N.O.V.A. 3 emerges as a Nokia exclusive in India, regular release in the rest of the world [Updated]

Yesterday Windows Phone Cardinal posted sectional first footage of Gameloft's North.O.V.A. 3 for Windows Phone viii in action. We showed you lot just how the game plays, but we couldn't talk nigh the release appointment. Well, cheers to a little marketplace skid up on Microsoft'due south end, information technology quickly became apparent that N.O.Five.A. 3 would be coming out very soon indeed. In fact, information technology released in India ahead of the rest of the globe!

Now we know across the shadow of a doubt that N.O.V.A. 3 is this week's Xbox Windows Phone release. All Windows Phone 8 users with 1 GB RAM devices (cue complaints from 512 MB telephone owners and insensitive complaints well-nigh the original complaints) can now purchase the game for $6.99 or the regional equivalent thereof.

That early on Indian release creates a most unusual situation, nonetheless. Y'all run across, in India and Just India, Northward.O.V.A. 3 is a Nokia exclusive game. Not only that, only those Indian Nokia users get the game for free! The Indian release doesn't seem to exist set properly for Xbox Live yet, so multiplayer doesn't work - among other things. If you live exterior of the Commonwealth of India, nosotros suggest you buy the international release and support Gameloft for standing to bring high-quality titles like N.O.V.A. 3 to Windows Phone.

Supernova

The N.O.5.A. series is Gameloft'due south take on the Halo series. Subsequently all, at that place has never been an official mobile Halo game until this year. Just Halo: Spartan Assault is a third-person shooter and thus looks and plays a bit differently than mainline Halo games. Gamers who are looking for something closer to the kickoff-person shooter manner they've come to know and love will feel right at home with N.O.V.A. 3.

N.O.V.A. 3

The Northward.O.Five.A. 3 demo allows you lot to play the entire first level that we showed in yesterday'due south video completely complimentary and so you can make an informed purchase decision. You'll play as Kal Warden, a futuristic war hero on a mission to rescue an important McGuffin from enemy aliens. The game starts out in the ruins of San Francisco – which also happen to look a whole lot like mod day San Francisco. I kid!

N.O.Five.A. iii plays simply the world's most pop sci-fi console shooting series. The protagonist can run, gun, bound, and throw grenades. Yous won't see it in the section of the commencement level we played, only before long Kal fifty-fifty gets to pilot vehicles – including mechs. Accept that, Titanfall! And the campaign itself is extremely cinematic in nature, filled with fully voiced cut scenes that bring the story to life.

On top of an ballsy single-player entrada, North.O.V.A. three also comes with a fully-featured multiplayer mode. It works via local Wi-Fi or online. Upwardly to 12-players can join a game and participate in 7 dissimilar modes, including Free for all, Capture the Flag, Capture the Point, and more than. 10 of the game's Xbox live Achievements (which we posted here) are dedicated to multiplayer mode, so you'll definitely want to hop online if y'all want the total Gamerscore.

Update: We now have the international shop link and QR code!

Update 2: The Indian version has been removed from the Shop, presumably due to its cleaved Xbox live features. We'll let you know if and when it comes back.

N.O.V.A. iii – Windows Phone 8 – 1017 MB

Store Link - $vi.99 - All regions except Republic of india
Indian Shop Link - Free - Nokia sectional in Bharat (delisted)

QR: NOVA 3 QR: NOVA 3 India

Gameloft E3 update

The big Grand didn't have any Windows Phone titles to evidence off during E3 other than N.O.5.A. 3, but nosotros do expect to encounter more from them during Casual Connect adjacent month. On the E3 show flooring they have a number of new iOS titles including Modernistic Combat 5 (video here) and Asphalt 8, both slated to launch later this yr.

Let's hope they come to Windows Phone 8 too, and sooner rather than later! All gamers can practise to help that happen is buy the Windows Phone eight games they're selling in order to convince them that this market place is 1 they should continue to support.

Thank you to everyone who tipped the states virtually the Indian release, starting with Prodigy Hero and ending with Mark "Strudel" Tepper!

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