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