Call of Duty 4 vs Halo 3 (Single Player)

I did the multiplayer portion a couple days ago, and now it is time for the single player.  These two games have very different single player games.  The storyline of both games is different, yet the same.  Both is about soldiers fighting for their country, but both are on very different scales.

Halo 3 is about the galactic battle between two (or three?) alien civilizations across the universe.  You are playing as supernormal Master Chief whose duty is to reverse the inevitable.  Occasionally, you feel the grandeur of the situation your placed in, but it’s usually just shoot here, move on, shoot here, move on.  The storytelling is very bad to normal players; if you aren’t a hardcore fan, you probably don’t know what’s going on.  That, mixed with an already convoluted and complex story makes this impossible to understand from a casual perspective.

Call of Duty, on the other hand, has a fairly simple storyline.  You are placed as the role Sergeant Soap MacTavish and Sergeant Paul Jackson.  These two are members of different forces who end up having the same goal.  They are after a group of terrorists, which seems pretty bland.  But there are huge twists in the game, including a nuclear bomb that explodes with you in the vicinity, that make this game gripping and heart wrenching.  It is much shorter than Halo 3’s single player, but it is much more action packed, and faster paced.  It will continuously keep you on the edge of your seat and the action will never let up.

All in all, Call of Duty 4 has a better single player campaign.  Halo 3’s just seems too similar to the previous two games and did very little in innovate and change things up.  CoD4, on the other hand, is one of the only games with a very gut wrenching storyline mixed in with great gameplay.  Before Halo 4 comes out (if it comes out), Bungie should definitely look at what other games like Call of Duty 4 did to change things up.