First Person Shooter is there a difference
February 4, 2008 This week I went out and did something I said I would never do. I went out and bought Call of Duty 4. I didn’t want to buy it because I knew it would take time away from my halo playing. It has, however it also has reminded me that there is a difference in games no matter if they have the same genera. It has also replenished my need for playing halo, and possible my lack of effort the past few weeks.
Halo may be factitious however it benefits many. It improves your life skills as well as your learning. In concurrence with Lupine another Bolger on Helium, Halo provides you with team building, and communications skills. You learn to work with people of various languages and cultures. You even develop ways to communicate ideas with out spoken word and bridge language gaps. As noted by Lupine the critical thinking involved in Halo is immense. Your brain develops and grows as you play and you learn what’s good to do and what bad to do. In cases you evolve and learn to improvise also another good lesson to learn when life throws you curve balls. More over I contribute my success in life to halo to playing halo and even when the community hits zero it will never die in my heart.
Call of Duty also has various benefits. Unlike Halo it is pretty realistic. The animations of the people look as if you are staring a person in the eye. Along with the cool sites you find many challenges when playing. You need to use your hearing to detect other players moving around you and eyes need to be able to detect quick changes of motion, which uses hand eye coordination. Understanding strategies and formulating plans is the key to success. Like in Halo Team work is also key, if you have a team that operates individually instead of one working as a whole its not like you can drop four opponents at once like you can in halo. Call of Duty games also have many cultural aspects tide to the game along with historical content. Call of Duty’s one through three were based of world war one and two, and now Call Duty four was influenced by the Gulf war and the current war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Both First Person Shooter have much to offer and yet are vastly different. Call of Duty fours real time game play makes Halo seem like its lagging. Call of Duty four has a frame rate of over 60 frames a second where Halo’s is close to 30. Also in Halo you have more leeway with kills its much easer to be attacked and retaliate and win compared to Call of Duty four. In call of Duty four players quickly learn to have precession aim, and hide. Along with ambushing players to maximize the damage placed on them. In Halo once you teach you motion detector and the maps you can become a one-man tank. Another key factor is the button layout each game has different layouts, however you have the option to change them. The key of being good at a First Person Shooter is to learn how to be effective and win.
