![]() ![]() Using an Apple TV, you can even stream this one in 720p to your lovely TV at home, driving home just how much technical mastery Gameloft has over the iPad hardware.Īn active community keeps the multiplayer worthwhile, although Gameloft is somewhat less active in patrolling servers from opponents gaming the system, and server connections are somewhat unstable. Open the eyes a little further and, of course, the complete lack of originality hits home, but I don’t want to take anything away from this game – especially on the iPad 3, this is beyond even the Vita’s capabilities. Squint and you’ll feel like you’re playing a real AAA-grade shooter. Most impressively, though, the game looks amazing. ![]() The levels are carbon copies and soulless, yes, but they’re designed will well-defined chokepoints and there are some especially well-balanced multiplayer maps. Surprisingly, the game often comes close to the basic features that make a Call of Duty game great – the energy is there, even if the script writing and acting is not. ![]() And just like Call of Duty, the singleplayer game is no more than a tutorial for the multiplayer. There are large-scale firefights, broken up with brief plot sequences, QTE sequences and the occasional corridor to run down. It has to be repeated, though – this is a precise, to the letter, copy of the Call of Duty formula. Despite my distaste for games that shamelessly copy other examples of the genre, and despite Modern Combat shamelessly copying Call of Duty, I’m going to have to admit here that Gameloft has produced the biggest iPad experience to date with Modern Combat 3, and this is a game that is deserving of the popularity it’s found amongst iPad gamers. So Gameloft saw the value in targetting the genre faithful with a ‘new’ FPS franchise. It’s a big, explosive and, importantly, full-featured FPS on a format that doesn’t have the over-abundance of shooters that we see on the ‘main’ consoles. Modern Combat is essentially the Call of Duty of the iPad. As a rule of thumb I don’t like what Gameloft produces as it tends to be technically competent, but soulless and cynical copies of better games, but sometimes Gameloft hits the big time with its franchises. As much as I try, sometimes it’s impossible to avoid Gameloft. ![]()
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