Modern Combat: domination
Matthew Cash
On your iDevice, I'm sure you've seen the Modern Combat games. Cheap, but decent enough clones of other games to make it worth the purchase. Well, this is NOTHING like that.
I got the demo which permits you 45 minutes of playing time while actually inside of a match. Fine, I'll find a match. "The room is full". I got that message 12 times in a row. That's not the end of it, either. "Connection to host lost". Good 8 more times which is stupid because my connection is fast as hell. I finally got into a match only to find that- whoops- connection to the host has been lost. So I continue on for the next five years and finally get into a match.
The first thing I noticed was that this "Boom and Bust" game mode is atrocious. Basically, the Special Forces are supposed to keep the Mercenaries from launching a missile. But when you die, you don't respawn. I know this happens in a lot of Search and Destroy matches in other games and it pisses me off just as much. Instead, you sit there waiting for the rest of either team to FUCKING DIE so you can play.
Finally, I got my chance. I started off the round in a screen similar to Counter-Strike where you buy weapons and all that good shit. YOu have to use money, which you get by kills and your team winning the round. So I picked up the cheap MP5 and went running with another teammate. We finally find an enemy and I start to aim down my sights, going for the headshot. Mind you, the sensitivity feels kinda fucky, so it's a bitch to get used to, making aiming a unnecessary pain in the ass. Anyway, I line it up and shot 6 times when the guy was standing still and not a single shot hit. HOW? IT'S AT YOUR HEAD, DUMBASS! As if that wasn't enough, he turned his attention to me and start firing. Looking for the nearest cover, I ducked behind a wall and some crates that were stacked up behind it. The guy shot at me, but couldn't get a clear shot. Somehow, despite shooting far away from me, he managed to kill me through all of that cover. The hit detection is, without a doubt, the worst I've EVER seen out of a game. I played through the rest of the match, very pissed.
A tried for another match. After going through the next 10 minutes of trying to find a match, I finally found it. Of course, the demo only lets you play that one shitty map and even shittier mode. No Team Deathmatch, no Capture the Flag, NOTHING else. This was the final straw. It put me into a match where it was the last round, meaning it made me watch my teammates while I couldn't respawn on the last round. What a gigantic waste of my precious fucking time.
Presentation-wise, it looks fine. Worse than Battlefield 1943, but not bad. It looks about $8 material, as it should. The guns sound very similar and the map in which we played was uninspired and boring.
Such a shame, too. The minute I heard about this, I knew it must be a great value at $8 and was looking forward to buying it. Little did I know that this would be shit stain on the online gaming world and it stands as one of the biggest letdowns I've ever seen. Gameloft should stick to iDevices as they've shown me that they're too incapable of finding matches, making good maps, decent sounding weapons, or a usable hit detection. Angry Birds is worth more than $15 and that's free on the Android phones! This game isn't even worth $2, let alone 4 times that. Piss- I mean, pass on this game.
Oh, and if I had to rate this turd, I'd give it no worse than a 0.75, the .75 being because the graphics suffice for $8.
On your iDevice, I'm sure you've seen the Modern Combat games. Cheap, but decent enough clones of other games to make it worth the purchase. Well, this is NOTHING like that.
I got the demo which permits you 45 minutes of playing time while actually inside of a match. Fine, I'll find a match. "The room is full". I got that message 12 times in a row. That's not the end of it, either. "Connection to host lost". Good 8 more times which is stupid because my connection is fast as hell. I finally got into a match only to find that- whoops- connection to the host has been lost. So I continue on for the next five years and finally get into a match.
The first thing I noticed was that this "Boom and Bust" game mode is atrocious. Basically, the Special Forces are supposed to keep the Mercenaries from launching a missile. But when you die, you don't respawn. I know this happens in a lot of Search and Destroy matches in other games and it pisses me off just as much. Instead, you sit there waiting for the rest of either team to FUCKING DIE so you can play.
Finally, I got my chance. I started off the round in a screen similar to Counter-Strike where you buy weapons and all that good shit. YOu have to use money, which you get by kills and your team winning the round. So I picked up the cheap MP5 and went running with another teammate. We finally find an enemy and I start to aim down my sights, going for the headshot. Mind you, the sensitivity feels kinda fucky, so it's a bitch to get used to, making aiming a unnecessary pain in the ass. Anyway, I line it up and shot 6 times when the guy was standing still and not a single shot hit. HOW? IT'S AT YOUR HEAD, DUMBASS! As if that wasn't enough, he turned his attention to me and start firing. Looking for the nearest cover, I ducked behind a wall and some crates that were stacked up behind it. The guy shot at me, but couldn't get a clear shot. Somehow, despite shooting far away from me, he managed to kill me through all of that cover. The hit detection is, without a doubt, the worst I've EVER seen out of a game. I played through the rest of the match, very pissed.
A tried for another match. After going through the next 10 minutes of trying to find a match, I finally found it. Of course, the demo only lets you play that one shitty map and even shittier mode. No Team Deathmatch, no Capture the Flag, NOTHING else. This was the final straw. It put me into a match where it was the last round, meaning it made me watch my teammates while I couldn't respawn on the last round. What a gigantic waste of my precious fucking time.
Presentation-wise, it looks fine. Worse than Battlefield 1943, but not bad. It looks about $8 material, as it should. The guns sound very similar and the map in which we played was uninspired and boring.
Such a shame, too. The minute I heard about this, I knew it must be a great value at $8 and was looking forward to buying it. Little did I know that this would be shit stain on the online gaming world and it stands as one of the biggest letdowns I've ever seen. Gameloft should stick to iDevices as they've shown me that they're too incapable of finding matches, making good maps, decent sounding weapons, or a usable hit detection. Angry Birds is worth more than $15 and that's free on the Android phones! This game isn't even worth $2, let alone 4 times that. Piss- I mean, pass on this game.
Oh, and if I had to rate this turd, I'd give it no worse than a 0.75, the .75 being because the graphics suffice for $8.