N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance
Violent 1st person shooter with minimal blood.
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Based on 20 reviews
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N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance
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What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this super-realistic first-person shooter is violent but there's minimal blood. Online play poses no privacy risk as long as kids don't volunteer personal info.
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N.O.V.A. 3
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N.O.V.A 2 is a great game
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Is It Any Good?
N.O.V.A. is top-notch first-person shooter entertainment for older teens. You play an ex-Marine fighting aliens to save a space colony. Play starts in a steamy jungle and moves to gritty cargo ships. Fluid graphics and atmospheric sounds - birdsong, the crunch of boots, ragged breathing - make for terrific realism. The care to detail carries over to opposing online players, who appear as fully fleshed out soldiers, not just fleeting graphics.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
- Release date: December 17, 2009
- Category: Action Games
- Publisher: Gameloft
- Version: 1.1.0
- Last updated: August 23, 2016
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