What would you like to see from a sequel to NOVA?
Remove Enemy Spawning (Or At Least Decrease Frequency)
Having enemies continuously spawn into an area is tedious at best and downright lazy game design at worst. In the original NOVA you would enter a room or expanded area of the level and it might be populated be four or five enemies. Once they are dispatched, typically by running around firing the shotgun wildly, portals start to appear and more enemies will spawn, almost in batches, and you have no real clue when this will end and it seems quite arbitrary when it does. Did the Xeno just decide to give it a rest and try again in the next room? In NOVA 2 we’d love to see enemy spawning removed entirely. Instead let the level design dictate the best places for enemies to patrol, increase the quality of the AI and make each confrontation more of a tactical challenge instead of artificially ramping up the difficulty by spawning waves of cannon fodder.
8 Player Multiplayer
Not being game developers ourselves we can’t speak to the feasibility of this request, but even if it was an iPhone 3GS specific function and limited to local adhoc, allowing two teams of four to face off would be superb fun. Sure 4 person multiplayer is enjoyable and can certainly help create that “Army of Two” style sense of camaraderie between each of the two team mates but we’re starting to hanker for some bigger team battles. Combine this request with the vehicular combat and NOVA 2 could become the must have iPhone game for every competitive core gamers.
Persistent Multiplayer Characters and Unlocks
One of the reasons Modern Warfare is such a popular multiplayer game is because of the superb persistent levelling and unlocks system. Every match played earns the player experience points which at certain brackets unlocks new weapons, gear and other advantages to help customise the multiplayer experience and tip things in your favour on the battlefield. Ngmoco’s Eliminate uses a similar system and has had no problems hooking players and keeping the gamer addicted to customising and unlocking gear for their character. If Gameloft implement a similar system for NOVA 2 it would have no problem dethroning Eliminate from the most played multiplayer FPS on iPhone.
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13 comments
Justil / 25th Jan 2010
Sk3ksis, how about you shut the hell up? Yeah, coop, 8 man multiplayer and MW style perks with vehicles sounds great. Also, more melee.
Kristen / 25th Jan 2010
Hahaha Pwned.
Dennis / 25th Jan 2010
haha dual weilding.. SMG's? pistold? umm what about putting a spin on a battle rifle... and better multiplayer player customizations... Achievements in multiplayer for suits and helmets and whatnot... or at least visual ranks....
Matt / 25th Jan 2010
The multiplayer suits and helmets and visual ranks idea was on page 2 ;) http://appgamer.net/features/2010/jan/23/nova-2-what-we-want/?page=2
Dennis / 4th Feb 2010
whoops didn't see the other page... haha no wonder it seemed short
ben / 17th Feb 2010
i say that the nova game was amzazing! but i would like more updates and a sequel like with new story and new person even maybe.. its so amazing! and exactly like halo and i love halo!
No-ge27 / 1st May 2010
Duel wepons a custom suits would be a nice feature to add
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Nicholas / 28th Jun 2010
There should be aiming on every weapon, also like 2 land vehicles and 3 aerial, they should also be a "energy sword" type of weapon that can deflect bullets, also not like 6 weapons more like 3 of each so like 21 weapons like COD:Zombies...
iwantNova2 / 5th Jul 2010
All of the above. They should make Nova 2 a prequel to Nova and have you on the ship that crashes on the planet in the first place. you should also be able to play as aliens in the multiplayer like in BIA2 with the axis and allies.
Sk3ksis / 23rd Jan 2010
How about some original settings and character designs? Would be a nice change from playing Halo jnr