On a smaller screen in 2014, you could get away with the graphics on show.

Not that there's much to look at - this definitely still looks like a mobile game. The action feels cramped somehow, with a tiny field-of-view which doesn't let you see too much of the level at any one time. These weapons can then be taken with you into online battles, which features the usual selection of game modes to face off against people in.Įverything here has been done before, and Modern Combat Blackout manages not to do it as well.

Complete enough missions and objectives and you level up, unlocking new classes and weapons as you go, which can also be levelled up simply by killing people with them. Outside of main story missions you've got 'spec ops' side missions to complete, which offer a straightforward objective to complete in areas you've already visited. Missions are kept short and sweet, as in the mobile release, and there's plenty of guns and explosions going off all around you to keep things interesting.

Once you get the buttons right though, it's kind of fun. The controls take some tweaking to get right - having gyroscope aiming and auto-run on by default is baffling, given that neither of these control systems are particularly helpful in the heat of a battle. There's nothing in here that you've not experienced before. You run around each level, shooting dudes, throwing grenades, and trying to score headshots. Modern Combat Blackout's campaign is ridiculous, confusing, and ultimately just a fluffy excuse to shoot as many bad guys in the face as you can. It's a perfectly serviceable shooter, and there's spots of fun to be had amongst its bombastic singleplayer mode, but a formula which worked well on mobile simply hasn't translated well to a console experience. BlazBlue: Central Fiction review - 'Speedy, stylish fighting'.It's always been a mobile series, but now Modern Combat Blackout, the fifth entry, has been ported over to Switch, a console in dire need of more quality first-person shooters.

The Modern Combat series is one of those long-running Gameloft staples that every mobile gamer comes across eventually - there's precious few military shooters on the App Store, after all.

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