It happens every year: a Call of Duty game comes out. This year, Call of Duty will continue on with their trend of the future and release Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Lately, the games have been very futuristic, as the last five games have been set in the near-and far- future. The company hasn't had a modern or past-warfare game since Modern Warfare 3.

Battlefield releases a game about every other year or so, and they are never as successful as Call of Duty games. Call of Duty is simply the more popular franchise, and it helps that they can churn out a new game every year. Battlefield is the more complex game, in which the player can use vehicles, they have to account for the drop of a bullet, and environments are destructible. This is compared to Call of Duty, which is a very fast-paced shooter game with more action, but less realism. In a modern gaming culture, the fast-paced style of gaming is simply the more popular option for most players.

Although that trend will stay (and likely keep Call of Duty ahead of Battlefield), the two games are separating drastically this year, and to Battlefield's benefit. Call of Duty will once again have a futuristic game with robots, power suits, and now space, but Battlefield will have something almost untouched: World War One.

The game will be called simply, Battlefield 1, but it will break new grounds. The Great War has only had one truly successful game, called Verdun (named after a village in WW1), but with the reveal trailer for Battlefield coming out this month, the hype for the game, and the era, is very much there for gamers. If you read the comments section of the trailers for both games on youtube, there are plenty of comparisons between the two, with Battlefield almost always being the winner of the comparison. Gamers are not tired of Call of Duty as a franchise, but the repeated use of the futuristic game is becoming redundant and vanilla. Call of Duty is also releasing a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare remastering alongside Infinite Warfare, which many gamers are excited about, but angry that they have to purchase Infinite Warfare with it. The comments section of youtube will show the rage about this, and how Call of Duty seems more interested in the money than their players (not saying that Battlefield doesn't do so either, but they seem to make it less obvious this time around).

So, while Call of Duty will start to get old by staying in the future, Battlefield will bring an exciting newness by going to the past. Battlefield should expect to get more gamers this year, and maybe even take some Call of Duty converts while they're at it (I'm a former Call of Duty kid, but I changed sides when Battlefield 3 came out).

Which game will win your heart? Here are the two reveal trailers so you can take your pick. I love the music choice for both of them, by the way.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare:

Battlefield 1: