Mitsota complains about Modern Combat: Versus
Modern Combat: Versus is a first person shooter (hopefully) still in development by Gameloft, a Ubisoft sister company. The version I'm playing is available for download on the Windows store, but I'm fairly certain it's cross-platform with the cellphone version.
Gameplay consists of 2 teams of 4 players playing the traditional "king of the hill" shooter game type, or the less common "kill confirmed" game type. Players can choose to play as 1 of 15 heroes, each with a cooldown ability. The player starts with 2 very underpowered heroes, and a third can be unlocked by connecting to a Facebook account. The only hero worth playing as is Ghost, who you are given a 4 day trial of.
If you're familiar with first person shooters, you'll know that a shotgun usually sprays 9 pellets that each deal a set amount of damage within a certain distance of the player, before the damage is lessened by travel time, or "drop off". While other heroes with shotguns do around 200 damage per pellet at base level, Ghost deals closer to 350 per pellet, at his base level. Keep in mind that you can level characters up, which directly increases their max HP and base damage.
Leveling up requires XP for the specific hero you want to level up. Earning this XP is not a very easy task, however. "Agent XP" can be earned by opening loot chests earned at the end of every match. You can hold 4 at any time, you can only open 1 at a time, and they take 3-8 hours to open. If that sounds agonizing to you too, fret not! There's another way to get Agent XP. Every 24 hours, 2 random heroes are selected for a "Black Market" sale, meaning you can spend "victory Points" (the currency you earn at the end of matches that isn't used to buy heroes) on Agent XP. Naturally, you can exchange real money for this currency. While there is an in-game rating system to separate players by skill level, this does not factor into matchmaking, thus greatly encouraging players to spend money on leveling up.
Right, that's all garbage, so what's not garbage? Not a lot, unsurprisingly. The game feels very smooth in motion, controls are very simple, but they work. Models are high quality and textured nicely, characters, while of similar builds, are visually distinct and can be picked out from a crowd. In particular, I enjoyed the voice acting. Most characters have campy action movie voices and phrases, and interact with one-other at the start of matches, it's very charming.
Let's see, have I got anything else nice to say about the game...some of the skins look nice? Yeah, that's about it. Horribly unbalanced, pay to win, long-ass wait times, deliberately bad matchmaking, this is probably one of the worst games I've played in recent memory. Still better than The Sims on Gameboy though.