N.O.V.A. 3 and the Mall Chicken

    Hey, everyone. Nice to see you. It is now quite late on a Thursday night, Friday morning. I bought N.O.V.A. 3, the space shooter, when it came out on Wednesday night. The graphics are awesome and the gameplay is fun. Let me quickly make one negative point. There should be an easy mode that is truly easy, so you could enjoy playing and making progress. Also, if I wanted a puzzle game, I'd buy a puzzle game. It took me a while tonight to figure out a way to escape from a building that I had been fighting in. What they wanted me to do was this: they wanted me to jump on a sofa and bounce over the sofa to exit an area, rather than get electrocuted by live electrical lines hanging from the ceiling.
    Let me also say that this game is a huge 1.57 Gigs. Over a year ago, I opined on these pages that new games with astounding graphics and play, plus new I-Pads with marvelous technology, would drive each other's sales. Well, I called it, I must say.
     This is a game which has the good sense to borrow from other games. For instance, it uses the slow-motion feature made popular by Max Payne. It gives you abilities like Paralyzing and electrical shock attack, possibly borrowed from Mass Effect. It gives you a store with in-app purchases like... every game on earth, almost.
   You play as Kal Warden, space marine and genuine tough guy. You have a running feud with the Volterites, which has been the means by which you have made a rep for yourself. You are sent to Earth, an Earth which is now a dead planet. When you crash land in San Francisco, the deal is on, baby. You arrive in the middle of a shootout and of course, you are ready to rock and roll.
     Before I forget, there are 10 levels, with varying landscapes to fight through. During my battle in lovely San Francisco, I saw a city in ruins. Those humans I can't save, will be avenged. Let my words serve as an early warning. Hah, hah.
   The coolest thing about this game, thus far, is certainly the flying enemies. When you shoot them they fly crazily to a crash landing, leaving a smoke trail. It looks very cool and will become a favorite of everyone, I'm sure. One word about the flying Volterites. The auto aim feature which targets an enemy when you hit the scope button? This doesn't target the flying guys, so be aware of that.
    So far I have fought in a deserted supermarket, skyscrapers and the city streets. I ran across some friendly soldiers, whom I have teamed with. They are good men and it is an honor to serve with them. They revere me, Kal Warden, for my past exploits in N.O.V.A and N.O.V.A 2, obviously.
   This is a great game and a must have for those of you who like shooter games. I would have blogged about it before now, but my internet service has been out for 24 hours. It is now Saturday morning. Drag.
     I know you're wondering if this game involves a chicken at a mall. No. We went to a mall yesterday and it was so weird because there was a chicken running all over the place. The traffic was crazy and the little dude was in danger of being flattened. It was stranger because he crossed streets at corners, like a person would do. There are no areas that a chicken might deem as a good dwelling place for 5 miles and I don't know how he got there. I suspect that this chicken became 'self-aware' and found out that he was doomed to grace someone's table, possibly that person who has been feeding him. He was so horrified that he made a break for life and liberty. I wish him well.
    From the green retreat, I'm CE Wills.