N.O.V.A. 3: Premium Edition

I love this game I have been with the franchise since NOVA 2 and I love it. The campaign is awesome fast paced, lots of action, and very hard. Now to the multiplayer. The multiplayer is definitely my favorite part of this game. It is especially good considering its on IOS. I am finally a level 100 with a jet pack, rocket launcher and lightning gun after months of playing. Now I couldn't find much things two be negative about but here are the two biggest things I could think of: 1. In the multiplayer there are more hackers than I can count! Game loft you really need to crack down on the hackers and ban them. It's so annoying when I join for example a free for all and there's a hacker running around with unlimited invincibility and unlimited jet pack ruining everyone's fun! 2. The other thing is the glitch where people use makes to I guess you could put it "fall out of the world" it's so annoying because they will just stand there sniping you and unfortunately you can't shoot them. I have only ever seen this done on badlands and lost world but unfortunately these are my two favorite maps! :( Gameloft this is a glitch that needs to be fixed!

IMPORTANT EDIT: for those who are complaining about online multiplayer not working, it works perfectly fine for me, and I see others online as of 2019. However, multiplayer only works if you have an old Gameloft LIVE! account. Your account needs to have been created before October 10th 2018, or you won’t be able to connect to multiplayer. My online account was made in 2016, so I don’t have any issues. Unfortunately, new online accounts don’t seem to be supported, and I don’t think Gameloft is working on fixing this. Sorry guys :/ I was pretty devastated when I found out in mid-2017 that the game wouldn’t support iOS 11. I held on to iOS 10 for a long time, but my phone eventually auto-updated, and I lost the game. One year later, and they finally decided to show N.O.V.A 3 some love. I’m super glad to be back, even though the multiplayer is pretty dead. Anything is better than the disgrace of a game called N.O.V.A Legacy, though. While you’re at it, could you guys please consider bringing back N.O.V.A 1 (the original 2009 game) and N.O.V.A 2? Edit: for those who are complaining about multiplayer not working, it works perfectly fine for me, and I see others online. However, multiplayer only works if you have an old Gameloft LIVE! account (one created before October 10th, 2018). My online account was made in 2016, so I don’t have issues. New online accounts don’t seem to be supported, sorry guys :/

This is a great app with a Halo feel to it. The campaign mode is nothing to talk about (although a lot of effort was put into it). The characters are hard to relate to and the protagonist is a bit of a jerk. He always seems to be complaining about every situation he ends up in. Yeah, I get that he's supposed to be rough and tough, but he has no heart. Also the narrative was boring and the dialogue sequences seemed to go on forever. Aside from the ok campaign, the multiplayer almost makes up for it. It's very exciting, yet the maps seem to have a similar design (except for the close quarters maps). And with only 10 weapons and no customization, gunplay can become a little repetitive; however vehicle warfare makes up for this niggle. Upgrades are a bit more expensive than I would like in a purchased game. Jet Pack usage should be accessible to new players or else it becomes an overwhelmingly unfair advantage. Too much grinding without in-app purchases must be done to obtain this Jetpack and even when finally purchased, it's not fun to play with knowing it's too easy to abuse.

This is actually good and I played it near the end, but I noticed that it became challenging, like Dark Souls challenging, you would have to fight a good bit of powerful and resilient enemies, and this is when you near the end and you will die a whole lot. But when you die you feel that you could change your strategy a little bit in order to triumph and that can have the player return because NOVA takes a bunch of notes from Dark Souls and instead of artificial difficulty, they use difficult enemies and it has you utilize your force push, for time control, which can give the game variety in gameplay, and I haven’t completed it yet because of difficulty so feel free to suffer like I did.

GameLoft doesn’t usually make paid apps, and when they do, they are not quite worth it. But this changes that. It gives me that kind of feel like you have when playing Terminator or some other shooter at an arcade, just without the shaking of the guns attached to the machine. And all the shooters that GameLoft does now, not very good. N.O.V.A. Legacy ruined the whole series. Same with the Modern Combat series, MC: Versus was responsible for that fail. But N.O.V.A. 3 is different. It’s WAY older then Legacy, but more fun. I feel like GameLoft just copies all their games and just adds slightly different gameplay features and reskins all the textures. N.O.V.A. 3 was really GameLoft’s only unique shooter, and it is MUCH better.