Though you pretty much are an army of one, there are several periods in the game where you’re in combat along with your squad mates and feel part of a greater war. To Gameloft’s credit, your cookie-cutter NPC squad mates are actually decent shots and will kill enemies for you, and if you’re really in a bind, you can use them as bullet sponges while you cower in a corner and pick off stragglers. By the third mission, the game controls were some of the most intuitive I’ve played on the iPhone. Capable players will essentially move to a good combat location and then fire exclusively while using the zoom function. If you need more precision in your firing, there is a zoom crosshairs button in the corner. You move with your joystick, allowing the player to strafe (essential for FPSs), and aim by flicking your finger across the touchscreen. Sandstorm’s control scheme is why-didn’t-I-think-of-it-first kind of simple. Big titles from yesteryear such asĭuke Nukem stumbled in their introduction to the iPhone platform, but Gameloft may have finally broken the code. Developers are struggling to produce a decent set of first-person shooter controls for the iPhone. While the plot, voice acting, and dialogue are in rough draft form, the combat is much more refined. His quirk is to consistently call your squad “knuckleheads” and then, in a poorly developed plot twist, betray your unit in the last scene. There’s also a low-ranking soldier named “Ryan” in the game, leaving the only squad mate you have who isn’t a character from another movie or game your superior officer, Captain Jones. Now you must find him before he does something bad, save your squad mates, and collect every cliché possible on your way to saving the day.Īny game that calls its protagonist “Chief,” has a heavy weapons guy named “Dozer,” and features a Jamie Fox-lookalike named-yes-“Fox” isn’t just nodding to convention, it’s wallowing in other people’s ideas like a pig in mud. You’re tasked with stopping an unnamed terrorist group on your first mission-not surprisingly your unit is ambushed just when you’ve tracked down the head bad guy. Modern Combat: Sandstorm, you play as a US soldier named Jones, also sometimes referred to as “Chief,” who has just returned to his fighting unit in an unnamed Middle-Eastern country.
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