Review: Modern Combat: Blackout (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Matt S.

Gameloft represents a lot of things that I find genuinely offensive about big business game development. The company takes popular ideas that other developers and publishers have pioneered, cribs them wholesale, and then dumps them for free (or close to free, but of course always with exploitative microtransactions) on mobile devices. It also focuses purely on aesthetics, aiming to get the games looking as close to the ones they plagiarised - sorry, were inspired by - while never bothering to hire creative writers or level designers to repeat what it was about those original games that was actually worth meriting.

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