Breach & Clear is ambitious, strategic, and shallow (review)

Breach & Clear, a mobile turn-based tactical game from developer Mighty Rabbit out today for iOS devices, promised to bring the depth and production values of a triple-A console release to phones and tablets. Unfortunately for executive producer Robert Bowling, former creative strategist and community manager of Infinity Ward (one of the studios that makes those Call of Duty games the kids like so much), it doesn’t live up to these lofty goals.

While Breach & Clear’s goal, according to Bowling, is to “change the conversation about what denotes a mobile game,” its repetitive gameplay, microtransactions, and lack of a plot keep it from breaking out of the mobile-game mold.