Sci-fi gaming hit N.O.V.A. 3 headed to Windows Phone 8 this week [Updated]

Update: Gameloft could not ostend the May 8th release date and the game hasn't shown up, so our source looks to take been incorrect. Sad for getting everybody's hopes up. Ubisoft'southward Monster Burner is this week's bodily Xbox release.

Gameloft announced 12 killer Xbox games for Windows Phone eight dorsum in October of last year (and later amended the listing). Those titles starting rolling out with Asphalt seven in February. With Ice Age Village actualization at the end of April, nosotros're upwards to seven out of 12 games so far. Not a bad two months of releases, only the most predictable game (among our readers, anyway), N.O.V.A. 3 had yet to appear.

That changes this Wednesday when Gameloft's N.O.V.A. 3 finally debuts. A get-go-person shooter based on the Halo series. Due north.O.V.A. iii is the closest thing Windows Phone volition have to a proper Halo championship unless Microsoft ever has a change of heart. Like Modern Combat 4, this one will require 1 GB of RAM and lots of storage space, so some devices similar the Lumia 520 and 620 won't be able to run it.

N.O.V.A. iii draws on both Halo for and Crysis for inspiration. The get-go of the game takes place on a time to come world that is entirely desolate and uninhabitable. Players control Kal Warden, a commander in the Almost Orbit Vanguard Alliance or NOVA for short. Kal'due south mission is to recover an alien antiquity that could make the world livable over again while also battling the evil Volterite army. The 10-level campaign spans not only earth but 2 more alien planets as well.

On top of the single-player game, N.O.V.A. three will likewise include multiplayer via local Wi-Fi and online. A multifariousness of game modes are supported, though it remains to exist seen whether the matchmaking volition discourage players from trying those modes every bit it does in Modern Combat 4. The addition of vehicles and mechs should certainly brand for a more dynamic feel, at any charge per unit.

The Windows Phone viii version of N.O.V.A. three utilizes the same graphical engine as Mod Gainsay 4, so information technology should easily be one of the prettiest games on our platform when it releases. Its impact-screen controls volition work similarly as well, with the actor's left thumb controlling movement and the right thumb handling firing, grenades, and other functions.

For players who dislike using their right thumbs to both look and shoot, gyroscope looking will again be an selection. As I've said before, spend enough time with the game and yous'll eventually become the hang of it.

N.O.V.A. 3 will cost $6.99 and clock in somewhere around ane GB in download size. Nosotros'll have the download link for you lot on Wednesday!

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