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Lately, the autumn period coincides with an increasingly large number of first-person shooter wars, which can steal even Game loft. If fact, if the PC and console should do with the recent Medal of Honor and the fresh publication of Call of Duty: Black Ops, the Apple device may rely on a heavyweight like Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus, the sequel to the Modern Combat: Sandstorm, which is so popular last year.

The French developer and manufacturer has never shone for the originality factor in its many proposals for iPhone and iPad, while maintaining a very high standard of quality always dealt with in any kind (sports, action, platform), has always preferred to play it safe referring to best-selling shooter also in other platforms. NOVA closely recalled the epic story of Halo 2 and Modern Combat: Black Pegasus does the same with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which remains in effect the title of reference for this highly anticipated sequel.

We tried the version of the game iPad however, apart from the different video resolution, and shares across all versions of content for iPhone and iPod Touch. The single player campaign has taken about five hours at difficult level, not so much (even less if you choose will be the average level), but counting the sale price and even lower values ​​reported recently in other productions of well thickness ( see Medal of Honor), we can not complain at all. This is also thanks to twelve levels characterized by a good variety of environments (oil rigs, jungles, deserts, cities, sea ice) and situations far from the original but still enjoyable.

Between Quick Time Event (especially melee), stealth missions, sniping breakers, use of fixed positions, convoys and other stocks are typical of the genre, the game does not fail to amuse and, although everything is pretty straightforward as is now tradition for this type of shooter, the scripts are introduced with the right frequency and not weigh down the performance of the game too.

Moreover played three different characters during the campaign and we have a fortnight of weapons (but we can bring a maximum of two), which argues in favor of the completeness and the variety of missions and game play. Unfortunately, some defect tends to dampen the initial enthusiasm and to make the single player game certainly valid but not really memorable: the enemies such as almost always arrive in waves and for them can hardly speak of "intelligence", but also the usual barrels explosives to two inches from opponents start a little 'tired and in general it has almost always seemed to play a small Modern Warfare style, although for some this may not necessarily be a limit. For the rest of the changes from last year's episode is not much: the configurable control system (three possible settings) has become the usual for a shooter in first person and touch, between the aims and assisted the configuration that best suited to their tastes, it takes just ten minutes to familiarize yourself with the controls and the result can be called satisfactory.

To give the game more polish than its predecessor, is still very good the graphics and the multiplayer. For the first aspect Game loft has improved not just the yield of the faces, arms, and the animations of the enemies in general, all fixed and mobile scenario. Everything is still suffering a bit of a yield 'and squared timber (see, e.g., explosions), but considering the frame-rate constant and a few touches of class (for slow motion headshot, blur filters) the result is quite remarkable. Promotion for the full multiplayer, that can be local (Bluetooth or Wi-Fi) is free of charge by registering online at Game loft Live (sin only for failure to support Apple's Game Center). Overall there is a maximum of ten players at once, five maps and four game modes, which offer the classic Death match, Team Death match, capture the Flag and the new Defuse the Bomb, where a team must foil the explosion of a bomb placed by opposing team. Counting that our alter-ego can take a classic path of growth thanks to the dozens of perks and upgrades available, this model also inspired the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, fans of online battles have available a very comprehensive and varied . Among other things, we found no worrisome phenomena of lag, so that the only limit is that of the maps, few and not especially large to accommodate up to ten players. We therefore hope that a future upgrade can bring a little 'more variety in this area, but excluding Archetype frag hard fans will find a sub-titles in other multiplayer more solid and well made this.