Modern Combat: Domination Review | JPS

First Person Shooters are a very common aspect of the gaming world. Chances are you can name well over 20 of them on your fingers and toes without having to stop and think about it. A nice chunk of those are games that some gamers hold close to their hearts. Battlefield, Bioshock, and Call of Duty are just a few of the shooters that come to mind when you mention the series.

Gameloft, the creators of the Modern Combat series, have released the third entry in their shooter series on the Playstation Network with the hopes that it can stand alongside other heavy-hitting titles and earn its place among the ranks. The first two titles the company made were only found on the iPhone and Android. This is their first attempt at an online FPS game on the home console. Did they hit the target, or did the shot fly wide? Here are the Hots and Nots of Modern Combat:Domination.

[easto1a]

Great title

[hesido]

The economy in this game kills it for me. I'm an average player with around 1.40 kill/death., and I can very rarely get the taste of better gun, once every 10 respawns or so. If you spend a single dime on anything on respawn, you cannot accumulate money. I was an adamant supporter of this game but now I think it is a waste of effort. The economy and the connection issues put me off from this game.

Dieing with 2100 in your wallet, having killed 3-4 people, leaves you the same money as dieing instantly when you have 100 left from your spawn purchases. So you cannot spend it even on mp5, if you want to accumulate money. The alternative being, getting an mp5, and doing a 15 killing spree, which would earn you good money. Good luck with that, tho.

One team deathmatch game, I kept on buying mp5's and armours, doing 2-3 kill sprees some times, and ended up with being the top player with 24k:16d . But you know what, I never had the money to even try any other gun. It is not as if an ak47 is a nuclear device. But you are just not allowed to use it if you want to keep on your game with an Mp5, instead of trying to scavenge everything by starting with a handgun, which is the only way an average player can accumulate money, and which is only possible in deathmatch modes, otherwise the game ends before you make enough money.

Verdict: If you can maintain a 10:1 kill ratio, you can enjoy the game.
If you maintain a 2:1 kill ratio which is very respectable, you are not allowed to taste better guns, unless you maintain that ratio with a handgun without spending anything. Which is what I have to do, and it is too hard to be any fun. You have to be fun for the average player along with fps gods, for the game to succeed.

[admiralvic]

I agree with you completely. I can maintain a 3:1 but even just an unlucky death or a bad kid on your team thinking Pistol + armor = all they can do, really hurts it for me.

[MightyMark427]

to me this is like a budgeted Call of Duty online! Cheap but good!

[thebudgetgamer]

my kind of game.

[andrew171994]

its not like cod its more counter strike

[ps3rider]

did u try it ?

[thebudgetgamer]

i did, the gameplay is really solid. it feels like a heavier cod. if they release map packs every once and a while for like five buck i'd be all over it. plus you cant beat the price.

[ps3rider]

That is sound interesting specially its for 8 us dollar

[Close_Second]

What I'm most impressed with is that for a game that is priced not much higher than a Mini that the lobby actually lists the games being played and what your connection is like to them. Wow.

Makes you wonder why full priced games can't implement such basic yet extremely useful functionality.

[Yehshuah]

omg. this is just another title that shows how desperate non talented developers are trying to buy the fans with another fps online game. if there's anything this generation has proven, it's that developers care about nothing but marketing guns to consumers. sadly, it works to the point that the whole industry imitates them.

[Close_Second]

How in hell is it marketing guns to consumers?

In New Zealand you can't even get your hands on automatic weapons, soon you won't even be able to buy air pistols legally.

[dead_eye]

wasn't keen on the demo. Tried it with and without move and didn't enjoy it with either. Bring on Killzone 3

[Dazel]

@ Hesido. I could afford an M16 on my second round, its only $3000. I'm an average gamer like you, Black Ops K/D only just over 1:1. Also the MP5 isn't half bad anyway.

Played Demolition and it feels very Counter Strike which is no bad thing, will defo be buying it soon.