The reason why people say sprint works in CoD is because the low kill times, but I actually think it’s worse then halo’s.
I don’t own CoD but me and about 14 other friends go over to my cousin’s house every so often and we have this competition. We sprint around a set course in the map and try to rack up as many kills as we can, you know since people argue CoD has skill. In this group we have 5 Halo freaks (myself included), 3 COG warriors, a WOW nerd, 3 GTA players, and 4 CoD gardening tools (h.o.e.s) (all these nicknames we refer to each other because we were like 11 when me and my cousin came up with them). So we go in order of Halo, CoD, COG, WOW, GTA, CoD, Halo, Halo, COG, GTA, CoD, Halo, CoD, COG, GTA, and Halo.
We do this about 2 rotations, which takes about 10 games. The best player is my cousin then it’s me. In our last competition we averaged almost 14 kills per death as a whole, (considering that the GTA and WOW players aren’t used to this style of gameplay) but in each game it’s as follows 20 KD for Halo, 13 for COG, 4 for WOW, 6 for GTA, and 22 for CoD. As a total for each, Halo had 200 kills and 10 deaths, COG had 78 kills and 6 deaths, 8 kills for 2 deaths, 36 kills for 6 kills, and CoD had 176 kills for 8 deaths. In total 498 kills and 36 deaths. The highest KD was my cousin with a whooping 80 kills in 2 deaths. Last time we had one (which was yesterday in fact), I asked my friends why they thought we/they got so many kills, since in Halo gears and GTA we never get as high. Every joked that it was because they and we were all naturally good or the game was easy but the most jaw dropping thing was from the WOW player who said, “Because we use our strategies or tactics from our other games and use them in this game.” Which sort of everyone stop for a second and think about it, the COG players said they were playing like Gears because they tried to get behind cover several times or try to roll around, the GTA players said they just acted like they were playing with 2x speed and super jump, and the halo guys, (myself as well) all said we were acting like we were playing SWAT with a slight damage boost . The CoD players argued that playing it like other games wasn’t good but the top 3 next KD were from Halo players, 30 by me, 20 and 20. The CoD gardening tools argued that they only had 2 lives and needed to get a feel for the game first, which we countered that we didn’t play the game at all or at least as much as the CoD players and weren’t as familiar with the controls or mechanics. So we all agreed that next time we’d play both Gears of War, Halo 5 customs and GTA Death match to test out the fluency of each other and the CoD players argument that the other games were just as easy.
Of course this doesn’t prove anything but I think it’s at least would be a minor and good indicator of how different other players adapt to gaming and slightly prove which game is “easiest” and which game has the “best” mechanics.