modern combat 5: blackout android shooter games

It’s still packed with cliched, familiar shooter element but at least there’s a greater effort to give single player campaign a little more depth.

These smaller missions can involve clearing rooms of enemies in bullet time, or covering other members of your unit with a sniper rifle or a gatling gun. The new Spec Ops mode mixes things up further. Initial missions can feel repetitive but it doesn’t take too long before there’s a bit more variety. Your amazing resilience to gunfire at close range and quick recovery powers are the clearest indicators that the focus here is on fun and not realism. There are four to five missions at each conflict zone, all bite-sized and ideal for dipping in and out to play. Taking on single player, the story centres around Caydan Phoenix (yes, that is his name) and his team tackling the terrorist group known as the World Liberation Army wreaking havoc across locations in Venice, Italy and Japan. All fighting styles can be customized, including specific features on guns to make taking out the enemy more brutal and satisfying. Assault, Heavy, Recon and Sniper can be gradually unlocked as you progress through the game. That means you can earn medals, XP and unlockables to get everything you need in the game. But Gameloft goes some way to balancing that irritating element with the decision to dump in-app purchases. One annoying factor is the fact you need to be online just to play single player mode. With single and multiplayer modes you are breaching into familiar territory, but there are enough new features to keep things feeling fresh. Effects such as water droplets that splash up onto the screen, improved dynamic lighting and more destructible backdrops will really push top-end phones. On the Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Nvidia Shield, it’s not an entirely glossy splendour as there are some blocky areas, but more detailed and interesting environments make a difference. Just like Call of Duty and Battlefield, developer Gameloft prides itself on going big in the graphics department. Graphics are still as polished as they were in Modern Combat 4 Zero Hour, and while a storyline based on going toe-to-toe with terrorists is hardly original, the improved multiplayer and enjoyable single campaign still makes it one of the finest shooters to play on a smaller screen. Modern Combat 5: Blackout is as the name suggests, the fifth instalment in the first person shooter franchise delivering another slice of Call of Duty-inspired action for iOS, Android and Windows Phone smartphones and tablets. Available now on Android, iOS and Windows Phone (Reviewed on Galaxy S5 and Nvidia Shield)

Modern combat 5: blackout android shooter games