Instead hardcore multiplayer favourite Counter-Strike is the primary influence.The two previous Modern Combat games on smartphones are some of the most accomplished for those formats. It’s not explicitly a Call Of Duty clone though, despite what the name may imply.

So it’s a crying shame they aren’t allowed to make something of their own.As you might guess from our preamble this game does not represent that long deserved break from high tech brass rubbing. On a technical level their games are excellent, consistently amongst the very best on smartphones. What does upset us is that there are clearly a lot of talented developers at Gameloft. From Final Fantasy XIII to Halo and SoulCalibur, if it’s been a financial success for someone else then you can guarantee it’s only a matter of time before Gameloft copy it.But again we can’t help but pity the people that have to spend their days trying to replicate someone else’s work. Cloning other people’s games is as old as the games industry itself, but compared to Gameloft the developers at Capcom’s mobile division are rank amateurs.Gameloft is one of the biggest and most profitable makers of mobile games in the world and yet almost every one of their titles is a blatant clone of someone else’s. Although there was no argument at all that Capcom was trying to copy someone else’s work we primarily felt pity for the game makers, not anger.

Modern Combat: Domination (PS3) – look familiar?Īs far as some readers are concerned we didn’t take a hard enough line with Capcom’s ‘Splosion Man rip-off MaXplosion.

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