Discover the high-speed heat of San Diego Harbor.Push the pedal to the Metal! Play on an iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, or on iOS 8-updated versions of iPhone 5s, iPad Air, and iPad mini with Retina display to enjoy AMAZING visual enhancements and enter a new gaming dimension.“Please note that app resources have been improved and the game will require re-downloading the DLC packs,” Gameloft cautions.Īs for Asphalt 8 (pictured above), playing the game on the A7 or A8-powered iOS 8 device will enable three times as many opponents. What Metal does for Modern Combat 5 is enable up to five times more particles, resulting in denser explosions and RPG rocket trails, impact particles for intense gunfights, richer environments and weather effects and improved heat haze and god rays. When played on these devices, both of these games benefit from close-to-the-metal access to graphics cores, without the overhead of the OpenGL graphics run-time.īefore you jump straight for the comments, let me reiterate that you won’t benefit from Metal-enhanced visuals unless you play these games on the iOS 8-enabled iPhone 5s/6/Plus, iPad Air or Retina iPad mini because Metal is a hardware-dependent feature requiring the A7 or A8 processor.
Following up on yesterday’s public release of the free iOS 8 software update for Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod touch mobile devices, French games maker Gameloft on Thursday unleashed a pair of updates for its two highly-successful titles: Modern Combat 5: Blackout, a first-person shooter, and Asphalt 8: Airborne, a crazy racing game driven by a powerful physics engine which has you performing dynamic, high-speed aerial stunts.īoth games are now powered by iOS 8’s new Metal framework which provides low-level access to the GPU inside the Apple-designed A7 chip (the iPhone 5s, iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display) and its A8 counterpart (the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus).
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