Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour

    Hey, everyone. I have been playing the newest shooter game from Gameloft and it pretty much rocks. Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour is running #4 on the app store against the stiff competition of Angry Birds and Vice City. I have had it for 2 days now but I have just now started to play it. I chose 'no gyroscope' on the controls and 'easy' level of difficulty. The file size is a huge 1.44 Gigs, the biggest game file I've ever downloaded. The price is a healthy $6.99. The in-apps, if you have to have them? They run all the way up to $99 (dollars, not cents). Are they out of their minds? I hope I can play at least most of it without the additional buys. Wouldn't bet on it.
     The graphics are superb and it plays okay on my I-Pad 3. Here's how the story goes. A lot of dignitaries are assembled in Hawaii and a guy named Page launches an assault on the hotel and takes a noted captive, utilizing a band of mercenaries. This Page guy has a screw loose in his mind. You say sure, he's a bad guy, that's required, right? Before you say that, keep in mind that you actually play this game as Page in Chapter 2. In Chapter 1, you fight against Page's forces. This is the ultimate Jekyll/ Hyde thing and it kind of freaked me out a little. I like to wear the white hat. I like to be the good guy. But I persevered.
     This game is fun. In a short time, I have launched an air strike with a handheld tablet, (an I-Pad? Ha, ha.) operated a drone with infrared detection and machine guns, hacked into consoles and gotten into a knife fight with a couple of dudes. A busy night for a 60 year old guy. Oh, yeah, I blasted an anti-air emplacement with a shoulder-fired rocket.
      The Page guy also took control of America's drone network by hacking some computers. By the way, he uses bad language, so you probably will want to turn the sound down when your wife and kids are around. Hey, what can you expect from a super-criminal? Most of them are not house-broken. Ha, ha.
    The multiplayer is supposed to be very cool, but I couldn't get signed in for some reason. I never play anything on-line and I guess I am fairly incompetent in that endeavor.
     Even if I quickly reach a point where I am stuck, as with most of the big games, I think that this game is probably gonna be worth the price of admission. Check it out, if you are in the mood for some war action.
     From the author's green retreat, I'm C.E. Wills.

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