Or just hang out in global chat and make a nuisance of yourself. Or join a squad and take on challenges as a group. Maybe you want to participate in daily global challenges, where getting the most headshots or multiplayer wins during a certain time span can score extra experience points. Or going through every story, Spec Ops and multiplayer mission on the map in order to unlock further mayhem.

The point is yeah, there is a story, but it’s not really worth caring about.īetter to concern yourself with choosing your loadout class and earning experience to unlock new perks, weapons and accessories.

Anyway, betrayal, evil intentions, cyber attacks - at one point Phoenix says “Don’t you see, Roux? They’re trying to start fucking World War 3!” I hope I haven’t spoiled anything. The player’s character, Phoenix, is involved with a private military company that’s somehow betrayed him, and now the only person he can trust is his supervisor, Commander Bodysuit.

As with just about everything Modern Combat related, the narrative is pieced together from other games in the military shooter genre. What doesn’t say a lot is Modern Combat 5: Blackout‘s story. I’m almost playing it more than Deer Hunter 2014, which is saying a lot. I’ve played it on my iPad Mini, Nvidia’s new Shield Tablet - I’ve even got it loaded on my massive red Nokia Lumia 1520 Windows Phone. Over the past couple of weeks the game’s barely left my side. Oddly enough, being so easy to put down makes it incredibly difficult to stop playing Modern Combat 5. There’s no activity here that can’t be completed in the span of a bathroom visit or a smoke break. With story missions sliced up into four or five minute chunks, side missions that play out like sniping or breaching mini-games and quick multiplayer matches, this is the ultimate quick-fix first-person shooter. If Activision weren’t so protective of their property and Metal Gear hadn’t already swiped the subhead, Call of Duty: Portable Ops would have been a much better name for Modern Combat 5: Blackout.

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