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Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance 3 (also known as N.O.V.A. 3) is the third installment of Gameloft's critically acclaimed N.O.V.A. series for keypad-based mobile phones, touchscreen Java phones, Android, and iOS, with a planned release for the BlackBerry Playbook coming soon. The game was released on the App Store on May 10, 2012 and on Android on June 4 of that same year. N.O.V.A. 3 falls into the science fiction action-adventure shooter genre. As with many of the action-adventure titles released by Gameloft, N.O.V.A 3's 3D version features Gameloft's multiplayer service Gameloft Live. Even though its predecessors were rather similar to Microsoft's Halo series, this game seemed to be more original, with Kal Wardin's appearance now akin to the Nanosuit of the Crysis series.

Gameplay[]

Campaign[]

Plot[]

Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance (N.O.V.A.) commander and protagonist Kal Wardin receives a distress call from his AI, Yelena, on the long-abandoned planet Earth. He crash-lands in the city of San Francisco and joins up with Echo One to re-activate communications and fight their way to the N.O.V.A. base. There, he finds out that N.O.V.A. has stolen a Judger artifact in the hopes that it could transform Earth back to the habitable planet it was. Kal is approached by Prometheus, who scolds the humans and the Volterites for being child-like. He tells Kal that the Volterites had discovered the location of more artifacts and were attempting to seize them as weapons of mass destruction. Prometheus sends Kal to a Judger Ship named Therrius, where Kal meets a rebel Psycher named Maz' Rah. Kal helps Maz'Rah take over Therrius. Once Kal retrieves the artifact, Prometheus immediately transports him to the location of the third artifact, the planet Boreas. Kal fights Volterites on the planet, and also many heavily armed thugs. Kal meets up with his old friend Rufus who aids him for the rest of the journey. When Kal and Rufus finally arrive at the location, Prometheus school teaches him to recover the artifact which is now in Volterite hands. Once there, Rufus and Kal split up. After Kal finds the artifact, he and Rufus find that Maz'Rah and Yelena are initiating a self-destruct system on the planet. The Kar'rak, controlled by Maz'Rah, kills Yelena. Kal destroys the monster and Maz'Rah turns on The Overseer, resulting in both of their deaths. The planet falls apart, as Kal and Rufus are teleported to safety by Prometheus.

Weapons[]

Main Weapons[]

Explosives[]

Purchasable Weapons[]

Enemies[]

  • Infected Marines:Dominion soldiers mutated by a Volterite parasite.
  • Stingers:Aerial mutated enemies which are equipped with plasma guns and a jetpacks.
  • Psychers:Volterites aliens with the ability to turn invisible and launch plasma blasts.
  • Mechs:Robotic vehicles used by enemies which have two machine guns and two missile launchers.
  • 4x4 V.2:Combat vehicles with the possibility of accommodating 2 passengers which are armed with a machine gun and a missile launcher attached to them.
  • Spiders:Robot-like creatures created by the Judgers for the purpose of terraforming dead planets.
  • Thug (Shakers):
  • Skull Crushers:Robotically enhanced aliens equipped with discs that launch long distances.
  • CyberTooths:
  • Large Cybertooths:

Bosses[]

Levels[]

  1. Homecoming - Kal Wardin returns to the earth and fights has way to the N.O.V.A HQ.
  2. Price of Loyalty - Kal Wardin is sent to retrive an artifact found by N.O.V.A, but is transported to another place by Prometheus.
  3. Lost ark - After being told by Prometheus to find 3 artifacts, Kal and his new fighting companion, Maz’Rah, work their way to get the ship Therrus restored.
  4. Seeds of life - Kal and Maz’Rah continue to fight their way in order to restore Therrus. Maz’Rah gives Kal the first artifact.
  5. Hourglass - Kal is taken to Boreas by Prometheus, and this results in finding an old friend to help him get the second artifact.
  6. Eye of the Storm - Kal and his old friend, Rufus, fight their way to get the third artifact.
  7. Ice and Fire - Kal is transported to Volteron and must fight his way through to stop the Volterites before they activate a wormhole. Kal must also save Maz’Rah from something.
  8. Meltdown - Kal destroys a generator and saves Maz'Rah, and is taken closer to the weapon.
  9. Hell's Gate - Kal and his friends fight their way to the Volterite temple in order to stop the artifact from activating.
  10. Shadows - In blind betrayal, Yelana is killed by Maz’Rah, and Kal defeats Maz’Rah, who then kills the Volterite Overseer.

Multiplayer Mode[]

Many multiplayer extensions/updates are in N.O.V.A. 3's 3D version:

Game Modes[]

  • Free-for-All: Kill or be killed. Whoever hits the kill limit first wins and ends the game. Whoever has the most kills if time runs out wins.
  • Team Deathmatch: Two teams (red and blue) battle each other. Whichever team hits the kill limit first or has the most kills wins and ends the game.
  • Freeze Tag: Team-based mode where enough damage that would normally kill instead freezes them. Freeze all enemy team members to score a team point. Stand by frozen teammates for 3 seconds to thaw them.
  • Capture the Flag: Each team has a base holding a flag. To score a team point you must take the opposing team's flag and return it to your base. Before scoring, your team's flag must be secured in your own base.
  • InstaGib: A Free-for-All mode where you and your enemies have a Railgun; any hit is a kill shot (since the beams do continuous DMG very fast to kill, a lucky player sometimes manages to run out of the beam and survive).
  • Team InstaGib: The same as InstaGib but team-based.
  • Capture the Point: Capture and then hold control of all points for 20 seconds to score a team point. Stand by a point to capture it.

Maps[]

Exclusive weapons[]

Freedom Edition[]

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The icon of N.O.V.A. 3: Freedom Edition

On October 16, 2014, The free version of the game would be released on iOS and on January 17, 2015 for Android devices, called Freedom Edition. The Freedom Edition has minor differences, those being a different info page in the main menu, locked 30fps and the bodies disappearing instead of slowly decaying away. In the game files, the cut voice lines (only the ending cut lines of Maz'Rah and Rufus are currently found) and the strings.gla featuring the original cut content ideas (such as a truck export mission, co-op, etc.) are not seen in Freedom Edition but are in Premium Edition. Freedom Edition also sometimes shows ads after dying.

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Removal From Stores[]

After the release of N.O.V.A. Legacy in 2017, N.O.V.A. 3 and its free version were removed from Google Play Store. However, only the Freedom version of N.O.V.A. 3 would be removed from the app store and the original version would remain for a while until in 2022 or 2023 it would also be removed. It's only available for the older IOS's and Androids. And since 2023, its servers have now been closed indefinitetly. But local servers are still open. And yet only a few players still play in those servers everyday.

Gallery[]

Promotional Images[]

Oficial Screenshots[]

Screenshots In The Game[]

Concept Arts and 3D Models[]

UI Artworks and Concept Arts[]

Concepts And Models For Characters[]

Concepts And Models For Enemies[]

Concepts And Models For Weapons[]

Environment Concept Arts[]

Miscellaneous[]

Videos[]

Trivia[]

  • On the map of the game Gangstar Vegas you can find a poster with an image of N.O.V.A. 3 promoting a musical themed to the saga of N.O.V.A. series[2]
  • In the mission "Infiltration" of Modern Combat 5: Blackout there is an easter egg in an office in which you can hear one of Kal Wardin's voice messages from the level "Homecoming"[4]
  • On YouTube you can find some animation tests of N.O.V.A. 3 published by one of the game's developers along with some animations made as a joke about the game. [5]

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