While I personally am more than a little tired of modern trends in first person shooters, there seems to be a pool of millions of people who can’t get enough of ’em. If you’re looking for another modern military themed first person shooter, you’re going to be in for a treat on March 17th when Gameloft’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard hits the App Store.
There have been a ton of games based on the Tom Clancy universe released in the past 13 years since the launch of the initial Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six games are typically squad based, and take place in tight urban environments. Shadow Vanguard seems to fit right in line with that per the above trailer, and boasts a few cool features. You’ll be able to play the 11 included missions online in a co-op mode with 3 players, and there’s even 10 player multiplayer.
Judging by the trailer, this isn’t one of the upcoming Unreal Engine games we’ve heard about, but it’s hard to not get excited about online co-op in a first person shooter running on a phone. That feels like the future.
It might be 9x as powerful... but if all the good games are as simple as Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds, nobody will notice/care :P Here's hoping for more than ONE Infinity Blade-quality game this generation.
Firemint already announced that they are working on an iPad 2 optimized Real Racing 2 HD. And IMHO Real Racing HD was already a high-quality game.
Dead Space? RealRacing 2 HD? Dungeon Defenders? perhaps Perfect Cell....
Wondering how our full-shader game Adrenaline Golf is running, on original iPad it has around 20 fps in the start screen.
Now its up to some studios to really bring the heat.. my iPad 1 dominates all available games...
I would go along with a multicore version of the SGX543MP2 chip also. Half the power of the NGP in an iPhone (I hope) but then again I have no idea the clock speeds of the NGP??
Just leaves us with the question - where is the Apple iJoyPad?
I love the iPad but touch controls suck. Thats a simple fact.
Hoping that some nice looking but frame-rate challenged iPhone games will get a 'free' boost in June when iPhone5 comes out ... thinking things like GT Academy ... just struggled at times ...
Been trying to figure a way out to get iPad2 upgrade but not looking likely but the evidence of the A5 being in the iPhone5 is at least one upgrade i'm all over.
That's pretty cool.
Sounds like this was designed to be able to handle the rumored retina double resolution display that ended up being punted.
The iPad2 could be the ultimate platform for emulators.
The CPU is clocked in at 800mhz and the GPU is only 5 times faster, though that isn't very impressive seeing as the resolution hasn't changed. It only has 512mb of ram, the cameras are piss poor and it doesn't support flash or have camera flash.
Why on earth would you buy this over a Xoom that you can easily clock to 1.5Ghrz.
"only 5 times better"
ONLY 5 TIMES BETTER!! WTF were you thinking apple!!!!
Good luck with those 1.6 ghz with to apps
Then go get your Xoom, Grant, and be happy with it ;) As for us that'll be an iPad 2 :)
Hey, where's the android version of "toucharcade"?
I hear you can use your camera flash to play really fun games on you tablet.
The 'no flash' response is so tired, it makes Rip Van Winkle seem like he was on amphetamine.
I don't miss all the Flash junk on the web one iota.
I would NEVER buy the xoom. No ecosystem. It's a piece of hardware sitting alone in a desert compared to the iPad.
The A5 is a dynamically scaling CPU (re: clockspeed) - it seems to max at 1GHz and I've seen it as low as 800MHz. I'd not sweat this, given the 10hr battery life and the benches I've reported.
Hey Grant,
You fail to understand that it's not always performance that makes the machines. Flash won't ever be in the iOS so long as it drains battery life. It's buggy and Apple doesn't want anything to do with it. Get over it. What do the cameras have to do with your gaming? Not much with the exception of a few shovelware games.
Why on Earth would I buy an iPad2 or iPhone 5 over a Xoom or Shaddendroid? Because Apple has a vast network of games and screens out buggy games and malware. Get your Xoom and enjoy 10 games.
i have yet to see a great review of the xoom. most say constant crashing. that doesn't sound fun!! $100 more for half the hard drive and less than half the apps.
1. iPad 2 CAN play videos without flash.
2. iPad 2 has better performance per mhz.
3. I bet that SGX543MP2 is 5 times faster then xooms gpu.
4. Even with 1gb ram xoom isn't faster...
5. You are stubit now enjoy your droid crap with 10 apps support and instant crashing!
Because of the AppStore developers would develop more games for the iPad than others, and also remeber that Xoom uses Android, which is a lot worse than iOS
Rather controversial opinion there. Honeycomb is in many ways far more advanced than the current version of iOS. At the moment it lacks tablet apps, but it's only just come out, so give it time.
Only a fool would write of Honeycomb given the success of Android in phones.
I hope Dungeon Defenders will run smoother.
Hopefully more Galaxy on Fire 2 style space games will arrive and be jaw dropping visually. Then again, with the graphic glitches and slowdowns on Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD, 9x faster graphic performance won't hurt that title right now. :D
The A5 is bound for a refresh in a few months' time.
Oh wait. This isn't a car blog.
please give us transperancy and soft particles