Activision has quietly released a new entry in the Call Of Duty franchise, with the new game hoping to make up for previous lacklustre efforts.
If you’ve never heard of Call Of Duty: Strike Team before then we wouldn’t worry, neither had we until today.
In stark contrast to the usual media hoopla surrounding a new Call Of Duty (there isn’t even any video footage that we can find) Strike Team appeared on the App Store today with nary a mention from Activision.
Strike Force costs £4.99 to download and has been developed by British studio The Blast Furnace, who also worked on the rather good endless runner reboot of Pitfall!
It uses both a traditional first person view and a Strikeforce-inspired third person view where you get to direct team-mates. You can customise your squad’s loadouts and abilities in the usual Call Of Duty fashion and there’s a single-player campaign mode and a Horde style survival mode.
Previous Call Of Duty games on smartphone have been little more than cheap cash-ins but Strike Team seems to represent a much more serious effort.
£4.99 is already relatively expensive for an iOS game but on top of that is the inevitable microtransactions. You can spend anything up to £69.99 on in-game currency, but there’s nothing stopping you earning it the hard way by just playing the game.
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