THE HUB

OMG!!!

FEATURED GAME

FEATURED MEMBER

elementxstyle

elementxstyle

GP Design shop.

QUICK POLL

Who had the best E3 press conference?

ASK THE PROS

THE GAMEPROS

FREE NEWSLETTERS

Sign up now to receive weekly or daily updates on your favorite games, stories, and more!



Xbox 360 | Action | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Boxart for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 52 screen shots
  • GRAPHICS: 5.00
  • SOUND: 5.00
  • CONTROL: 5.00
  • FUN FACTOR 5.00
  • AVG USER SCORE 4.6
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 4.9
Winner of the GamePro Editor's Choice Award

Feature: Call of Duty 4 vs. Halo 3 (Page 6 of 7)

Feature by Travis Moses | 11/08/2007 | 13:28:22 PM PST

Innovation

Call of Duty 4: Aside from the experience point system in multiplayer, which unlocks weapons, Perks, and new Challenges, CoD4 offers nothing too innovative apart from rock solid gameplay and extreme polish.

The team at Infinity Ward has got talent.

The team at Infinity Ward has got talent.

Halo 3: Halo 3 is one of the more ground-breaking games ever released, and its innovations are tied almost exclusively to its cutting-edge online community.

<3 Bungie

<3 Bungie

Beyond Halo 3's massive online battles lies something far more interesting: a full-featured toolset. Bungie has loaded Halo 3 with impressive tools, such as the ability to save a match and replay it from any angle, take screenshots, or build a new in-game power-up and upload it to all your buddies. Even more impressive is the new Forge mode, in which up to 16 players can simultaneously collaborate on editing a level; swapping out vehicles, changing weapon placements, removing or adding scenery, and other more radical changes. The ability to share and promote these creations, via Bungie's Favorites, is quite simply a masterstroke.

INNOVATION WINNER

Halo 3. Undeniably. File Share is truly the most important "next-generation" innovation in gaming.

Replayability

Call of Duty 4: With a prolific single-player campaign that you'll want to play over and over again, global leaderboards for Arcade mode and multiplayer, and mass amounts of unlockable content, CoD4 has nearly unlimited replayability.

Prestige Mode here I come.

Prestige Mode here I come.

Replayability was at the forefront of Infinity Ward's development process, which is something you'll notice immediately when you first hop online. The multiplayer experience can last indefinitely if players choose so. That's the magic of Prestige Mode, which allows players to start over from scratch to enjoy the magic of unlockable Perks, weapons, and equipment all over again.

Halo 3: The Halo 2 servers are still massively populated some three years after its release, and Halo 3 is sure to continue this trend. With four-player online cooperative play, an online multiplayer community that falls short only to World of Warcraft, and a custom map and game editor, Halo 3 is a remarkable step up from Halo 2.

Zombies!

Zombies!

 

REPLAYABILITY WINNER

Call of Duty 4. It's already evident that Halo 3 is losing a bit of steam online. Besides creating custom gametypes and level layouts, there's just not that much to do after unlocking all the armor permutations and capping out at the final rank.


Related Articles