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N.O.V.A.
94 Score
Action · Shooter

N.O.V.A.

Gameloft  /  December 17, 2009  /  Rated Teen

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Released

2009

Publisher

Gameloft

Time to beat

N/A

Community

36

With Earth no longer able to sustain life, huge artificial satellites called “near-orbitals” were constructed for people to live on. To protect themselves, the near-orbitals banded together to form N.O.V.A., the Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance. Now, a strange threat has emerged from the darkness of space. A Marine ship, reported missing just a week ago, has suddenly reappeared and is headed directly for the near-orbitals, ignoring all communications. Against his will, retired Marine hero Kal Wardin is forcefully returned to active duty to prevent mankind's annihilation.

Get ready for unparalleled action on the iPad!

iPAD OPTIMIZED CONTROLS
- Curve your grenade’s trajectory with the new 2-finger-based throwing move
- Perform multiple surgical kills at once with multi-target acquisition
- More intuitive than ever, thanks to numerous multi-touch controls on-screen

EPIC SINGLE-PLAYER CAMPAIGN
- 13 insane levels
- 5 environments, from the real to the fantastic: Jungle, snow mountains, spaceship, bunker, and an alien city
- 6 weapons: Assault rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle, handgun, rocket launcher, and plasma gun – plus grenades & machine gun turrets on certain levels

FRANTIC MULTIPLAYER MODE
- 1-4 player Deathmatch locally or online on 5 different maps
- Play against your friends or the entire world through Gameloft LIVE!
- Worldwide leaderboards in the game & on the official website, www.near-orbit-vanguard-alliance.com

A TECHNOLOGICAL LEAP
- Full 3D rendered environments enhanced by highly detailed graphics
- 3 basic control schemes, plus a fully customizable interface
- An intense drama enhanced by cinematics and character voices

Join the fight for mankind's survival against the aggressive aliens known as Judgers in this immersive space opera.

N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance is an action-adventure video game for the iPad and other Apple products made for Apple by Gameloft. It was released on December 17, 2009, for iOS, WebOS and is one of the games containing the Gameloft Live online gaming service. It was later released on the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 on December 21, 2010, just five days after the release of N.O.V.A. 2. N.O.V.A Legacy, a remaster of the original N.O.V.A. developed by Gameloft Madrid, was also released for Android on the Google Play Store in 2017 and on iOS App Store in 2018.

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