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Call of Duty Strike Team
Hi everyone. So Call of Duty has finally been released for Android
and it takes a slightly hybrid approach to the usual Call of Duty formula.
It's a first person shooter but it also has
a tactical shooter element which with a kind of real time strategy game
going on. Now you can switch between these two modes at any time
and realistically it kind of adds a new dimension
to the Call of Duty games. It does fix a few things that
sometimes don't work so well on mobile but it introduces a whole host of new problems
as well.
So the idea is you are a strike team. Call of Duty Strike Team
You are sent into particular missions to retrieve intell, kill somebody,
do whatever is required. There is a loose story
linking all of this together that involves a from what we can tell, a
faction of the Russians being
naughty and trying to take over the world and destroy things, the usual. Now
like I say, the game allows you to switch between first-person
and tactical view on the fly. You simply press a button in the top right hand
corner. Call of Duty Strike Team
Now part of the frustration with this game comes from the gyroscopic
controls
which are optional, you can turn them on or off but we always like to play a game based on
how it's suggested by the developers as we play and the game makes it clear that this
option is available.
Unfortunately it doesn't work very well with gyroscopic turned on.
Turn it off. Now what you can see on the left and right at the screen are two
small
targeting markers and those allow you to flick very quickly in first person view
between various targets. The problem
is it doesn't work very well it's quite buggy.
You'll see some footage of that in a moment. But
overall it's an interesting concept for a game.
The graphics are OK, they're not brilliant or anything, they're OK.
But it almost feels like they should have focused on producing one type of game
well Call of Duty Strike Team
rather than attempting to do quite a few. So there's the targeting system going wrong
and attempting to lock on to
a wall even though there are some guys directly in front me who tried to shoot
me.
The number of times I've died due to bugs and glitches in this game is
almost unacceptable, especially
when this is a premium title costing around
£4 and then it has in-app purchases. Great!
So unfortunately if you want to be able to buy things like health packs Call of Duty Strike Team
and so on you're going to have to use the currency. If you haven't got enough currency
you're going to have to buy an in-app purchase to get more in-game currency.
Unfortunately when you've got a game that is this buggy
you die an awful lot so it's a bit of a
nasty trade-off in my opinion, to have a game that you're paying a premium rate
on mobile for
then has in-app purchases and then is laden with bugs
that mean you lock onto the wrong thing, get stuck in doorways all sorts of
stuff that means that you die and you know, you're going to have to pay money.
There are some really cool moments in this game, like I say, they've done a
great job at kind of putting a package together here
that feels like Call of Duty but if only they'd focused on getting a great first
person shooter or a great
real time strategy game or tactical shooter game then it might have turned out an
awful lot better. Call of Duty Strike Team
Unfortunately it just feels like a bit of a confusing mess at times.
The first person shooter stuff works well
apart from the gyroscope and obviously locking onto things in the wrong way
but then the game becomes too difficult in some places to progress without using a
tactical view. Tactical view is good on its own
but the game becomes too difficult in places where you then have to go into
first person mode Call of Duty Strike Team
and all of this kind of leads to a game that doesn't feel
very well polished, or, you know, well-executed in any one of the areas it's
trying to do quite well at. Overall there are better tactical shooters and there are
better first-person shooters.
Can we look at this game because it's you know, one of the first ones to really do
both simultaneously and say well you know it's great at doing that?
Well yes to a certain extent we can but the number of bugs are
just frustrating unfortunately. For instance
literally while I've been doing this review Activision have released a 1.98gig
patch for Call of Duty on Android
which has me just shaking my head a little bit wondering well why didn't you
release that yesterday Call of Duty Strike Team
when you released the game? But anyway, and also why it's causing
the full download on everyone is beyond me but there's the whole host of different
weapons you can get as well.
Obviously you can unlock those using in game currency.
You may have to if you want guns quickly buy some in-game currency,
you can upgrade your armour, buy perks and so on, and all of it feels very Call of Duty
but I'm afraid it's not a great game overall in my opinion.
Call of Duty Strike Team