Nova 3 Review

Price: £4.99
Publisher: Gameloft
Gameloft's latest addition to the award winning franchise puts high expectations from the likes of Modern Combat 3. Well with Nova 3 you go beyond those expectations. With outstanding graphics, great gameplay and a great online experience.


Nova 3 has a simple layout on the main menu giving you 2 play options Campaign and Multiplayer.

The Main Menu

Gameplay

Campaign

Clicking on Campaign will show each level available to play on or to start the Campaign.

The Campaign Level Selection Screen

The Campaign is a good experience as you take control of Kal Warden battle your way across a variety of different environments including what remains of Earth and an Alien spaceship filled with enemies. The missions are fully packed and are fun to play and do take time to complete they are auto saved so you do not have to worry about progress issues. There are a couple of problems, such as enemies will not spawn sometimes and the game will crash if you have too many apps open and your memory is low, but those are not big issues.

The story is easy to follow and you will understand what the game is about. The Single-Player missions last between 30-90 mins.

The Online Multiplayer screen

Multiplayer

Clicking on Multiplayer will bring up the Multiplayer menu  giving you two options Online or Local Wifi. The multiplayer offering is a good one with a solid connection meaning no connection lost messages like in Modern Combat 3. The game modes used in multiplayer are:

Free-For-All: The player must defeat all other players.

Deathmatch: The player must work with his team(red or blue) to defeat the opposing team.

Freeze Tag: The player and their team must kill all opposing team members when an opponent is killed they are frozen and a fellow team member must stay near the for 3 seconds to get them back in the game.

The Multiplayer Screen

Capture The Flag: Each team must prevent the oher team from taking their flag while trying to capture the other teams flag.

InstaGib: A mode like Free-For-All but with the exception of power ups. Every player has the same weapon and a hit is an instant death.

Capture The Point: Capture all points on the map for 30 seconds to score a point standing by a point
will capture it.

The multiplayer is fun to play and will never be the same old match each match has different players of all levels and experiences. You can Rank up to get extra weapons and equipment

The Verdict

Nova 3 is a strong first person shooter with many different weapons and levels it is one of the best looking games I have ever seen. The game if full featured with an excellent multiplayer and campaign and will be sure to keep you going.

9/10

Nova 3 can be downloaded from google play here

Xperia PLAY Experience Pack XP151 Review

Included:

Multimedia Dock DK300

Pocket Micro USB Cable EC300                        Can be purchased from Amazon.co.uk here

3.5mm Music Cable MC100

3 Free Gameloft Games

The Xperia PLAY Experience pack XP151 is a good addition, aside from including a host of great accessories, it enables some new features to the phone, including a bedside view which shows the time, weather and date, there are 4 soft buttons at the bottom of the screen: Alarms, Gallery Photos, Music and Homescreen.

The bedside view once dimmed

When the phone is docked at night, it has a neat clock view which can be set to dim by pressing the toggle in the top right corner to use by the bedside (to stop the image burning into your screen, after 5 mins of dimmed display only the clock will remain and will slowly move around the screen.)

If the phone is docked during the daytime, it can easily be switched into the gallery photo mode which shows your photos in a digital photo frame style view.

There are reports of problems if the phone is not placed on and off the dock carefully, so it is wise to ensure it is always in line with the viewing angle.

The 3 free gameloft games are decent quality including some of their top selling like Gangstar Rio:City of Saints, Nova 3 and Modern Combat 3. Unfortunately one of the games did not work for me and they were helpful and gave me another game for free.

The Verdict

If you can pick one of these packs up for under £15 it is an excellent offer. It includes all the things you could almost ever want.

Asphalt 7: Heat Review

Price: £0.69

Publisher: Gameloft

The Loading Screen

Asphalt 7:Heat is Gamelofts latest edition to the Asphalt series. It is a well polished game with 60 cars from manufacturers such as Lamborghini, Ferrari, Audi and Aston Martin.
The title screen is well presented giving you three playing options: Career, Quick Play and Multiplayer.

The Title Screen

Playing in career mode lets you take on racers in a wide variety of famous and not so famous cities in the world, buy upgrades for your car, buy some sponsors which give you boosts and buy new cars.

The career mode is lengthy and will take about a month to complete and buy all cars, (depending on how much time you spend playing the game). A typical race normally lasts between two and four minutes.

The Career Car Selection

Quick Play is very easy to use simply select the race mode then the map and finally the tier.

The Quick Play Menu

A tier is a group of cars with a certain performance level there are seven tiers with legends like the Bugatti Veyron and the Pagani Zonda and the not so fast mini cooper and Fiat 500 Abarth but are still great fun to drive.

The Multiplayer Menu

Multiplayer is available enabling you to race with people around the world using the cars you have unlocked and purchased from the career mode.
You can race online via a free Gameloft Live account or via local wifi. Multiplayer is a good experience with little to no lag.

The Online Multiplayer Menu

The gameplay was decent with great graphics and no lag while driving. The controls are easy to get used to no matter what device you are playing on.

The Verdict

Asphalt 7: Is a strong Racing game that will please all and for the asking price of £0.69. You can't go wrong.

10/10

Asphalt 7:Heat can be downloaded from Google Play here