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N.O.V.A.: Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance

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…

80 17 December 2009

N.O.V.A.: Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance is an adventure developed by Gameloft, released 17 December 2009 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and iOS.

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What N.O.V.A.: Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance is

N.O.V.A.: Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance is an adventure game developed by Gameloft and released in 2009. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

N.O.V.A.: Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What it launched against

N.O.V.A.: Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance launched on 17 December 2009, within three weeks of Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Darksiders, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks and Final Fantasy XIII. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Darksiders, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Final Fantasy XIII.

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N.O.V.A.: Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance was released on 17 December 2009 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and iOS.

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