Pocket Gamer: If first-person shooters on console are a gamer’s bread and butter, then an FPS on smartphone is a gamer’s Ryvita. It doesn’t taste the same, but at least it’s lighter.
Unfortunately, where most Android and iOS versions of Gameloft’s Modern Combat series work in tandem with the touchscreen to create a mostly enjoyable romp, their adaption to the Xperia Play has always been troublesome.
The 3-D shooter has been one of the less-represented genres in mobile gaming thus far, due to their technical demands and the challenge of adapting their gameplay to touchscreen controls. Luckily, however, that is starting to change, and the past few years have seen a slew of third-person and first-person shooters for Android devices. As we enter 2013, here are some of the more successful forays into the genre thus far.
I wrongly posted a previous version of this as an article not an opinion piece, and was unable to edit to fix it, so I deleted it.
So I am reposting it. Any problems, please let me know.
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John Bedford (Modojo): Seven great games have had a bargain bin price-drop on the App Store today, including Osmos, Burnout Crash and Modern Combat 3.
Major League Gaming, Sony Mobile Communications and Gameloft Bring Competitive Gaming to Smartphones with First-ever Xperia™ Mobile Gaming Arena.
Competition Launches with Gameloft’s Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation.
Wonder why it's just the Xperia play and not all PS Suit devices. Surely Sony would want to push PS suite sales more as this would mean more profit than just the sales of one particular hardware device.
