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7/14/2014 10:03:14 PM
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CoD most "Popular", Halo is still the Icon
So I was just looking through the BBC website and a article appeared about somebody talking about their top 5 games, the picture accompanying the article was the Master Chief.
It seems even though everybody and their grandma knows about Call of Duty, Halo still has something CoD does not, the eye and memory of an entire Generation and is a generational Icon like Mario and Sonic before.
Do you you think Call of Duty could ever claim the same privilege that Halo has or is their no character for people to identify with preventing it to be lifted to a similar position?
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1 ReplyEdited by Xiphos119: 7/14/2014 11:24:19 PMI don't think Call of Duty has that central figure they need to be the face of the franchise. Sure they have characters like Price, Woods, and Mason, but they only appear in a handful of games, and it's generally not the character you play as. Furthermore, the box art is always a miscellaneous soldier, it's more of a symbol than an actual character. Sure you can argue the Chief is miscellaneous because he wears armor and hides his face, but he's not Random Soldier 125. I'd argue the helmet actually makes him more recognizable and iconic, somewhat like a stormtrooper in Star Wars. I think out of the companies making Call of Duty, Treyarch is by far setting the standard of having a character you can identify for the most part. That being said, I don't think they're quite there yet, and they may never be. They're making their characters more unique, but by not adding them to the box art or showing more third person cut scenes they're hurting their ability to make an identifiable character.
