Last October, Bean’s Quest and Time Surfer developer Kumobius released Duet ($2.99), a twitchy and extremely challenging arcade game. It received critical success far and wide, including our own review, and seemed to do fairly well in the charts too. Nothing earth shattering, but decent. Then in late February through mid-March, Duet saw a huge resurgence, and actually came to hit the top three in the overall paid charts, coinciding with a price drop to 99¢. Duet always felt like it should have done better in the charts than it had, and finally it was getting its due. I actually think it had something to do with the whole Flappy Bird phenomenon and the sudden obsession with super challenging twitch games.
Anyway, that resurgence meant that Kumobius could spend some more time and resources pouring some extra love into Duet. Last month the game received a new Daily Challenge mode, and today Duet has been updated with some new levels and complete voice narration for the tiny bits of text in the game. Voiceover is never something I considered for a game like Duet, but now that it’s here, it makes total sense. The game is incredibly elegant and hypnotic, and the spacey female voice blends in perfectly with the rhythmic beats and trippy electronic soundtrack. Of course, if you’re not into the whole voice thing, you can simply shut it off in the options.
The other big part of this update is a batch of new levels added to the “B-Side" of the game, as well as a slight restructuring of what’s included as part of the main “A-Side" campaign. Here’s how the new/moved levels breakdown, straight from the update description:
– “Revolution", a set of challenges focused on spinning and twisting blocks. You will lose control.
– “Quickening", includes extremely fast but quick challenges.
– “Resilience", is focused on longer challenges that are endurance based. If Quickening is a sprint then Resilience is a marathon.
– “Transcendence", originally part of the A-Side. These stages have been relocated and expanded with an additional challenge.
Finally, the difficulty of some of the Acceptance stages has been modified, and Acceptance IV has been removed altogether and placed in the Resilience area of the B-Side. It’s been replaced with a brand new level, but if you’ve achieved Perfection on Acceptance IV prior to this update, you’ll still retain that even with the level being moved. That about sums up this latest update, and if you haven’t yet experienced the awesomeness of Duet make sure you rectify that with this updated version.
Where are all the fans "instabuy" comments?
Where's the bravado? Where's the Madden-like loyalty?
Sometimes I disparity at the state of pro gaming.
Since when was Modern Combat even remotely associated with professional gaming?
It would be if Gameloft adds iOS7 controller support. Maybe not as good as consoles and PC but good enough for mobile.
Not professional..."pro"
Alas I missed the quotes in my OP
Ah right, that makes more sense.
Amazing! Love the 4th MC and its time 4 some new stuff... I owning all the way mostly on online mode :)
Online is the only way to own...you can't own in a single player rail shooter. :)
Can't wait hope their will be building destruction in multiplayer but campaign has destruction
"And Pro Wrestling"
I hope is not freemium game. Then i'm download it.a good price is enough so we can play.
But not in mc4 earn money to 20 games to buy one one weapon.
Can't be freemium. And it'll most likely be $6.99
Complete and total bullsh*t gameloft, just release it already. Idiots...
idiot.
Blackout? I was guessing it would be named Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo, but Blackout is close enough I guess.
Because it's close to BlackOps? Just a guess...
Because it's generic as hell, just like the whole series so far.
It's an effin mobile game. Who cares.
Blackout = racist
that was dumb...
Mobile games are big business in case you haven't noticed...
Because they had a blackout, during development, so it took them so long.
That was a good one, lol.
Waited so long for new information, and we get this? Wow.
IKR? this better be a joke! and they even said big infos on twitter.
Hope it releases soon
If it's premium, I'll buy it. If it's freemium or worse yet paymium, fuggetaboutit...
screw this bullshit ass info!! THE TITLE??!!! are you freakin' kidding me?!
They even delayed this info, which is just the title, as the rest was already known. They should've released some early gameplay of what they did so far, and with all the time they have to develop this (started before MC4), there should be controller support.
A dev diary would've been nice.
Did anyone else think the title of the game was "Modern Combat 5: Tidbits" for a second?
MC5: Blackout......sounds promising. As long as the Blackout doesn't refer to what happens if you don't have a constant online connection.
99% chance will. At least the last 3 titles they've released have required it. It's not likely a trend that's going away.
It may, but if they did, they would lose like half their Modern Combat fan base (me included) so I hope Gameloft doesn't screw up this game
I hope they reconsider, otherwise they lost me as a paying customer. And despite claims that this new trend will spread to other developers, Gameloft currently stands alone. There's no other developer that sells premium games that all require a connection for single player content.
"Uncovering an uncomfortable secret"? Like doing it in the back of a Volkswagen?
If they don't add iOS7 controller support, I'm not even buying it... I'm disappointed they didn't add it to The Amzing Spider-Man 2 and it makes me think they're not going to add it to this either. Get a clue Gameloft..
Will believe when I see!
I'm hoping for some kind of co op in this one!
Game controller support??
Yes
Instabuy
Waiting for Gameloft's Titanfall knockoff
Modern combat: fall of titans
Future Combat: War of Titans
That was real funny, lol. Good one.
I dont know what the graphics look like on A5 devices???
Ikr i wanna see this game on my ipod 5th gen with the a5 chip. XD
Stop replying to everyone!
He has nothing else to do.
To everyone? I just replied to 2 people. Pls go step on lego
It'll run fine on A5 devices. It's one of the newest devices, so it'll be optimized for A5, although some features might be downgraded. It'll still run fine, with just a little bit of frame rate drops.
I think it will be a
FINALLY
Please be offline playable unlike The amazing spiderman 2.-
I hate Lego now!
Atleast 'Blackout' is better than 'The Last War'. I really hope Gameloft don't blow it on this one. modern Combat 3 was great, cool weapons and great maps. 4 not so much. Weapons looked the same, about 3 animations for all the guns combined, ragdoll was extremely silly at times, and maps wasn't that great.
I swear if they reuse the Assault Rifle animation for the third time I'm gonna tableflip someone. Animations and the sounds during has been horrible in most Modern Combat games. MC2 was decent.
Also bring back LMGs fffs! >:(
Assault rifle animation: est 2010-2014. RIP
Everything in MC4 was repetitive. If you pay attention to one of the hands-on videos for MC5, the GL representative said they're using a lot of things from MC4 + more new things.
I wonder why the delay is taking almost a year.. My guess is that Gameloft Bucharest f***ed something up and they had to redo it all over again.
COME ON ALREADY. I NEEEED IIIITTT.
It's gonna be the same like all previous mc games...
I loved Zero Hour's multiplayer, but I had a really hard time trying to enjoy the campaign. I hope Blackout brings out a stronger campaign, like Fallen Nation did.