Review: Call Of Duty Mobile (Android/PC)
Play on a variety of classic maps through head-to-head competitive Multiplayer, complete with a variety of game modes, powerful Scorestreaks, and tide-turning Operator Skills. Plus, test your survival skills in a made-for-mobile Battle Royale mode featuring 100 players as you fight across the land, sea, and in the air!
Pros:
- Console quality graphics.
- 1.8gb download size.
- Full touchscreen controls on phone, mouse/keyboard on PC.
- Pac is played through Gameloop (official Tencent app for playing their games)
- Two modes- Multiplayer and Battle Royale.
- Free to play.
- Season pass-free tier then chargeable tier for extra loot.
- Controls-(2 types) Simple: point and it automatically shoots when in range. Advanced: have ADS come up when going to shoot, press button to shoot and be more hands-on.
- The control setup is separate for Battle Royale and Multiplayer.
- Basic settings-aim assist/fast throw grenades/fixed joystick/ADS controls for each individual gun type/Gyroscope/auto sprint/slide.
- Graphics quality and frame rate-low/medium/high/very high.
- Sensitivity sliders for each gun type/overall/when scoped and invert axis again per gun/vehicle/on foot.
- Friends list-invite to the game and send weapon Exp.
- Adverts-(optional) watch up to 5 videos for 5 crates.
- Full stats and online leaderboards.
- Profile- name/badges/border/avatar.
- Earn EXP and level up to earn new perks and weapons.
- Daily/weekly/timed events.
- Daily login bonus.
- Loadouts-5 slots and can rename them.
- Battle Royale load out-equip any earned skins.
- Battle Royale-6 classes Scout/Clown/Medic/Ninja/Defender/Mechanic. Each has a special ability that charges over time.
- Emote/spray wheel.
- Battle Royale modes- first person/3rd person. Solo/duo/teams.
- Multiplayer modes-Frontline/Team deathmatch/Domination/Search and Destroy/Vs Ai.
- VS Ai gives exp but at a much lower rate.
- 9 kill streaks-stealth chopper/UAV/counter UAV/VTOL/airdrop/predator missile/sentry gun/hunter-killer drone.
- Weapons-earn/use exp tokens to unlock new attachments/perks.
- Clan support.
- Ranked mode for both Multiplayer and Battle Royale.
- In-game chat and text.
- Clear on-screen buttons.
- Battle Royale works a lot like Apex Legends. You jump together/can collect dog tags and revive teammates/airdrops/boss encounters/upgrade terminals for your ability/ping items and locations.
- Earn in-game credits to buy skins from the store.
- Cod points-premium currency with real money to buy skins and loot crates.
- Battle Royale-auto pickup and equip system but you can manually swap attachments or take full control.
- Battle Royale supports 100 players.
- Facebook integration for cross-save between devices.
- PC and phone players are separate.
- Everything in-game has skins to unlock and equip.
- Different player models including classic characters like Ghost.
- Duplicate items from loot crates give credits.
- It works really well.
- Smooth.
- The PC version has video capture and photo mode built-in.
- The phone version has a screenshot button.
- All vehicles are in the game from boats to ATV to choppers.
- Fast loading in multiplayer.
- Good selection of maps both new and classic.
- Easy to get into.
Cons:
- It only uses Facebook at the moment for cross-save and social media sharing.
- No controller support. (apparently, it’s being worked on, was there at launch briefly)
- No Google Play achievements.
- Can’t reroll challenges/dailies.
- Needs more battle pass challenges or boot camp needs to come back.
- The last kill of the game looks broken and delayed.
- Any lag is a straight-up game-breaker.
- Doing emotes/sprays are awkward.
- More maps.
- Long setup time for Battle Royale.
- Battle Royale has a load of pop-ups when looting which obscures your view.
- Easy to get duplicates of skins even when you have bugger all.
- In-app purchases are expensive.
- Graphics - 9/109/10
- Sound - 9/109/10
- Accessibility - 8/108/10
- Length - 9/109/10
- Fun Factor - 9/109/10
Summary
Activision has entrusted its flagship title to Tencent. This is a marriage in heaven! Never have I played a mobile game that looks and feels like a console game. It is almost scary how much game is in here and before you pull the trigger you get PC levels of customisation for graphics/sound/controls and for that alone it elevates expectations. I can confirm however that gameplay is even better than the settings. Multiplayer is fast and furious, Battle Royale takes a lot of inspiration from Apex Legends and builds on it, polishing it to the next level. I mean it has the whole respawn a downed team mate but here you scan the tags on yourself then a timed plane comes in and drops the rezzed players. You have abilities that can be upgraded through a terminal on the map. You have all the controls and features the big boy consoles have albeit in a much smaller layout on screen. It can be daunting at first getting used to the different ways to play but having the auto fire really takes a lot of stress out of the game. I liken it to auto accelerate in games… It just frees up a finger for other actions. I had a few rough games, to begin with as I played with the layouts and found which worked best. I want to take this time to say this review is based purely on how it is now, I fear with its popularity that greed might slip in, updates are slow as it is and this only heightens the tension of what’s in store for us. As it is I am thoroughly impressed by performance to gameplay and it really is one of the best mobile games I have played. The touchscreen is fine, mouse and keyboard are better but I await controller support. In short, it maintains the high standard of the console games and gives us one of the best battle Royale games to date.
