BNBGAMING's Martin Watts writes: "When Gameloft announced earlier this year that the N.O.V.A. series would be returning to iOS (and a lot sooner than many of us thought), I was positively excited. Yes, it may be a rip-off of Halo and Crysis, but you can’t blame Gameloft for doing what very few other developers have managed: successfully bringing across the home system experience to the smartphone and tablet market. N.O.V.A. 3 could well be considered the new standard in this regard."
N.O.V.A. 3 is developed by Gameloft, a company that likes to jump in on the trends of pop culture with games like Ice Age Adventure, Spider-man Unlimited and Captain America The Winter Soldier The Official Game. Jumping on the trends isn’t a bad thing, however, especially when you do it well.
A write up on a 3 yr old Android game? I'm confused about why this is on here
Hardcore Droid - What is N.O.V.A 3: Freedom Edition?
It’s a showcase. An exhibition. Nay, a love letter to the modern console FPS brought to us by the mobile developers at Gameloft. It attempts, with much success, to provide a true FPS experience on mobile devices with as few compromises as possible. To show that our perceptions of the limitations of a particular medium are in no way indicative of the type of shooter experience it can provide. More to the point, N.O.V.A. 3 is a sci-fi game based around famed N.O.V.A. commander Kal Wardin making a trip to the long dormant planet of Earth, to answer a distress call and eventually unravel a plot much larger than himself, but not quite as large as the considerable inventory of weapons available to him to stop the looming threat behind it all.
"Keep your iron sights on these seven tablet shooters the next time your trigger finger gets an itch."
I've been steering well clear of FPS and TPS games on my iPad, but for a few quid this seems like it's worth a go.
I'm afraid to say it doesn't break the trend - it's still pretty fiddly. The interface is improved, but otherwise, like you said, it lacks the feel of the classic mouse/keyboard and even joypad setup :(