What doesn’t say a lot is Modern Combat 5: Blackout‘s story. I’m almost playing it more than Deer Hunter 2014, which is saying a lot. I’ve played it on my iPad Mini, Nvidia’s new Shield Tablet - I’ve even got it loaded on my massive red Nokia Lumia 1520 Windows Phone. Over the past couple of weeks the game’s barely left my side. Oddly enough, being so easy to put down makes it incredibly difficult to stop playing Modern Combat 5. There’s no activity here that can’t be completed in the span of a bathroom visit or a smoke break. With story missions sliced up into four or five minute chunks, side missions that play out like sniping or breaching mini-games and quick multiplayer matches, this is the ultimate quick-fix first-person shooter. Published by Gameloft.If Activision weren’t so protective of their property and Metal Gear hadn’t already swiped the subhead, Call of Duty: Portable Ops would have been a much better name for Modern Combat 5: Blackout. Modern Combat 5: Blackout is out now for Android and iOS.But whether aping games that are so derivative, incoherent and aggressive is a good thing depends on your tolerance for the genre, and for some ropey mobile controls.

Ultimately, the result is uncanny – a superbly accurate copy of Modern Warfare on a far tinier screen than normal. But no such luck for iPhone or iPad users yet. But the game still features far too many 'oops I just hit grenade instead of shoot' moments and too much time looking around at the floor, or slowly moving sights in on an enemy while they pepper you.Īndroid gamers at least get to use 'HID' gamepads for controls – although this means an extra cost. Transferring games which normally take all ten fingers to control and a gamepad honed through decades of design iterations to a screen and two proddy fingers is a thankless task, no doubt. On top of that, MC5 adds a specifically mobile wrinkle too – its control schemes. Horrifically steep learning curve online, playing against those who've already invested lots of time grinding up their weapons and class stats? Check. Endless room/corridor/room single-player repetition? Check. Unfortunately, visual and technical elements are not the only things carried across from classic console shooters. As well as the graphics, there's the amount of single-player missions, the multi-player and the plethora of side-quests, weapons upgrades and loadout options available also. That's not just talking in terms of visuals – although they're the most immediately impressive thing about the game.

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