A shooting icon remains onscreen and you can snap onto your enemy targets by pressing on additional icons that appear on the left and right sides as well. While in the traditional CoD first person mode, moving your character about and looking around is accomplished with your thumbs on the right and left sides of the screen. There were times I felt like I was ‘all thumbs’ on that tiny screen but in the end I only felt that way when I played the game in the first person perspective. In fact, given the beefy 2GB size of the game it is obviously much better suited for the tablet. A big part of me wanted to play the game on an iPad for the sake of a larger screen. Everything is accomplished with the touch screen, and in my case a somewhat smaller iPhone 5 touch screen. In first person, Strike Team feels and looks like Call of Duty. Sure the first person elements are a little more miss than hit but the third person strategy elements are a nice surprise and something I did not expect going in. What makes this mobile Call of Duty game work is how it blends the traditional CoD first person shooter experience with some third person strategy elements. Granted it doesn’t hold a candle to the console CoD experience, but as far as mobile games go I enjoyed playing this brand of Call of Duty on my iPhone 5. Well much to my surprise Call of Duty: Strike Team was quite enjoyable and much better than I expected.
I just could not stomach another disappointment given I am a fan of the console versions of series and I hate to see the franchise tarnished.
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So when the opportunity surfaced to review another portable Call of Duty game, honestly, I wanted to run for the hills. I also believed it was a lost opportunity for Activision, Sony and fans of Call of Duty games alike. At the time I felt it had little in the way of redeeming qualities. I gave Declassified a whopping score of 30. It was the last time I picked up a Call of Duty game on the go. Last year I reviewed Call of Duty: Declassified for the PS Vita.