Modern Combat: Sandstorm is a shooter developed by Gameloft, released 27 August 2009 on Android and iOS.
What Modern Combat: Sandstorm is
Modern Combat: Sandstorm is a shooter game developed by Gameloft and released in 2009. It is available on Android and iOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Assigned to Mission Sandstorm, your duty is to locate and annihilate a new terrorist cell setting up shop and recruiting foreign insurgents in a remote desert hot spot. Modern Combat: Sandstorm is a first-person shooter set in the Middle East. The player controls the character Chief who, working together with a squad, participates in ten missions against terrorists. Missions are linear with scripted events. Different weapons can be used, such as two types of assault rifles, an SMG, an RPG, a sniper rifle and grenades. Some weapons are hidden in crates found along the way. The character is controlled using a virtual joystick while aiming is done by scrolling across the touchscreen.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Modern Combat: Sandstorm holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 84% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Modern Combat: Sandstorm launched on 27 August 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version and Wolfenstein. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version, Wolfenstein.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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