game comparison

Asteroids, 1979:

Asteroids, a game released in the arcade in 1979 was a revolutionary game that really started off the simple 'survival' genre.

The game was made for the PC platform and was a very simple game set in a 2d arena, the game is a sidescroller game and your objective is to destory as many asteroids as you can while trying to survive, the more asteroids you destroy the more points you get in the final result.
you get 3 lives to try anddo as well as you can and people can very easily get addicted to this game.

The game is done so that when you shoot the bigger asteroids the then they split up into smaller asteroids which then split up into smaller ones. i would reccomend that you focus down each asteroid without shooting others, this will make the game easier for you.
the graphic style of this game is very simple, it is just a black 'space' background with white outline for the space ship, score, and asteroids.


Call of duty black ops:
released 18th of november 2010

focusing on Dead ops arcade

Dead ops arcade is a birds eye view version of the normal call of duty zombie mode, the reason i have compared this to asteroids is because it has the same base concept to it, Survival, it is basically like all other birds eye survival games, you get power ups from killing the creatures (in this case zombies) and you get other things like new weapons from the zombies too.

Call of Duty Black ops was made for the Xbox 360, PC and PS3 and was a very successful game like all the others in the call of duty series. The game mode dead ops arcade was a 3d birds eye view game that was unlocked by completing the call of duty campaign, the main aim of the game mode was to survive as long as you can and gain as many points as you can.
there are also things like mini bosses that add to your points because they are worth more to kill. The game has a realistic graphic style to it because it is a zoomed out birds eye version of the call of duty graphics.


Overall id you strip dead ops arcade right down to the basics it is a character model shooting things trying to get him, the same as asteroids so i would say these to games are very similer but dead ops has just been developed more.