 4 killstreak EASILY!

Exactly!

Yak9UT wrote:Multiplayer: Not very impressive compared to say BC2.

What, you'd rather exchange a fragfest for a campfest/spawncampfest?

As flawed as CoD is, usually at least you have to keep moving and don't die the instant you spawn unless there's a killstreak going on. Happens all the time in BFBC, with its flawed Squad system and spawning on squadmates lending itself to spawn camping far more than any CoD game.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/332472.page
slightly different question, but the majority of it's there. Halo or COD?

COD has better graphics and the ability to customise your weapons loadout and perks.
Halo has less "win at all costs" serious players, vehicles and the ability to change your armour and colours.
Halo is more for the "play for fun" gamers, while COD is more for the serious hardcore gamers.

Campaign:
Halo: 8/10.
decent storyline, variety of enemies (from grunts to hunters) and the use of vehicles, very fun all-round.
COD: 8/10.
moderate storyline, more "cinematic" and some special features not encountered online, fun but your character's ability to sprint through walls of buullets and survive direct hits with grenades and such lowers it a tad.

Zombies/living dead:
Halo: 6/10.
With "living dead", it's quite fun, but bungie should have made a little more effort towards getting the feeling of "zombies"- it's literally spartans with energy swords and evade and more speed fighting spartans with shotguns.
COD: 9/10.
lots of detail with the zombies and storyline, and your men "reviving" each other and such, it's really good, although I got bored with it after a month or so.

Online:
Halo: 8/10.
With fun players and vehicles, halo has more of the nicer players and less campers. There are a few occasional glitches, but the overall gameplay is decent.
COD: 8/10.
You can really only appreciate it once you're above level 30, as below that you get limited options as to wargear and such, and lots of campers and win-at-all-costs players.

this is being based on the two most recent games these two have made- halo: reach and COD: black ops. It really all goes back to the start of my post- If you're serious gamer, COD is more your cup of tea. Players who game for fun, halo is the way to go.

Strimen wrote: Halo in all of it iterations feels to much like a console shooter, auto-aim, gimped controls, host advantage, etc. But thats what you get for being a console oriented game.

This just makes me think you aren't very good at Halo. Reach has very little aim assist compared to say, Halo 2's aim assist.

I have to say, I like the controls for Halo quite a bit. Obviously they are not the same as mouse-kb, but on a console, they work very well. Host advantage in Reach isn't nearly as apparent as it was in say... GoW/GoW2.

Its hard to compare MW2/BFBC2 and Halo... I'd say that BFBC2 and MW2 are MUCH more similar than either of them are to Halo multiplayer. Halo and Gears are likely more similar than BFBC2/MW2, since even in Gears you kind of have a "shield" effect because you can take several hits before going down.

Like Lord PoPo said, BFBC2/MW2 are more about stealth/flanking/getting the drop, moreso than strafing/reaction/aiming game like Halo/GoW/Quake.

This is kind of like how dissimilar SC2 and DoW2 are. They are both RTSs, but they play VERY differently.

Melissia wrote:

Yak9UT wrote:Multiplayer: Not very impressive compared to say BC2.

What, you'd rather exchange a fragfest for a campfest/spawncampfest?

As flawed as CoD is, usually at least you have to keep moving and don't die the instant you spawn unless there's a killstreak going on. Happens all the time in BFBC, with its flawed Squad system and spawning on squadmates lending itself to spawn camping far more than any CoD game.

I agree thier can be a few sniper kill joys in BC2.

But that isnt going to ruin the intire game.

Besides alot of campers are useaully on the offence team in rush and in turn lose the match

The spawn camping has more to do with vehicles than snipers.

Melissia wrote:The spawn camping has more to do with vehicles than snipers.

You arent counting spawn camping on defensive team in Rush are you?

I don't have much problem with vehicle campers at spawn but I do go to servers that kick people who just camp at uncap in a vehicle or not.

Halo has always been the mediocre standard for FPS games. Watching paint dry is more original and fun than Halo.

I am not a fan of CoD either, but I would take that then Halo anyday.

BuFFo wrote:Halo has always been the mediocre standard for FPS games. Watching paint dry is more original and fun than Halo.

I am not a fan of CoD either, but I would take that then Halo anyday.

That's just like, your opinion, man.

Also, I disagree. Personally I think that Halo has more depth than any military shooter I've played (which is pretty much all of them).

Yak9UT wrote:

Melissia wrote:The spawn camping has more to do with vehicles than snipers.

You arent counting spawn camping on defensive team in Rush are you?

I don't have much problem with vehicle campers at spawn but I do go to servers that kick people who just camp at uncap in a vehicle or not.

I'm talking about all game modes. Circling around a spawn killing people with a transport chopper is very common.

On the subject of spawning and then getting killed by vehicles, yesterday me and my brother were playing invasion. A banshee was shooting a teammate, and tried to run him over. He jumps over it, me and my brother spawn on top of each other and we both get killed instead- we respawned right in front of it. -.-

And that is why I haven't put that game into my disk tray since my xbox red-ringed about a month before black ops. (Black Ops took its place, naturally )

Air vehicles are always a no-no in games, imho.

shrike wrote:On the subject of spawning and then getting killed by vehicles, yesterday me and my brother were playing invasion. A banshee was shooting a teammate, and tried to run him over. He jumps over it, me and my brother spawn on top of each other and we both get killed instead- we respawned right in front of it. -.-

Invasion is always crazy, and tbh that is just something that would make me laugh
That's what you get for spawning on your bro co-op style, I've definitely fallen to my death spawning on my teammate when they have been in a flying vehicle before.

When it happened I didn't understand...then I saw it in theatre mode and LOLed. In the same game my brother was halfway through the air man-cannoning and I respawned...d'oh...

shrike wrote:When it happened I didn't understand...then I saw it in theatre mode and LOLed. In the same game my brother was halfway through the air man-cannoning and I respawned...d'oh...

lolololololol
Nothing like that has happened to me yet



Oh! how Thy wish to laugh at my FAILS!

Yeah, I tried to save it onto my memory stick to put up on youtube, but my laptop won't accept it or something...dang...I really wanted to enter it into roosterteeth's "fails of the weak"...aw, man...

They're both just FPS...

By that reasoning, FFXIII and TES Morrowind are both simply RPGs too. Doesn't mean they're the same.

Phototoxin wrote:They're both just FPS...

Like saying DoW2 and SC2 are the same.

Shrike wrote:You can really only appreciate it once you're above level 30, as below that you get limited options as to wargear and such

With Black Ops i'm going to have to disagree. All Perks and equipment are open to any levels, you get the Ak74u, AUG, all the snipers, Stakeout, M16, MPK5 all before level 30.

Like saying DoW2 and SC2 are the same.

By that reasoning, FFXIII and TES Morrowind are both simply RPGs too. Doesn't mean they're the same.

FFXIII is a Jrpg so has a completely different system to TES. TES is a first person RPG with a different system.

In halo you run around and shoot things ad infinatum. Ditto for CoD. Both were overhyped and brought nothing new to their genres. Atleast TES was revolutionary for RPGs at the time.

Phototoxin wrote:FFXIII is a Jrpg so has a completely different system to TES.

They're both just RPGs.

Melissia wrote:

Phototoxin wrote:FFXIII is a Jrpg so has a completely different system to TES.

They're both just RPGs.

I hate to admit it, but Melissa has a point. Frequently you will see me spouting off about Demon's Souls and Final Fantasy XIII not being RPGs. I say this because this isn't what I want in a RPG, but no matter how much I say it, that is what they are. Heck I don't even consider FF XIII a JRPG, but it still is.

The thing is, saying CoD and Halo are "just FPS" is a major oversimplification. They function completely different. One is made for entertainment and the other is made for propaganda. I wonder how many panties will bung up with that statement...