

There’s a single player “story” mode, but it’s utter, incomprehensible, insultingly generic nonsense, and is broken down into missions that are over in what feels like seconds.

Modern Combat is that philosophy towards the military shooter genre, driven by the likes of Call of Duty or Battlefield… a genre that I have issues at the best of times, let alone adding “hollow pastiche” to the list of criticisms.īlackout’s main focus is in the multiplayer. It also focuses purely on aesthetics, aiming to get the games looking as close to the ones they plagiarised – sorry, were inspired by – while never bothering to hire creative writers or level designers to repeat what it was about those original games that was actually worth meriting.Īs a result, Gameloft games are always technically competent, but hollow, shallow, and meaningless.

The company takes popular ideas that other developers and publishers have pioneered, cribs them wholesale, and then dumps them for free (or close to free, but of course always with exploitative microtransactions) on mobile devices. Gameloft represents a lot of things that I find genuinely offensive about big business game development.
