Modern Combat 5 is Now Availble for Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Windows

Gameloft’s latest entry in its first-person shooter series is finally here. As was the case with MC4, there’s a lot to look it with this latest sequel, so this first part of the review focuses primarily on the single player campaign and underlying gameplay mechanics. In that regard, Modern Combat 5: Blackout is an excellent sequel that makes some dramatic improvements to said mechanics while keeping the actual FPS action mostly unchanged.

Visuals have become a huge part of the Modern Combat series and Gameloft raises the bar yet again in this latest sequel. While overall visuals see a nice upgrade in terms of fidelity, Modern Combat 5 seems to put a greater emphasis on supplemental effects such as underwater views, particle/dust filters, explosions, and some nice weather maps. It’s definitely on the short-list of titles to show off to others if you have a current generation device. I was particularly impressed with the framerate, although I’d highly suggest you turn off banner notifications as they would substantially affect the game while they were on screen.

Modern Combat has always placed players in exotic locales, and Blackout continues that trend with missions in Japan and Italy, among other places. A tale that centers around an intense invasion of Japan, combined with covert ops missions, twists and betrayals, I can't say I'm particularly surprised with the actual meat of Blackout's story. Then again, I never expected much of the tale and only hoped it would serve as motivation to continue. Thankfully, it hits that mark well enough.

Highlights of Modern Combat 5: Blackout

§  Four character classes: Assault, Sniper, Heavy, and Recon, each with their own set of skills to upgrade.

§  Unified progression system: One character across both multiplayer and single player missions. Each mission or multiplayer match earns XP that goes towards levelling-up your class and mastering your weapons.

§  Spec-Ops Missions: Short, fun, and objective based. Objectives such as covering your allies, clearing a building, eliminating a single target, and many more!

§  New Single player features: Manually control your sniper rounds in-flight, scouting enemies behind cover with a scanning drone, and reviving downed team members! “MEDIC!”

§  New Squad vs Squad multiplayer: MC5 will let players party up with friends (or your dream team of friendly randoms!) to battle other squads from all over the world.

§  Multiplayer matches of up to 6 v 6: More players, more mayhem! I love the smell of gunpowder in the morning.

§  Two Kill streak packages with 6 different abilities: Airstrike, Bomber, Assistant drone, Auto-turret, EMP, and Recon Helicopter.

§  Global and Squad chat: Discuss tactics with your squad, or just keep up with your friends around the world!

§  Highly Improved Graphics: Real-time shadows, Ragdoll physics, SSAO (‘Screen space ambient occlusion’ for all you techy people!), Soft particles, Spherical harmonics, and many more improvements.

 Availbility:-Gameloft’s Modern Combat 5: Blackout is officially available to download from Google Playhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftM5HM&hl=en-GB @ the price of 390 INR.