Activision has launched its latest Call of Duty game for Android smartphones and tablets. Call of Duty: Strike Team is the latest in the series to be built specifically for mobile devices.

The game, which costs £4.33 from Android's Google Play store, and at launch is available on a relatively narrow range of devices, including Nexus 7 and Galaxy Tab tablets, as well as smartphones from Samsung and LG.

Strike Team launched for Apple's iPhone and iPad in September as a time-limited exclusive for iOS. It's a so-called "paymium" game, with players paying for the initial download, but also able to spend up to £69.99 at a time on in-app purchases of virtual tokens to unlock the game's weapons and perks earlier.

It's certainly one of the biggest games on Android, with 1.9GB of free space required to install it. The game mixes first and third-person action, with players able to switch between a traditional first-person shooter view, and a more strategic third-person perspective to arrange their squad's tactics.

The game is the work of The Blast Furnace, which is Activision's internal mobile games studio, based in the UK. While the critical reception was warm on iOS, the game's commercial performance is more unclear: it's currently the 56th top paid game in the US App Store's iPad games category, but only 164th in the top grossing games chart for that device.