Mobile Game Call of Duty: Heroes Out Now in Australia and New Zealand
Mobile games on iOS tend to “soft launch” in smaller territories before coming to larger markets like the U.S. and Europe. Gives them time to test things and iron out the bugs, and I suppose our friends in those countries don’t mind being free beta testers if it gives them earlier access to games.
That’s the case with Call of Duty: Heroes, a new iOS Call of Duty game by One of Swords. Officially it’s still Call of Duty: Heroes Beta and it’s only available in Australia and New Zealand.
Heroes is a top-down, free-to-play casual strategy game with a base-building element that’s drawing comparisons to popular mobile money-sinks like Clash of Clans. I’m guessing that if you read our forum you’re likely more into AAA shooting experiences than mobile free-to-play games, but these things are money-making machines, so its to be expected we’ll see efforts like this.
The game cribs numerous elements from the Call of Duty franchise to give it flavor. Weapons, drone strikes and killstreaks from the main games are present. The heroes apparently refer to returning characters from the franchise, including Captain Price, Soap, Harper.
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