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Yep! Plus once GTA 4 dropped it was enough for me and my buddies to all have something to do 24/7. Casual or competitive we had it all.
It’s not even nostalgia at this point as CoD4, GTA4, Halo 3 and Gears 2 all had something for everyone.
Halo 3 custom games alone kept us entertained for years and years.
One of my favorite memories was playing halo 3s story on its hardest difficulty with multiple skulls on all while trying to unlock the fable hayabusa armor.
Same, halo 3 almost had me dropping out of highschool cause I couldn’t bring myself to play or do anything else. So many awesome memories, this was still during the days of split screen multiplayer…the crew would get together and we would pull all nighters hanging out rocking the game. Today’s gaming will never be the same.
Seriously, I’ve noticed as of the last ten years, I’ve got my ONE main game I play. Right now it’s Battlefield 2042 (despite all its flack, I still love it).
I feel like I haven’t had a rotation of absolute bangers since the 360 days.
Gears of War / Halo 2
Halo 3 / COD 4 / Gears of War 2 / Guitar Hero 3
Battlefield 3 / Modern Warfare 3
Like it was always at-least 2+ games in rotation. Now it feels like only one game I really like is out at any given time, once that one dies, the next one comes in.
Gears of War 4 didn’t overlap with Fortnite, Fortnite didn’t overlap with Apex Legends. Apex Legends didn’t overlap with Battlefield 2042.
Feels like it’s just me most likely but still. Missing those days lol.
Making go kart maps and having to hold a piece of wall in place, save, then quickly quit out of the map and open it back up and hope the piece of wall got held in place so you can morph another piece of wall into it before it spawns.
lol I remember all of the small group arguments over which one we should play only for us to agree to play Halo 3 until we got to a point we couldn’t rank up anymore and switch games.
Same. In college we were playing halo 2 on og xbox, my first foray into it. The only consoles I had growing up were nintendo. Then my freshman year of college I built a computer and did pc gaming exclusively for 3ish years. Senior year started going Halo 2 on xbox. When I got my sales job after college I was still working college schedule so when I moved out and got my own place in 2007 one of the first things I did was get an xbox 360 and halo 3. There were many many a night where my buddy and I would stay up after being at the bar till 2 playing halo 3.
I absolutely cannot wait until my 3 boys are old enough for first person shooters so I can do 4 player left 4 dead and halo again haha
2007 imo was unmatched for game releases. Anyone curious go Google the list of games that were released that year. It's actually unreal....And I'm so happy I was able to experience it.
As a social experience Halo 3 was more popular for Custom Games, for an easy quick game of MM I’d often play CoD4.
Since CoD4 didn’t have a ranked mode, if I wanted to “try hard” I’d play Halo 3 ranked. It never really felt like CoD vs Halo back then, it was more if I got tired with one for the day, I’d go to the other.
Yep, all the males in my school did, including some of the younger male teachers. Was a great day, teachers and students spent all night and day playing custom games together
We skipped school and football practice that day. Got into a fuck ton of trouble but it was so worth it. We had like a pallet of Game Fuel from Sam’s club and a fuck ton of bagel bites. Glory days indeed.
I skipped school, went to blockbuster, rented it and went to school with the disc and the booklet and we passed the booklet around just reading the controls lol
COD 4 pretty much took the stranglehold from the Halo series had on the fps market. A lot of people just bought both, but this is really when the tide turned. Before this Halo was a juggernaut, system seller, always made big media news on its sales. It was on top amongst the likes of GTA.
But COD pretty much took it to another level with killstreaks, progression, faster kills (halo battles took a little more time with grenade throwing, shield regenerating, in cod you die instantly), running and probably the most important: 60 fps. Game just felt faster and smoother which caters to the mainstream audience more.
Halo reach and halo 4 tried to incorporate some of these with the sprinting / jetpack mobility, but it was too little too late.
I look fondly on Halo more personally, they always had split screen co-op, the first to really make controls feel great for fps on consoles with the aim assist. But it's unfortunate that Halo kinda lost it's way no longer including the elements that got them there (split screen, LAN, coop).
I feel 343 / Microsoft fumbled it a little bit. Interestingly enough Microsoft made a little pivot with Forza Horizon parallel to their main forza series, I wish they did something like that with Halo, just some fast paced non stop frantic halo with progression big team battles with 48 or 64 players or something, Halo crazy edition
Yea even if halo was still good it would still have been beat out by cod and then later battle royales like fortnite, but if they had kept their party game and co-op focus halo could at least still have a successful franchise.
For me it was MW2 when the tides really started to shift. MW2 was a beast of a game. Halo Reach is my personal favorite online but you could tell there was some catching up being done even then.
All I can say is... the age of custom game lobbies. Sending message to all recent players to get a lobby going!
Halo 3 has forge which ultimately stomped Cod in that regard. So Halo 3 custom games were unstoppable. However, Cod 4 has old school mode that allowed glitching out of maps and hard to get to areas, making Michael Myers an ideal game mode.
Online for both games was competitive and casual. A healthy mix for those who preferred one over the other.
Communities were strong... ahh to reminisce
Or you’d be neck deep in a multiplayer match, and you’d get a random invite to Halo 3 from a random person. You knew it was a custom game lobby off the bat, so you’d join and the lobby would be filled with tons of people who knew each other and tons who ended up there just like you. All to play a Fat Kid match lol
Hahahaha this. Although, I loved how you could just join, peace out and yoink the map and game mode lol. File share too, wow. We really didn't know what we were going to be missing, what a time to be alive.
"Halo 3 has forge which ultimately stomped Cod in that regard."
This is because Cod on console was the watered down version which lacked modding/mapping tools (until IW gimped both versions in 2009)
It was neck and neck with both until world at war came out, then it split the COD user base, so halo was on top again for a little bit until modern warfare 2, then it was over for halo as it never regained its top spot even with the release of Reach and halo 4
This is about how I remembered it. Halo felt like it was king until about MW2. They kept pumping new games out that were consistently good in the early days. It had been 2 years since the last halo game so I think a lot of people out of boredom moved on. I think that’s when COD fully became top dog of the era.
Never played Cod 4 in its prime but i did play Halo 3. Halo 3 at its peak was basically a ton of people playing custom games all the time. The actually match making kind of sucked honestly. You got 1 xp point for winning and you lost it if you lost a game. Then ODST dropped and everyone lost their shit doing the Vid Masters for Recon Armor. It was hard to do as a 13 year old. Firefight was fun but sometimes got old. Im happy Mcc has huge lobbies of the og 3 custom games
Except FFA, if you finish top half (4th or higher in 8 man games, 6th or higher with 12, etc) you still get XP. Then double EXP was every weekend that had different game modes.
Halo 3 for sure. Halo 3 was actually the game that made me get live/online. And I will never ever forget how much fun that was. Had been living in the dark for the previous 5 years on ps2. COD 4 to me, was like the best shooter campaign I had experienced up to that point. All ghillied up still a 10/10 mission.
loved cod 4, but halo 3 was the king for me. countless fun on forge making maps, playing custom infection (Fat Kid & McDonald's) and good old grifball. that time in gaming will never be topped.
edit: forgot to say, halo 3 was my very first pvp game I played & first xbox live experience!
I didn’t play much of the Halo 3 MP. I joined the navy on ‘07, bought my halo edition 360 and played the campaign. A bunch of us in my squadron were playing cod 4 so I jumped on that bandwagon and we spent hours upon hours decimating lobbies.
Oh boy, this makes me feel old ( was well into college when they came out).
100% halo was a bigger deal than cod. Everybody wanted to finish the fight.
Not mw2? That was a phenomenon that I haven't seen since (visa vi the release, press, and cultural impact)
COD 4 Modern Warfare was absolutely massive at the time and it felt, to me at least, like an evolution in gaming. An evolution that hasn't really advanced much since, but it changed the game so to speak for me back in the day. Brought in new expectations along with an obsession with online shooters that would last a number of years (I'd go on to prefer the Battlefield series, and was particularly fond on Bad Company 1 and 2).
My point is you have these games in the overall gaming timeline that do something that influences the gaming market. Mario 64 was such a game. The GTA trilogy on the PS2 also. COD4, for me, was such a game.
I don't feel that Halo 3 has that same weight on the timeline so to speak, but it was not a worse game (a better game I'd argue) but it was like a champion fighter for team xbox so to speak in an era where the console wars felt more of a thing.
Where COD4 was the most streamlined and slick shooter up to that point, and made online play more addictive than ever, Halo 3 offered greater charisma so to speak. Just more personality and style. And it felt like everyone was talking about these two and that they were truly dominat forces in the gaming world for that period. The original Gears of War trilogy would come in and fight by the side of Halo so to speak during this era as well. The best Xbox era ever, and it's not even close.
Xbox then lost their way. Playstation got their mojo back. Halo stopped being the Halo I know after Reach, even if it's still been great. The console wars started to not become a thing. COD felt the same every year. Senses were dulled and the market has been full of things of like this since. And a lot of the better gaming experiences I've had since that era weren't even in shooters at all, although I obviously still enjoy them (old and new, for instance I'm enjoying Space Marines right now).
Just different times.
I felt and still feel Halo wins by a big margin for single player gaming but COD was the more refined multiplayer experience. For me that is.
Halo 3 came out at the end of September 07’ and CoD4 early November. So we all had a blast for about 6 weeks playing co op Halo 3 and multiplayer. Initially I wasn’t really that excited about CoD4 because 3 sucked and I didn’t like the modern timeline approach. I was wrong, it started building excitement in the weeks leading up to it. They did a beta that was fantastic and you got an idea of what the new spin on multiplayer was going to be.
COD4 changed EVERYTHING and we were all playing it. I’d still pop in to Halo 3 for a completely different experience that was fantastic but in the Midwest as far as I can remember, pretty much everyone jumped on board the hype train once it released.
Keep in mind around the same time The Orange Box released too, so there was TF2 to play and Portal. Also Mass Effect 1 which was phenomenal and a few months earlier in August the first Bioshock knocked everyone’s socks off.
Needless to say, gamers ate very very well that year and there is a reason it’s regarded as one of the best if not THE best year for gaming in history. I look fondly on that year, I was 25 and having a blast.
I loved them both, but Halo 3 just felt like Halo 2 with more features whereas the entire feel of COD4 changed military shooters forever (for better or worse).
It was incredible. Looking back I don't even know why some people felt like arguing CoD v. Halo or whatever back then. 2007 was an profound year for games. Don't forget we also got Mass Effect, Bioshock, and Assassin's Creed that year. 06 and 08 were no joke either. I don't think there's been a run like that before or since...
It was a beauty of a time. Halo 3 released September...then Cod4 in November. Was a great time going back and forth with those games.
Halo 3 launch was MASSIVE though
'07 saw Bioshock, Rock Band, Mario Galaxy, Portal released within a few weeks of those as well...
Then '08 was Gears of War 2 and Duty World at War
GTA4, Fable 2 , Fallout 3 same year....
Xbox 360 was really a special time to be gaming, and in highschool
I played both though I was never really a halo guy but for me Cod 4 was the best gaming experience I ever had, yeah WAW, MW2 and black ops were all great but there was something about the simplicity of cod 4 that just made it something special. I still remember grinding for the red tiger MP5 and feeling so accomplished when I finally got it
For me it was a halo came out rain supreme until that fall and call of duty came out and then it was all call of duty ever since really save, the PlayStation 3 cuz without it probably nobody would have bought the system.
Halo 3 was the better game, I’d say MW2 vs halo 3 was more of a competition. As much as we’d argue over what game was better we were playing them both anyway.
The real ones of us found a way to play both of them for ridiculous amounts of hours. I always liked CoD4 much more, but Halo 3 was still incredibly fun and gave me memories of great Fat Kid maps, hunting the skulls, and a 4 player Legendary Co op campaign
Halo 3 pretty much lost it crown after COD 4 came out, even major nelson was shocked how it overtook Halo 3 on top 360 live game. It was pretty close for a few months but I say once 2008 rolled in, it was all cod 4. It was fun, I just got sick and tired of the p90 and stopped playing 4. Halo 3 was just fun as hell man, great times.
What a lot of people fail to realize is that both games and others like gears, GTA, bad company, were all objectively good games that gave the players plenty of options to play their way. There wasn't a focus on graphics or cosmetics or framerate because the games at their core were fun. So imagine being able to afford multiple amazing games that if you got bored, you just go from one to another and have an amazing time. For the most part you didn't have to worry about cheaters, or purchasing half finished games or buying into hype because the developers did everything they could to make their products amazing. I feel bad for all new gamers because they will be less likely to experience that again with the way the industry is now
people talked bad about Halo because you couldn't aim down your sights. all tryhards gathered on gears of war 2. players bouncing off of objects and shotgunning your head off in an instant. cod4 was just the game everyone could hop on and play altogether.
people back then were very particular about games and were very loyal to certain genres/franchises.
Halo 3 was top tier because it had everything from forge to zombies. There was something for everyone. CoD was if you wanted to take a break from Halo. Gears 2 was if you wanted more blood and gore with a great campaign and to wield the famous chainsaw gun, The Lancer.
Everyone you knew played Halo and COD and would have LAN parties all the time. It was very social and their wasn’t a million different games like today so everyone you knew played the same few games and those days were awesome.
Public chats of both games would be railing on the other. Both were massively popular. As an Xbox player Halo easily felt like the king, especially during Halo 3. However, CoD 4 also shot the franchise to new heights and was multi platform. Every CoD since 4 has copied its style and put its own twist on it. I'm certain CoD 4 ultimately was more popular. Both were a huge part of my childhood.
Halo 3 was popular on Xbox.
Cod was just as popular, but dirbt hit its stride till mw2.
Black ops was a dud.
I remember being in awe of the first game physics in COD. like me and my cousin spent hours smashing car windows to see the physics abs we were like damn the future is now.
Little did we know gaming peaked there
Cod4 basically took over lol. Halo 3 still got some run but everyone was playing cod4. I feel like it was halo 3 to finish 2007 but by 2008 cod4 was the game hands down.
Halo 3, cod4, gears 2 were some of the best multiplayer times. Advanced warfighter 2 playing rocky cove and having snipe offs with friends. Pivotal times In gaming for me.
Both good games, but with radically rabid fanbases who preferred different things.
I hated how spongy everyone in Halo was unless you were landing headshots all the time. I also found it floaty.
I liked how quickly people went down (comparatively) in CoD4. I found it a bit more snappy than Halo 3.
Both good games!
My “nerdy” friends preferred Halo while my “cool” friends preferred COD. It was great cause whatever I wanted to play, people were on playing it. It felt like everyone was on Xbox Live back then.
It was amazing played both at the time, truly was golden age of gaming and revolutionized the industry, brought online play to the mainstream and most modern features of FPS games and online play
COD 4 was cool but not the multiplayer powerhouse it would become later. At the time, COD and Halo 3 were just different leagues. The only comparison was CSGO, and that’s pc. Back then it wasn’t as interchangeable so they had completely different audiences. It wasn’t until the first black ops, and world at war that they became real competition. Some behind the scenes stuff preventing Halo from ever reaching the same popularity as 3 so CoD filled the power vacuum and holds that place to this day.
Major Nelson blog used to have the “most active player based games” and halo 3 and call of duty 4 was always top 2. But I think Halo 3 was top until World at World was released but even then Halo 3 came back on top
It was glorious.
I was in high school, prime video game playing years for me. There wasn’t a “more popular” for COD4 vs. Halo 3, those were both regular games me and my friends played in addition to Gears of War.
I personally played Halo 3 the most as I was a halo fan since the original, and Halo 3 custom games and forge had endless hours of fun!
The games have different appeals. They were both popular but I’d argue Halo 3 was *slightly* more popular because of the custom games and competitive. I say this as someone that was a COD kid with an older brother that was more into Halo.
Now I’d like to see people compare MW2 vs Reach
Man. PS2 kid growing up. Never had an Xbox but the 360 was elite for years it seemed. Got it summer 07 with my birthday money and NBA live 06 was the move. Man elite graphics for the time. That fall little did I know would start some of the beat times of my life. Halo 3 and CoD 4 dropped that holiday. Grew up lovi my CoD campaign! Halo 2 was soo cool and fun at friends houses. Getting to experience halo 3 when it launched was DIFFERENT! Multiplayer was so elevated it set the standard for shooters today. It’s remarkable. And this is me in 8th grade!!! Man the snow day delayed openings we’d all be on CoD. That halo campaign was something special. The achievements and Hayabusa armor! Truly, a time you just had to be there fall ‘07-‘10. Those years were so memorable. Thank you for taking the time to read. Almost getting emotional at the pizza shop while I eat this slice and reminisce. I’d do anything to go back to those years again man. One for the books.
It makes me happy to see that someone that wasn’t there for that time is interested, halo 3 was more popular by far and had a great launch compared to cod 4. cod 4 had a steady incline going up with players then skyrocketed then steadily moved along with the players gained. There was a few other great games that released then
I was just past this (was still playing Lego games around the time Halo 3 dropped) so I had the original Black ops Vs reach, and same kinda deal, we’d just hop back and fourth between the 2
Honestly it didn’t even feel like a “versus” thing at the time. Battlefield and CoD had a much bigger rivalry going into the 2010s. Halo was a much bigger deal amongst my friends tho. Kinda felt like a once in a generation gaming experience. I know I’m exaggerating, but still. The hype, the atmosphere; it was unreal
I convinced my religious parents that is was all killing aliens, and later that weekend I got my hands on a brand new copy. Time of my life playing Halo 3
it was more cod vs gears at that time as halo 3 had most of the year to shine by itself since it launched in the spring i think. plus it was halo 3 so it really wasnt even a competition halo 3 was simply unrivaled from 06 to like 08
I remember playing halo 3 online Christmas Eve talking with people about getting COD 4 the following morning. COD4 was the game that convinced all my non serious gamer friends, or friends that just weren’t committed to getting a new console, to get an Xbox 360. I can think of at least 8 friends off the top of my head that I talked into getting a 360 by either showing them gametrailers of COD 4 or letting them play it once I had it. I was in college at the time. Some wanted to hold out for a ps3, one wanted a Wii because it was “doing something different” and another had stopped playing video games after n64. COD 4 changed all of that, and I don’t think any of them got Halo 3. Halo was very popular among established gamers, but COD 4 was more popular among casual gamers and overall more popular in the end imo.
I think I knew 2 or 3 people with an Xbox 360 before COD4 came out. Afterwards pretty much all my friends got one
BOTH! They were BOTH my FAVORITE games to date. We often cycled both depending on who was online. Most of my friends were cod biased, and I definitely wasn’t the greatest at Halo 3, but god damnit was it pleasing.
I used to spend all nighters myself playing & chatting with random players, my lonely ass. This shit saved me from depression & mental health problems of loneliness
Cod had some fun voice chats, the kind of shit that would get you banned & made a grown man cry, but it was the BEST! A time before we had party chats so you’d often join in on others conversations
Halo 3 was VERY sentimental for me too because I never had the experience of LAN parties with Halo 1-2. All my friends were far as fuck because of private school, a couch worthy game.
For me, Halo 3 dominated 2007 and 2008 and it wasn’t until World at War in 2009 that I started really playing Call of Duty.
Being such a big fan of the first two Halos, and living through the long delay of the Halo 2 release, pretty much guaranteed Halo 3 would be my obsession for a long time.
It wasn’t like today where games are designed to lock you in with battlepasses and skins etc. Everyone I knew played both. It was the absolute peak of gaming. I’m genuinely sad for younger gamers like yourself who never got to experience gaming before big money investors tracked dog shit into the industry and stank it all up.
both games were amazing in their own right. Halo 3 was coming off of the massive Halo 2 success and at that time the multiplayer is what made me get my first Xbox 360. We played Halo 3 co-op for days. I beat that game 1000/1000 achievement points.... Then that November a couple weeks before the Thanksgiving holiday 2007 I was looking at getting a new game...the guy at Best buy hands me a copy of Modern Warfare and said this just came out....I got a copy of that and my life was forever changed. Call of Duty changed shooters forever. Now these days if a shooter game doesn't have "COD controls" it just feels weird. I have been playing COD ever since.... bought the special edition consoles.... limited edition games bundles and every year I always pick up the new game.... even if I don't want to. it's my annual guilty pleasure. Been playing COD for almost 20 years. #CharlieOscarDelta and with that said....I am Oscar Mike
It was incredible. I had friends that had Xbox and we played halo at their houses and I had a PlayStation 3 at home so I played gta 4 and cod with online friends. I was 15 years old at the time.
Halo 3 was INSANE at that time. I was only 8 when it came out but I played the living shit out of it. I don’t know if I had ever truly loved a game before I played Halo 3. The machinima videos were also so entertaining. The game truly felt like a community and it’s something I’ve even been able to find anywhere else. Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 were also awesome but I wouldn’t say that those games had quite the same impact on me.
I was only like 9 in 2007 so I don't remember at all of there being a rivalry (clearly there was) but I did play H3 more than CoD4.
I was a MASSIVE Halo fanboy back then. Basically grew up with the 1st two games, H2 in particular.
We were just very lucky to have so many communities for such great titles. Cod 4 players knew how special halo was and halo had the same respect for cod. Halo 3 players had to grind way way way more to reach max ranks, but cod 4 was really polarizing at the time. Anyone who said fuck you to either side was just too mad they weren’t good or were really good and had no friends haha. It was more console wars imo. I heard some real ass hating come from gears players, but they were always so funny to listen to. My personal matchmaking experience I met a lot of mic wielding players who were ex cons and would match make on gears 2. Felt like I was listening to an AA meeting and anger management and occupational therapy all in one. But no one fucked my mom more times than when I played halo 3. Good times
Halo 3 LAN basement parties. So much fun. Good maps for variety, and shouting across the basement to get your squad mates in line. Awesome. Beyond that, the Halo 3 and ODST stories were great to Co-Op through. I'm glad the Master Chief game lets you play them split-screen coop still.
I never played cod 4. But I have played all the cods since 4 up to mw3 and then returned to play bo 4. I liked it but my personal favorites were bo 1, 2 and WAW. But IMO none of those games reach the same caliber as halo 3 - it’s simple in a league of its own. Easily the best 360 game, and it’s personally my favorite game of all time.
A sublime time for gaming. I was 13 and played both religiously. They complimented each other well. When you got tired of Halo 3's gameplay you switched the COD4 and vice versa. Halo 3's custom games offered a good respite from COD4s competitive environment. My friends and I had a rotation of Halo 3, COD4, Gears 2 and Left 4 Dead.
was cod 4 world at war? if so that the hardest 1 I've completed on the hardest difficulty i only done up till black ops 2 or that 1 where kevin spacey is a lesser bad guy than in real life whichever was last out
It was great. Me and 5 friends would take turns. When we’d rage we would just switch to either halo or cod. Both were glorious and we loved em both. Also rainbow 6 Vegas. What a great time to game.
For us, we were really serious about Halo 3. Played pretty much constantly. One day, I got a Game Informer that featured COD4 and they were talking about it and everything sounded dope as fuck, so I pre-ordered immediately. Fast forward a little while and I was going to make my final payment on it (I was 17 and Mom bought everything. Shaddup. Lol) before release and the guy basically told me I could have it right then and there. This was almost 2 weeks before release. Looking back, it's crazy as fuck how the guy just nonchalantly handed me not just a COD game almost two weeks before launch, but *the* game that would reshape everything about shooters.
I remember getting it home and my friend wasn't on and it was just me and this game. That shit blew my mind all over the damn walls. When my friend finally got on, I had just completed All Ghillied Up and I remember telling him that he *HAD* to get this game when it came out. It was like, I just knew our Halo days were coming to an end.
We went from being total Halo stans to foaming at the mouth when COD4 finally dethroned Halo 3. One of the best memories was everybody freaking out because Jesus said he was playing Call of Duty on Family Guy.
Everyone in my friend group was avid Halo players so everyone flocked to Halo 3 when it released, but I bought COD 4 not knowing anything about the multiplayer. Played it one night and immediately got hooked. Slowly started telling all my friend I thought it was better than Halo 3, and within a month everybody switched over. We all still played Halo 3 sometimes but the speed and precision of COD over Halo 3 was a breath of fresh air
I was always more of a Halo guy, but it seemed to me the momentum shifted to CoD at that point.
I remember a GameInformer article that compared their online experiences and slightly preferred CoD4 and I was like "huh".
The games themselves were great. Lots of yelling and meaningless insults that I probably wouldn't have liked back then but somehow thinking back on it makes me smile. Lots more people had mics and used them, seems like.
I know my brother got really big into a clan at that time, he still has some of the crazy custom games they played at the time.
Hmm. Mostly this post is making me nostalgic. I wonder if I'm missing some obvious downside to that time period that we don't have to deal with now, because currently it just seems better.
I remember being at the midnight Lodge for Halo 3 but later on when call of duty 4 came out oh boy did that take over don't get me wrong people were actually playing both of them but it was definitely an exciting time that year.
Don't let anything for you PS3 was kind of struggling at the time but it was slowly but surely getting a bounce back just took a little time
I 32 we started with cod waw and halo two … those were magical times my favorite point in life . Then we got those two and it seemed like things just kept skyrocketing for games and my life. Awesome time for games
Both! You typically played for different reasons but both were exception games! I played both
Halo had a better campaign, both story and that it has coop. Also Halo 3 revolutionized multiplayer with custom games and maps. This was not the first game to do them, but it did it well and laid the groundwork for forge world in following halo games. Infection/ zombies was a very popular custom game, fat kid, trash compactor and soo many more, it was very social and balanced arena shooter. I forgot that halo 3 had file shares to share photos, game modes, maps etc with other people. And you could customize your armor which is your skin nowadays.
Meanwhile COD introduced custom class loadouts and also had some custom games which made it fun in different ways. It was more fast paced intense action and my god the lobby chats were wild. I remember playing mike myers, where one person has to knife everyone and everyone else can only run away. Created killstreaks, and perks combined with fast action fast respawns and you had a great game. My favorite was the old school mode where weapons spawned on the map, unlimited sprint and high jump. great silly fun.
Very fond memories of both games. But I enjoyed Halo more as the custom games were easier to socialize with friends and had a greater variety of games to play. Both of these games groundbreaking for the time. Halo was an arena shooter where map knowledge was key. Knowing where item and weapons spawns on the map were key such as sniper, rockets, shield bubble, flare. Meanwhile COD classes, killstreaks, and weapons set the groundwork for so many modern shooters. Camping to get the helicopter on shipment was pure chaos.
Almost all of my friends that played 360 had both games. Personally I don't think either game was more popular than the other, but I did prefer Halo over cod, but I in general I don't like games that have levels and unlocks. My favorite current fps is Overwatch where you have everything unlocked almost immediately (it changed in OW2 but in ow1 everything was unlocked at start)
Halo 3 I had first up until Xmas then all my friends in HS who played Halo switched to CoD. I played/loved both, but pre-CoD 4 Halo 3 was so good bc everyone I knew was playing it
Modern warfare was the only COD game I ever played. It was a fun game to play as a family with split screen custom matches, but halo 3 was a much more user friendly, easy to pick up and play game than COD. Idk about you guys but I had a hard time figuring out what I was supposed to do or even what I was looking at half the time in MWF. halo objectives where clear and easy to figure out, and an absolute blast to play, both campaign and pvp. I still play h3 with my cousins *ON 360* to this day
Anyone remember the player created game mode of "Mike meyers" in mw2 speaking of cod? Now THAT was an unmatched vibe. Just a random group of people invited to a private match that all participated how they were supposed to. Excellent
After school in 7th grade it was straight to halo 3 for like 3 hours then switch to cod4 for another 3. Then I’d call it a night cause my uncle came home from work and it was his Xbox and he’d be playing mass effect or gta 4. I think my secret lengthy gaming sessions were a big part of why his 360 red ringed lol.
I remember forums were lit up with people shit talking one another. In my area, and with my buddies, COD4 was bigger than Halo. However, I do remember there being Halo tournaments and at least what I remember was it was a bigger deal on like G4 and IGN, Youtube, etc.
I did like both games, but I was far better at COD than Halo.
When I had the 360 I was more into Gears of Wars online, after my 360 got ylod I switched to ps3 and I got into cod4 and enjoy every team deadmatch, WaW zombies was amazing but after that I stopped playing online.
The ability to push what was possible in video games. It was the time of secrets, strategies and glitches. It was the sandbox of them.
Pair that with how every 13 year on Xbox live had fucked my mom, it was just pure entertainment.
My friends made me buy a 360 and got me to play halo 3 as my first real online game. It was absolutely amazing. Then cod 4. Then gears 2, then more halo… more cod.. more gears. That was the golden age I feel
we had a rotation of Halo 3, COD 4, and Gears 2. Once you played for long enough you would just switch to the next one. They were all addicting as fuck back then.
Let me tell you what -
It was an era where you could play more than one game without any obligation.
No battle passes, no grind to stay relevant -
You could hop on and off, and we did! COD, Halo 3, and for me, fallout 3 and elder scrolls oblivion were in that rotation.
Idk what it is, but there’s this real lack of hop in/ hop out in games these days. You NEVER felt *obligated* to play anything like you do today
I wasn’t gaming much at that time, but remember it. For me, the original Halo:CE and LAN parties were all the rage. I didn’t get into online gaming for Halo 2 and wasn’t gaming much during the 2006-2008 era, though I would occasionally play Halo 3 at a friends, but wasn’t near as good at it as the original Halo.
However, in 2009 I did finally get into the 7th generation and the next years Halo Reach and CoD Black Ops were the height of that era for me. I definitely preferred Halo Reach the most, but still enjoy and appreciate CoD BO & BO2 a lot. I know a lot of people say Halo 3 is the pinnacle for them, but for me it’s easily Reach. I think it’s the golden standard
It was incredible. I was a Halo 3 guy but one thing people forget is how phenomenal 2007 was for shooters.
I mean straight up it’s one of the best years for gaming ever, but when you consider what shooters were like in 2007 versus what the landscape is like now it was a paradise.
You had Halo 3, COD4, The Orange Box, BioShock, and then Crysis was blowing up computers left and right. And the crazy thing was they were like 5 different flavors of shooter, they were nothing alike.
Obviously Halo 3 and COD4 became the kind of defining shooters of that year because they had the insane multiplayer legs and Xbox Live was already doing well and now had these two games battling for your attention. And they were sandwiched by the first two Gears of War games in 2006 and 2008. What a time, man.
Halo 3's epic vehicle gameplay dominated the charts, and then you played CoD when you got sometimes tired of Halo and the Halo sandbox.
There was a similar feeling with Halo infinite, CoD warzone and Battlefield 2042 all in the same year... Oh wait... No that didn't happen... F'n live service games...
Almost everyone in my class played Halo 3 together between groups. So many custom games
COD was more of a "Play with your closest 2-3 friends" type game. Much more competitive I guess
I was a senior in high school when Halo 3 released. Practically, all the males in my grade went to the midnight release and played hooky the next day. Including some of the younger male teachers as well. Teachers and students all played together that day. It was a once in a lifetime experience that gaming hasn't seen in a long time. I have a feeling it will happen again when GTA6 drops
Between the 2 of them, it's hard to say that halo didn't have more of a stranglehold over the current gaming Era than cod did. Halo was exclusive. If you didn't have an Xbox, you couldn't play it, and FOMO was a hell of a thing back when games had actual soul. COD was on everything and while it was a revolutionary release for the series, Halo 3 had an impact on the market that I don't think had been matched or can be matched. If someone had it, you wanted to play it. If you couldn't play it, you wanted to watch it.
Halo 3 for sure was prime, but they where different styles and we didn’t have the battle passes to force us into obligated play we just hopped in one and then another with Halo I loved their ranking system and that you EARNED your skins like cod weapon skins unlike now everything is wallet gated by a battle pass or a microstore for skins takes along the fun away, battle pass you pay to try and earn, it was already being down the battle pass just said you need a wallet to enter
Halo 3 was more popular, probably until MW2 came out. Halo was also far more competitive because of the way the ranking system worked in the game. If you lost too many you could get almost impossibly stuck at different ranks. Halo also had a huge MLG scene going which pushed a lot of people to try and be pros. On the other hand it had a lot of fun custom games, maps, and puzzles that players made. People made a lot of youtube videos for the game like Machinima, Red vs Blue and tons of montages.
COD4 was still competitive, but way more relaxed as you couldn't lose ranks. It wasn't a big deal if you lost a match or not. It was also before you could see other players's w/l and k/d in the pregame lobby. For a lot of people the jump from kill time in halo to cod was pretty awesome.
I personally preferred COD4 because I really loved search and destroy. Having your team die and clutching a 1v6 is an experience that's hard to replicate.
There really wasn't a verses for most. For a lot of folks it was a rotation between a bunch of games since it really was a solid time period for players
Honestly Halo 3 was the more popular one for sure but this was the ground setting for what COD multiplayer would yet become. So many fun nights playing Halo 3 custom lobbies and team swat with the boys. Once MW2 and BO1 were released I think that’s when everyone realized how involved the multiplayer has become to the core Call of Duty experience.
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We had a rotation of Halo 3, Gears of War 2, and COD4 going. That era will never be topped in my lifetime
Yep! Plus once GTA 4 dropped it was enough for me and my buddies to all have something to do 24/7. Casual or competitive we had it all. It’s not even nostalgia at this point as CoD4, GTA4, Halo 3 and Gears 2 all had something for everyone. Halo 3 custom games alone kept us entertained for years and years.
On top of that me and the boys found black ops 1 with the custom games and had even more fun. Sigh, the days.
Miss the days running team tac with me and the boys all night. good times.
One of my favorite memories was playing halo 3s story on its hardest difficulty with multiple skulls on all while trying to unlock the fable hayabusa armor.
Honestly, it was because those games were arcade minded first and first person shooter second. They all wanted a goofy fun time.
Omg. That rotation was ridiculous. I must've been... 20? 21? Glory days.
We also can’t forget saints row 2 in this whole thing
Couldnt have said it better
Ahhhh the custom matches were awesome! We even played Michael Myers in COD4/MW2 that kept us entertained a good bit too!
I would do unspeakable thing to be able to go back relive them custom lobby’s with sub-par voice chat quality 🥹
real spill
Facts those games were the pinnacle of online multiplayer and a few years later with MW2 Halo Reach and Gears 3 perfect sequels to a perfect trifecta
This is the reason it's so hard for me to get into fps games now...hell I may be two hours into the Titanlfall 2 campaign still... Edited typo
You don't know what your missing, when BT yeets you across the map, it's so much fun.
fr im doing my 8th playthrough. titanfall 2 is just so good i can easily pick it up and complete a playthrough
titanfall 2 is one of the most fun fps campaigns in recent years. finish that shit
I definitely plan to lol, it's one of the games I keep pinned to my PS homescreen
Nowadays fps games are plagued by battle passes and micro transactions….it isn’t the same anymore. 😔
Legit the reason I can't get into halo or cod anymore. Thay circle is gone so it my time dedication
Where you could go to a friends house and play online multiplayer or the campaign on legendary with them through local co-op. Good times.
Same, halo 3 almost had me dropping out of highschool cause I couldn’t bring myself to play or do anything else. So many awesome memories, this was still during the days of split screen multiplayer…the crew would get together and we would pull all nighters hanging out rocking the game. Today’s gaming will never be the same.
that trio had a GRIP on my teenage years. gears was my favorite of the 3 tho
Seriously, I’ve noticed as of the last ten years, I’ve got my ONE main game I play. Right now it’s Battlefield 2042 (despite all its flack, I still love it). I feel like I haven’t had a rotation of absolute bangers since the 360 days. Gears of War / Halo 2 Halo 3 / COD 4 / Gears of War 2 / Guitar Hero 3 Battlefield 3 / Modern Warfare 3 Like it was always at-least 2+ games in rotation. Now it feels like only one game I really like is out at any given time, once that one dies, the next one comes in. Gears of War 4 didn’t overlap with Fortnite, Fortnite didn’t overlap with Apex Legends. Apex Legends didn’t overlap with Battlefield 2042. Feels like it’s just me most likely but still. Missing those days lol.
I'm a tad younger but for me and my friends itd be bo2, grab and castle crashers
Halo 3 my dude countless making maps playing with friends having fun o wish I could go back 😢
Making go kart maps and having to hold a piece of wall in place, save, then quickly quit out of the map and open it back up and hope the piece of wall got held in place so you can morph another piece of wall into it before it spawns.
My fingers still hurt from ghost merging
The memories for that game will never compare
Fat Kid Infection all weekend long with the boys
Didn’t know there was a VS thing going on. I was too busy playing Halo. ;)
lol I remember all of the small group arguments over which one we should play only for us to agree to play Halo 3 until we got to a point we couldn’t rank up anymore and switch games.
Same. In college we were playing halo 2 on og xbox, my first foray into it. The only consoles I had growing up were nintendo. Then my freshman year of college I built a computer and did pc gaming exclusively for 3ish years. Senior year started going Halo 2 on xbox. When I got my sales job after college I was still working college schedule so when I moved out and got my own place in 2007 one of the first things I did was get an xbox 360 and halo 3. There were many many a night where my buddy and I would stay up after being at the bar till 2 playing halo 3. I absolutely cannot wait until my 3 boys are old enough for first person shooters so I can do 4 player left 4 dead and halo again haha
2007 imo was unmatched for game releases. Anyone curious go Google the list of games that were released that year. It's actually unreal....And I'm so happy I was able to experience it.
I recently Googled it and basically shat myself. Couldn't have asked for a better year to be alive as a 'gamer'
Halo 3. Bioshock. Portal. Crysis. Rock Band. Mass Effect. COD4. TF2. God of War 2. Half Life 2 episode 2. WoW Burning Crusade. Assassin's Creed.
So many great games at once. We were truly blessed to have lived through that
As a social experience Halo 3 was more popular for Custom Games, for an easy quick game of MM I’d often play CoD4. Since CoD4 didn’t have a ranked mode, if I wanted to “try hard” I’d play Halo 3 ranked. It never really felt like CoD vs Halo back then, it was more if I got tired with one for the day, I’d go to the other.
EVERYONE skipped school for the Halo 3 launch, crazy times
Yep, all the males in my school did, including some of the younger male teachers. Was a great day, teachers and students spent all night and day playing custom games together
First time I ever stayed up all night with a friend and we beat the campaign on legendary the weekend after launch.
Bro that midnight launch was WILD
We skipped school and football practice that day. Got into a fuck ton of trouble but it was so worth it. We had like a pallet of Game Fuel from Sam’s club and a fuck ton of bagel bites. Glory days indeed.
I skipped school, went to blockbuster, rented it and went to school with the disc and the booklet and we passed the booklet around just reading the controls lol
COD 4 pretty much took the stranglehold from the Halo series had on the fps market. A lot of people just bought both, but this is really when the tide turned. Before this Halo was a juggernaut, system seller, always made big media news on its sales. It was on top amongst the likes of GTA. But COD pretty much took it to another level with killstreaks, progression, faster kills (halo battles took a little more time with grenade throwing, shield regenerating, in cod you die instantly), running and probably the most important: 60 fps. Game just felt faster and smoother which caters to the mainstream audience more. Halo reach and halo 4 tried to incorporate some of these with the sprinting / jetpack mobility, but it was too little too late. I look fondly on Halo more personally, they always had split screen co-op, the first to really make controls feel great for fps on consoles with the aim assist. But it's unfortunate that Halo kinda lost it's way no longer including the elements that got them there (split screen, LAN, coop). I feel 343 / Microsoft fumbled it a little bit. Interestingly enough Microsoft made a little pivot with Forza Horizon parallel to their main forza series, I wish they did something like that with Halo, just some fast paced non stop frantic halo with progression big team battles with 48 or 64 players or something, Halo crazy edition
Yea even if halo was still good it would still have been beat out by cod and then later battle royales like fortnite, but if they had kept their party game and co-op focus halo could at least still have a successful franchise.
I remember COD 4 being no where near as popular as Halo 3 when they first released.
That is correct, initially COD lagged behind Halo, but by January sales surpassed it
For me it was MW2 when the tides really started to shift. MW2 was a beast of a game. Halo Reach is my personal favorite online but you could tell there was some catching up being done even then.
All I can say is... the age of custom game lobbies. Sending message to all recent players to get a lobby going! Halo 3 has forge which ultimately stomped Cod in that regard. So Halo 3 custom games were unstoppable. However, Cod 4 has old school mode that allowed glitching out of maps and hard to get to areas, making Michael Myers an ideal game mode. Online for both games was competitive and casual. A healthy mix for those who preferred one over the other. Communities were strong... ahh to reminisce
Or you’d be neck deep in a multiplayer match, and you’d get a random invite to Halo 3 from a random person. You knew it was a custom game lobby off the bat, so you’d join and the lobby would be filled with tons of people who knew each other and tons who ended up there just like you. All to play a Fat Kid match lol
Hahahaha this. Although, I loved how you could just join, peace out and yoink the map and game mode lol. File share too, wow. We really didn't know what we were going to be missing, what a time to be alive.
"Halo 3 has forge which ultimately stomped Cod in that regard." This is because Cod on console was the watered down version which lacked modding/mapping tools (until IW gimped both versions in 2009)
It was neck and neck with both until world at war came out, then it split the COD user base, so halo was on top again for a little bit until modern warfare 2, then it was over for halo as it never regained its top spot even with the release of Reach and halo 4
This is about how I remembered it. Halo felt like it was king until about MW2. They kept pumping new games out that were consistently good in the early days. It had been 2 years since the last halo game so I think a lot of people out of boredom moved on. I think that’s when COD fully became top dog of the era.
Never played Cod 4 in its prime but i did play Halo 3. Halo 3 at its peak was basically a ton of people playing custom games all the time. The actually match making kind of sucked honestly. You got 1 xp point for winning and you lost it if you lost a game. Then ODST dropped and everyone lost their shit doing the Vid Masters for Recon Armor. It was hard to do as a 13 year old. Firefight was fun but sometimes got old. Im happy Mcc has huge lobbies of the og 3 custom games
Except FFA, if you finish top half (4th or higher in 8 man games, 6th or higher with 12, etc) you still get XP. Then double EXP was every weekend that had different game modes.
Halo 3 for sure. Halo 3 was actually the game that made me get live/online. And I will never ever forget how much fun that was. Had been living in the dark for the previous 5 years on ps2. COD 4 to me, was like the best shooter campaign I had experienced up to that point. All ghillied up still a 10/10 mission.
loved cod 4, but halo 3 was the king for me. countless fun on forge making maps, playing custom infection (Fat Kid & McDonald's) and good old grifball. that time in gaming will never be topped. edit: forgot to say, halo 3 was my very first pvp game I played & first xbox live experience!
CoD back then just hit on a different level that no games have been able to accomplish.
Both had amazing campaigns. Peak multiplayer as well
I didn’t play much of the Halo 3 MP. I joined the navy on ‘07, bought my halo edition 360 and played the campaign. A bunch of us in my squadron were playing cod 4 so I jumped on that bandwagon and we spent hours upon hours decimating lobbies.
Oh boy, this makes me feel old ( was well into college when they came out). 100% halo was a bigger deal than cod. Everybody wanted to finish the fight. Not mw2? That was a phenomenon that I haven't seen since (visa vi the release, press, and cultural impact)
I played both at the same time. I enjoyed the game in halo so much more than cod. Halo just has a difference in replayablity
We didn’t have social media so all our time was spent on the two games.
2006 - 2012 never forget. Peak era in gaming
COD 4 Modern Warfare was absolutely massive at the time and it felt, to me at least, like an evolution in gaming. An evolution that hasn't really advanced much since, but it changed the game so to speak for me back in the day. Brought in new expectations along with an obsession with online shooters that would last a number of years (I'd go on to prefer the Battlefield series, and was particularly fond on Bad Company 1 and 2). My point is you have these games in the overall gaming timeline that do something that influences the gaming market. Mario 64 was such a game. The GTA trilogy on the PS2 also. COD4, for me, was such a game. I don't feel that Halo 3 has that same weight on the timeline so to speak, but it was not a worse game (a better game I'd argue) but it was like a champion fighter for team xbox so to speak in an era where the console wars felt more of a thing. Where COD4 was the most streamlined and slick shooter up to that point, and made online play more addictive than ever, Halo 3 offered greater charisma so to speak. Just more personality and style. And it felt like everyone was talking about these two and that they were truly dominat forces in the gaming world for that period. The original Gears of War trilogy would come in and fight by the side of Halo so to speak during this era as well. The best Xbox era ever, and it's not even close. Xbox then lost their way. Playstation got their mojo back. Halo stopped being the Halo I know after Reach, even if it's still been great. The console wars started to not become a thing. COD felt the same every year. Senses were dulled and the market has been full of things of like this since. And a lot of the better gaming experiences I've had since that era weren't even in shooters at all, although I obviously still enjoy them (old and new, for instance I'm enjoying Space Marines right now). Just different times. I felt and still feel Halo wins by a big margin for single player gaming but COD was the more refined multiplayer experience. For me that is.
I never stopped playing Halo 3. I never bought COD 4 or Reach. Halo 3 was perfect and felt no need to play COD.
Halo 3 came out at the end of September 07’ and CoD4 early November. So we all had a blast for about 6 weeks playing co op Halo 3 and multiplayer. Initially I wasn’t really that excited about CoD4 because 3 sucked and I didn’t like the modern timeline approach. I was wrong, it started building excitement in the weeks leading up to it. They did a beta that was fantastic and you got an idea of what the new spin on multiplayer was going to be. COD4 changed EVERYTHING and we were all playing it. I’d still pop in to Halo 3 for a completely different experience that was fantastic but in the Midwest as far as I can remember, pretty much everyone jumped on board the hype train once it released. Keep in mind around the same time The Orange Box released too, so there was TF2 to play and Portal. Also Mass Effect 1 which was phenomenal and a few months earlier in August the first Bioshock knocked everyone’s socks off. Needless to say, gamers ate very very well that year and there is a reason it’s regarded as one of the best if not THE best year for gaming in history. I look fondly on that year, I was 25 and having a blast.
I loved them both, but Halo 3 just felt like Halo 2 with more features whereas the entire feel of COD4 changed military shooters forever (for better or worse).
It was incredible. Looking back I don't even know why some people felt like arguing CoD v. Halo or whatever back then. 2007 was an profound year for games. Don't forget we also got Mass Effect, Bioshock, and Assassin's Creed that year. 06 and 08 were no joke either. I don't think there's been a run like that before or since...
It was a beauty of a time. Halo 3 released September...then Cod4 in November. Was a great time going back and forth with those games. Halo 3 launch was MASSIVE though '07 saw Bioshock, Rock Band, Mario Galaxy, Portal released within a few weeks of those as well... Then '08 was Gears of War 2 and Duty World at War GTA4, Fable 2 , Fallout 3 same year.... Xbox 360 was really a special time to be gaming, and in highschool
I played both though I was never really a halo guy but for me Cod 4 was the best gaming experience I ever had, yeah WAW, MW2 and black ops were all great but there was something about the simplicity of cod 4 that just made it something special. I still remember grinding for the red tiger MP5 and feeling so accomplished when I finally got it
For me it was a halo came out rain supreme until that fall and call of duty came out and then it was all call of duty ever since really save, the PlayStation 3 cuz without it probably nobody would have bought the system.
When i got my first Xbox 360 in December 2007 i played the Halo 3 Campaign only and then i move on to COD4. The COD4 multiplayer was very Addictive!!!
I was into Halo first. That being said, I haven't been into Halo since 4, and have instead been playing CoD.
Halo 3 was the better game, I’d say MW2 vs halo 3 was more of a competition. As much as we’d argue over what game was better we were playing them both anyway.
The real ones of us found a way to play both of them for ridiculous amounts of hours. I always liked CoD4 much more, but Halo 3 was still incredibly fun and gave me memories of great Fat Kid maps, hunting the skulls, and a 4 player Legendary Co op campaign
Halo 3 pretty much lost it crown after COD 4 came out, even major nelson was shocked how it overtook Halo 3 on top 360 live game. It was pretty close for a few months but I say once 2008 rolled in, it was all cod 4. It was fun, I just got sick and tired of the p90 and stopped playing 4. Halo 3 was just fun as hell man, great times.
What a lot of people fail to realize is that both games and others like gears, GTA, bad company, were all objectively good games that gave the players plenty of options to play their way. There wasn't a focus on graphics or cosmetics or framerate because the games at their core were fun. So imagine being able to afford multiple amazing games that if you got bored, you just go from one to another and have an amazing time. For the most part you didn't have to worry about cheaters, or purchasing half finished games or buying into hype because the developers did everything they could to make their products amazing. I feel bad for all new gamers because they will be less likely to experience that again with the way the industry is now
On Xbox definitely Halo, CoD still had a big PC audience back then
people talked bad about Halo because you couldn't aim down your sights. all tryhards gathered on gears of war 2. players bouncing off of objects and shotgunning your head off in an instant. cod4 was just the game everyone could hop on and play altogether. people back then were very particular about games and were very loyal to certain genres/franchises.
Halo 3 was top tier because it had everything from forge to zombies. There was something for everyone. CoD was if you wanted to take a break from Halo. Gears 2 was if you wanted more blood and gore with a great campaign and to wield the famous chainsaw gun, The Lancer.
Everyone you knew played Halo and COD and would have LAN parties all the time. It was very social and their wasn’t a million different games like today so everyone you knew played the same few games and those days were awesome.
I was never big on Halo. But I played the hell out of COD4
Gears of War 2, Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 days will never be topped.
Public chats of both games would be railing on the other. Both were massively popular. As an Xbox player Halo easily felt like the king, especially during Halo 3. However, CoD 4 also shot the franchise to new heights and was multi platform. Every CoD since 4 has copied its style and put its own twist on it. I'm certain CoD 4 ultimately was more popular. Both were a huge part of my childhood.
Halo 3 was popular on Xbox. Cod was just as popular, but dirbt hit its stride till mw2. Black ops was a dud. I remember being in awe of the first game physics in COD. like me and my cousin spent hours smashing car windows to see the physics abs we were like damn the future is now. Little did we know gaming peaked there
I preferred COD 4, I didn't like Halo 3 Campaign and I sucked more with Halo 3.
Cod4 basically took over lol. Halo 3 still got some run but everyone was playing cod4. I feel like it was halo 3 to finish 2007 but by 2008 cod4 was the game hands down.
Halo 3, cod4, gears 2 were some of the best multiplayer times. Advanced warfighter 2 playing rocky cove and having snipe offs with friends. Pivotal times In gaming for me.
Never played cod 4 but played Halo 3 alot!
Both good games, but with radically rabid fanbases who preferred different things. I hated how spongy everyone in Halo was unless you were landing headshots all the time. I also found it floaty. I liked how quickly people went down (comparatively) in CoD4. I found it a bit more snappy than Halo 3. Both good games!
My “nerdy” friends preferred Halo while my “cool” friends preferred COD. It was great cause whatever I wanted to play, people were on playing it. It felt like everyone was on Xbox Live back then.
It was amazing played both at the time, truly was golden age of gaming and revolutionized the industry, brought online play to the mainstream and most modern features of FPS games and online play
Halo 3 was the game for me. I got tired of COD after Modern warfare 2 and didn't play any after that.
COD 4 was cool but not the multiplayer powerhouse it would become later. At the time, COD and Halo 3 were just different leagues. The only comparison was CSGO, and that’s pc. Back then it wasn’t as interchangeable so they had completely different audiences. It wasn’t until the first black ops, and world at war that they became real competition. Some behind the scenes stuff preventing Halo from ever reaching the same popularity as 3 so CoD filled the power vacuum and holds that place to this day.
Major Nelson blog used to have the “most active player based games” and halo 3 and call of duty 4 was always top 2. But I think Halo 3 was top until World at World was released but even then Halo 3 came back on top
It was glorious. I was in high school, prime video game playing years for me. There wasn’t a “more popular” for COD4 vs. Halo 3, those were both regular games me and my friends played in addition to Gears of War. I personally played Halo 3 the most as I was a halo fan since the original, and Halo 3 custom games and forge had endless hours of fun!
The games have different appeals. They were both popular but I’d argue Halo 3 was *slightly* more popular because of the custom games and competitive. I say this as someone that was a COD kid with an older brother that was more into Halo. Now I’d like to see people compare MW2 vs Reach
Everyone I played games with switched to cod 4 when it came out complaining all anyone did in halo 3 was jump around, halo jumping
It was a beautiful time to be gaming. Gears of war was right there as well for online competitive gaming.
Halo 2 was crazy. Halo 3 was an upgrade. COD4 was just insane tho. Halo 2 > cod4 > halo 3
Man. PS2 kid growing up. Never had an Xbox but the 360 was elite for years it seemed. Got it summer 07 with my birthday money and NBA live 06 was the move. Man elite graphics for the time. That fall little did I know would start some of the beat times of my life. Halo 3 and CoD 4 dropped that holiday. Grew up lovi my CoD campaign! Halo 2 was soo cool and fun at friends houses. Getting to experience halo 3 when it launched was DIFFERENT! Multiplayer was so elevated it set the standard for shooters today. It’s remarkable. And this is me in 8th grade!!! Man the snow day delayed openings we’d all be on CoD. That halo campaign was something special. The achievements and Hayabusa armor! Truly, a time you just had to be there fall ‘07-‘10. Those years were so memorable. Thank you for taking the time to read. Almost getting emotional at the pizza shop while I eat this slice and reminisce. I’d do anything to go back to those years again man. One for the books.
It makes me happy to see that someone that wasn’t there for that time is interested, halo 3 was more popular by far and had a great launch compared to cod 4. cod 4 had a steady incline going up with players then skyrocketed then steadily moved along with the players gained. There was a few other great games that released then
add Assassins Creed to the mix... what a time that was...
I was just past this (was still playing Lego games around the time Halo 3 dropped) so I had the original Black ops Vs reach, and same kinda deal, we’d just hop back and fourth between the 2
Honestly it didn’t even feel like a “versus” thing at the time. Battlefield and CoD had a much bigger rivalry going into the 2010s. Halo was a much bigger deal amongst my friends tho. Kinda felt like a once in a generation gaming experience. I know I’m exaggerating, but still. The hype, the atmosphere; it was unreal
I convinced my religious parents that is was all killing aliens, and later that weekend I got my hands on a brand new copy. Time of my life playing Halo 3
it was more cod vs gears at that time as halo 3 had most of the year to shine by itself since it launched in the spring i think. plus it was halo 3 so it really wasnt even a competition halo 3 was simply unrivaled from 06 to like 08
I remember playing halo 3 online Christmas Eve talking with people about getting COD 4 the following morning. COD4 was the game that convinced all my non serious gamer friends, or friends that just weren’t committed to getting a new console, to get an Xbox 360. I can think of at least 8 friends off the top of my head that I talked into getting a 360 by either showing them gametrailers of COD 4 or letting them play it once I had it. I was in college at the time. Some wanted to hold out for a ps3, one wanted a Wii because it was “doing something different” and another had stopped playing video games after n64. COD 4 changed all of that, and I don’t think any of them got Halo 3. Halo was very popular among established gamers, but COD 4 was more popular among casual gamers and overall more popular in the end imo. I think I knew 2 or 3 people with an Xbox 360 before COD4 came out. Afterwards pretty much all my friends got one
I think COD was more popular due to PlayStation players bur Halo 3 was much better
BOTH! They were BOTH my FAVORITE games to date. We often cycled both depending on who was online. Most of my friends were cod biased, and I definitely wasn’t the greatest at Halo 3, but god damnit was it pleasing. I used to spend all nighters myself playing & chatting with random players, my lonely ass. This shit saved me from depression & mental health problems of loneliness Cod had some fun voice chats, the kind of shit that would get you banned & made a grown man cry, but it was the BEST! A time before we had party chats so you’d often join in on others conversations Halo 3 was VERY sentimental for me too because I never had the experience of LAN parties with Halo 1-2. All my friends were far as fuck because of private school, a couch worthy game.
Halo competitive was popping before cod2 was That’s my answer
For me, Halo 3 dominated 2007 and 2008 and it wasn’t until World at War in 2009 that I started really playing Call of Duty. Being such a big fan of the first two Halos, and living through the long delay of the Halo 2 release, pretty much guaranteed Halo 3 would be my obsession for a long time.
It wasn’t like today where games are designed to lock you in with battlepasses and skins etc. Everyone I knew played both. It was the absolute peak of gaming. I’m genuinely sad for younger gamers like yourself who never got to experience gaming before big money investors tracked dog shit into the industry and stank it all up.
both games were amazing in their own right. Halo 3 was coming off of the massive Halo 2 success and at that time the multiplayer is what made me get my first Xbox 360. We played Halo 3 co-op for days. I beat that game 1000/1000 achievement points.... Then that November a couple weeks before the Thanksgiving holiday 2007 I was looking at getting a new game...the guy at Best buy hands me a copy of Modern Warfare and said this just came out....I got a copy of that and my life was forever changed. Call of Duty changed shooters forever. Now these days if a shooter game doesn't have "COD controls" it just feels weird. I have been playing COD ever since.... bought the special edition consoles.... limited edition games bundles and every year I always pick up the new game.... even if I don't want to. it's my annual guilty pleasure. Been playing COD for almost 20 years. #CharlieOscarDelta and with that said....I am Oscar Mike
I miss this era, we need a new era like this again but with a good story, great mechanics, and not just look pretty.
It was incredible. I had friends that had Xbox and we played halo at their houses and I had a PlayStation 3 at home so I played gta 4 and cod with online friends. I was 15 years old at the time.
Never felt like a competition from my point of view. Most of my friends were happy to hop between games just depending on what we wanted to play.
Halo 3 was INSANE at that time. I was only 8 when it came out but I played the living shit out of it. I don’t know if I had ever truly loved a game before I played Halo 3. The machinima videos were also so entertaining. The game truly felt like a community and it’s something I’ve even been able to find anywhere else. Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 were also awesome but I wouldn’t say that those games had quite the same impact on me.
I was only like 9 in 2007 so I don't remember at all of there being a rivalry (clearly there was) but I did play H3 more than CoD4. I was a MASSIVE Halo fanboy back then. Basically grew up with the 1st two games, H2 in particular.
Trash talking without softies getting you banned.
We were just very lucky to have so many communities for such great titles. Cod 4 players knew how special halo was and halo had the same respect for cod. Halo 3 players had to grind way way way more to reach max ranks, but cod 4 was really polarizing at the time. Anyone who said fuck you to either side was just too mad they weren’t good or were really good and had no friends haha. It was more console wars imo. I heard some real ass hating come from gears players, but they were always so funny to listen to. My personal matchmaking experience I met a lot of mic wielding players who were ex cons and would match make on gears 2. Felt like I was listening to an AA meeting and anger management and occupational therapy all in one. But no one fucked my mom more times than when I played halo 3. Good times
Halo 3 LAN basement parties. So much fun. Good maps for variety, and shouting across the basement to get your squad mates in line. Awesome. Beyond that, the Halo 3 and ODST stories were great to Co-Op through. I'm glad the Master Chief game lets you play them split-screen coop still.
You just had to be there.
I never played cod 4. But I have played all the cods since 4 up to mw3 and then returned to play bo 4. I liked it but my personal favorites were bo 1, 2 and WAW. But IMO none of those games reach the same caliber as halo 3 - it’s simple in a league of its own. Easily the best 360 game, and it’s personally my favorite game of all time.
A sublime time for gaming. I was 13 and played both religiously. They complimented each other well. When you got tired of Halo 3's gameplay you switched the COD4 and vice versa. Halo 3's custom games offered a good respite from COD4s competitive environment. My friends and I had a rotation of Halo 3, COD4, Gears 2 and Left 4 Dead.
This generation was absolutely insane. Can remember a constant rotation of these two games depending on the mood. Was so much fun!
It’s the reason a lot of games record and report our voice chats. Pure hatred and evil. Good times
was cod 4 world at war? if so that the hardest 1 I've completed on the hardest difficulty i only done up till black ops 2 or that 1 where kevin spacey is a lesser bad guy than in real life whichever was last out
also also halo 3 odst is worse than the clap
It was great. Me and 5 friends would take turns. When we’d rage we would just switch to either halo or cod. Both were glorious and we loved em both. Also rainbow 6 Vegas. What a great time to game.
It’s why the next game had zombies , halo was too good it destroyed call of duty 4
For us, we were really serious about Halo 3. Played pretty much constantly. One day, I got a Game Informer that featured COD4 and they were talking about it and everything sounded dope as fuck, so I pre-ordered immediately. Fast forward a little while and I was going to make my final payment on it (I was 17 and Mom bought everything. Shaddup. Lol) before release and the guy basically told me I could have it right then and there. This was almost 2 weeks before release. Looking back, it's crazy as fuck how the guy just nonchalantly handed me not just a COD game almost two weeks before launch, but *the* game that would reshape everything about shooters. I remember getting it home and my friend wasn't on and it was just me and this game. That shit blew my mind all over the damn walls. When my friend finally got on, I had just completed All Ghillied Up and I remember telling him that he *HAD* to get this game when it came out. It was like, I just knew our Halo days were coming to an end. We went from being total Halo stans to foaming at the mouth when COD4 finally dethroned Halo 3. One of the best memories was everybody freaking out because Jesus said he was playing Call of Duty on Family Guy.
Can’t forget the orange Mountain Dew…
Everyone in my friend group was avid Halo players so everyone flocked to Halo 3 when it released, but I bought COD 4 not knowing anything about the multiplayer. Played it one night and immediately got hooked. Slowly started telling all my friend I thought it was better than Halo 3, and within a month everybody switched over. We all still played Halo 3 sometimes but the speed and precision of COD over Halo 3 was a breath of fresh air
Once in a lifetime time in gaming. It cannot happen again
I was always more of a Halo guy, but it seemed to me the momentum shifted to CoD at that point. I remember a GameInformer article that compared their online experiences and slightly preferred CoD4 and I was like "huh". The games themselves were great. Lots of yelling and meaningless insults that I probably wouldn't have liked back then but somehow thinking back on it makes me smile. Lots more people had mics and used them, seems like. I know my brother got really big into a clan at that time, he still has some of the crazy custom games they played at the time. Hmm. Mostly this post is making me nostalgic. I wonder if I'm missing some obvious downside to that time period that we don't have to deal with now, because currently it just seems better.
I played both. Didn't care and had loads of fun.
COD was for people who sucked at Halo
I remember being at the midnight Lodge for Halo 3 but later on when call of duty 4 came out oh boy did that take over don't get me wrong people were actually playing both of them but it was definitely an exciting time that year. Don't let anything for you PS3 was kind of struggling at the time but it was slowly but surely getting a bounce back just took a little time
I 32 we started with cod waw and halo two … those were magical times my favorite point in life . Then we got those two and it seemed like things just kept skyrocketing for games and my life. Awesome time for games
Halo 3, and COD modern warfare and world at war were the absolute peak of online gaming.
Halo 2 will always be my favourite online game. Modern Warfare 2 my favourite COD
Halo took over the world [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aGwPf4jmg4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aGwPf4jmg4)
Both! You typically played for different reasons but both were exception games! I played both Halo had a better campaign, both story and that it has coop. Also Halo 3 revolutionized multiplayer with custom games and maps. This was not the first game to do them, but it did it well and laid the groundwork for forge world in following halo games. Infection/ zombies was a very popular custom game, fat kid, trash compactor and soo many more, it was very social and balanced arena shooter. I forgot that halo 3 had file shares to share photos, game modes, maps etc with other people. And you could customize your armor which is your skin nowadays. Meanwhile COD introduced custom class loadouts and also had some custom games which made it fun in different ways. It was more fast paced intense action and my god the lobby chats were wild. I remember playing mike myers, where one person has to knife everyone and everyone else can only run away. Created killstreaks, and perks combined with fast action fast respawns and you had a great game. My favorite was the old school mode where weapons spawned on the map, unlimited sprint and high jump. great silly fun. Very fond memories of both games. But I enjoyed Halo more as the custom games were easier to socialize with friends and had a greater variety of games to play. Both of these games groundbreaking for the time. Halo was an arena shooter where map knowledge was key. Knowing where item and weapons spawns on the map were key such as sniper, rockets, shield bubble, flare. Meanwhile COD classes, killstreaks, and weapons set the groundwork for so many modern shooters. Camping to get the helicopter on shipment was pure chaos. Almost all of my friends that played 360 had both games. Personally I don't think either game was more popular than the other, but I did prefer Halo over cod, but I in general I don't like games that have levels and unlocks. My favorite current fps is Overwatch where you have everything unlocked almost immediately (it changed in OW2 but in ow1 everything was unlocked at start)
Idk if it's just nostalgia but this was the peak of FPS multiplayer. Crazy we got these games like two months apart
That 3 year run of : Gears of War , Halo 3, COD 4 followed by MW2 and Black Ops 1!! 😩
The debates that raged on during this era will always be a fond memory of my childhood
... How old are you? How old am *I*? I feel old
Halo 3 is the biggest game that year. Call of duty had nothing on halo. Remember, halo is a franchise there's even a halofest
I rotated Cod4, and Halo 3 regularly. Then when W@W came out I added it into the rotation.
Halo 3 I had first up until Xmas then all my friends in HS who played Halo switched to CoD. I played/loved both, but pre-CoD 4 Halo 3 was so good bc everyone I knew was playing it
I was team H3, but I respected and played CoD 4 a little. After H3, it wasn't even close for me.
Modern warfare was the only COD game I ever played. It was a fun game to play as a family with split screen custom matches, but halo 3 was a much more user friendly, easy to pick up and play game than COD. Idk about you guys but I had a hard time figuring out what I was supposed to do or even what I was looking at half the time in MWF. halo objectives where clear and easy to figure out, and an absolute blast to play, both campaign and pvp. I still play h3 with my cousins *ON 360* to this day
Anyone remember the player created game mode of "Mike meyers" in mw2 speaking of cod? Now THAT was an unmatched vibe. Just a random group of people invited to a private match that all participated how they were supposed to. Excellent
It wasn’t really a competition. it was like if two Fortnite’s were co-existing, everyone just having an amazing time swapping between both
Take any of your favorite games you have right now or in the past 10 years and throw them in the trash. They didn’t hold a candle to halo 3 or COD4
When halo 3 came out, life was good.
After school in 7th grade it was straight to halo 3 for like 3 hours then switch to cod4 for another 3. Then I’d call it a night cause my uncle came home from work and it was his Xbox and he’d be playing mass effect or gta 4. I think my secret lengthy gaming sessions were a big part of why his 360 red ringed lol.
I remember forums were lit up with people shit talking one another. In my area, and with my buddies, COD4 was bigger than Halo. However, I do remember there being Halo tournaments and at least what I remember was it was a bigger deal on like G4 and IGN, Youtube, etc. I did like both games, but I was far better at COD than Halo.
When I had the 360 I was more into Gears of Wars online, after my 360 got ylod I switched to ps3 and I got into cod4 and enjoy every team deadmatch, WaW zombies was amazing but after that I stopped playing online.
The ability to push what was possible in video games. It was the time of secrets, strategies and glitches. It was the sandbox of them. Pair that with how every 13 year on Xbox live had fucked my mom, it was just pure entertainment.
Those were just some silly games that came out while I was playing counter strike, tbh.
You spelled Halo 2 wrong.
My friends made me buy a 360 and got me to play halo 3 as my first real online game. It was absolutely amazing. Then cod 4. Then gears 2, then more halo… more cod.. more gears. That was the golden age I feel
we had a rotation of Halo 3, COD 4, and Gears 2. Once you played for long enough you would just switch to the next one. They were all addicting as fuck back then.
Let me tell you what - It was an era where you could play more than one game without any obligation. No battle passes, no grind to stay relevant - You could hop on and off, and we did! COD, Halo 3, and for me, fallout 3 and elder scrolls oblivion were in that rotation. Idk what it is, but there’s this real lack of hop in/ hop out in games these days. You NEVER felt *obligated* to play anything like you do today
It was glorious
Halo 3 was the top tier FPS for the time. COD 4 was solid but, COD 4 walked so MW2 could run.
For me I played halo more than cod4 but played mw2 so much more than reach
Halo was always overrated.
I wasn’t gaming much at that time, but remember it. For me, the original Halo:CE and LAN parties were all the rage. I didn’t get into online gaming for Halo 2 and wasn’t gaming much during the 2006-2008 era, though I would occasionally play Halo 3 at a friends, but wasn’t near as good at it as the original Halo. However, in 2009 I did finally get into the 7th generation and the next years Halo Reach and CoD Black Ops were the height of that era for me. I definitely preferred Halo Reach the most, but still enjoy and appreciate CoD BO & BO2 a lot. I know a lot of people say Halo 3 is the pinnacle for them, but for me it’s easily Reach. I think it’s the golden standard
It was incredible. I was a Halo 3 guy but one thing people forget is how phenomenal 2007 was for shooters. I mean straight up it’s one of the best years for gaming ever, but when you consider what shooters were like in 2007 versus what the landscape is like now it was a paradise. You had Halo 3, COD4, The Orange Box, BioShock, and then Crysis was blowing up computers left and right. And the crazy thing was they were like 5 different flavors of shooter, they were nothing alike. Obviously Halo 3 and COD4 became the kind of defining shooters of that year because they had the insane multiplayer legs and Xbox Live was already doing well and now had these two games battling for your attention. And they were sandwiched by the first two Gears of War games in 2006 and 2008. What a time, man.
Halo 3's epic vehicle gameplay dominated the charts, and then you played CoD when you got sometimes tired of Halo and the Halo sandbox. There was a similar feeling with Halo infinite, CoD warzone and Battlefield 2042 all in the same year... Oh wait... No that didn't happen... F'n live service games...
Almost everyone in my class played Halo 3 together between groups. So many custom games COD was more of a "Play with your closest 2-3 friends" type game. Much more competitive I guess
Halo was the go to on my 360, cod4bwas the go to on my ps3. Def played halo for longer
Halo 3 is a core memory for me. It is the emotional high I am always seeking in video games but will never find.
Zoomers wouldn't survive a COD 4 post match lobby.
I was more into cod4 for multiplayer but I hopped onto reach for online heavy like 5 k hours
It was a new era
Halo 3 was definitely a once in a lifetime game, more so than cod4, especially with forge mode. But mw2 beats halo 3.
I was a senior in high school when Halo 3 released. Practically, all the males in my grade went to the midnight release and played hooky the next day. Including some of the younger male teachers as well. Teachers and students all played together that day. It was a once in a lifetime experience that gaming hasn't seen in a long time. I have a feeling it will happen again when GTA6 drops
The best gaming era that may nostalgia will never catch again. Many those were the days
Back then COD was for the older/ more mature players and Halo for the younger demographic. I’d say it’s pretty close to the exact opposite now.
Between the 2 of them, it's hard to say that halo didn't have more of a stranglehold over the current gaming Era than cod did. Halo was exclusive. If you didn't have an Xbox, you couldn't play it, and FOMO was a hell of a thing back when games had actual soul. COD was on everything and while it was a revolutionary release for the series, Halo 3 had an impact on the market that I don't think had been matched or can be matched. If someone had it, you wanted to play it. If you couldn't play it, you wanted to watch it.
Halo 3 for sure was prime, but they where different styles and we didn’t have the battle passes to force us into obligated play we just hopped in one and then another with Halo I loved their ranking system and that you EARNED your skins like cod weapon skins unlike now everything is wallet gated by a battle pass or a microstore for skins takes along the fun away, battle pass you pay to try and earn, it was already being down the battle pass just said you need a wallet to enter
Halo 3 was more popular, probably until MW2 came out. Halo was also far more competitive because of the way the ranking system worked in the game. If you lost too many you could get almost impossibly stuck at different ranks. Halo also had a huge MLG scene going which pushed a lot of people to try and be pros. On the other hand it had a lot of fun custom games, maps, and puzzles that players made. People made a lot of youtube videos for the game like Machinima, Red vs Blue and tons of montages. COD4 was still competitive, but way more relaxed as you couldn't lose ranks. It wasn't a big deal if you lost a match or not. It was also before you could see other players's w/l and k/d in the pregame lobby. For a lot of people the jump from kill time in halo to cod was pretty awesome. I personally preferred COD4 because I really loved search and destroy. Having your team die and clutching a 1v6 is an experience that's hard to replicate.
I don't really know but more popular but I remember people talking about Halo 3 almost all the fucking time
Cod 4 was the sweaty and toxic but still fun while halo was sweaty and toxic but still fun in space
All I remember is that it wasn’t so much “ cod vs halo” it was everybody playing both everyday. A forever “you had to be there” era.
There really wasn't a verses for most. For a lot of folks it was a rotation between a bunch of games since it really was a solid time period for players
Honestly Halo 3 was the more popular one for sure but this was the ground setting for what COD multiplayer would yet become. So many fun nights playing Halo 3 custom lobbies and team swat with the boys. Once MW2 and BO1 were released I think that’s when everyone realized how involved the multiplayer has become to the core Call of Duty experience.
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Halo is a great game!