The document provides a review and suggestions for improving two mobile games: Starfront Collision and N.O.V.A 2. For Starfront Collision, the reviewer suggests implementing hero units, more intuitive controls, and improving mission design and unit information. For N.O.V.A 2, suggestions include developing the main character Kal Wardin further, improving mission difficulty balance, and adding new weapons, abilities, and multiplayer voiceovers. Overall, both games are praised for their graphics and gameplay but have room for refinements to deepen strategy and character development.

1. Quang Khai Nguyen
Master of International Business
Xbox gamer tag: Lhaula
GP:11689

2. Configuration
• iPhone 4G
• iOS version: 4.3
• Free space: 10.2Go

3. I. Starfront Collision
1. Personal overview
2. Scenario
3. Gameplay
4. Unit information accessibility
5. Starfront vs. Starcraft
6. Warcraft III in space

4. I. Starfront Collision
1. Personal Overview
Cons
Pros Scenario understandings
Gameplay and control  Lack of audio during dialogues
 Logical and Intuitive
 A bit confusing
Graphics
 3D
 Color Full Map/landscape
Some gameplay flaws
 Unit Readability  Reforming a group is tricky
 No unit formation pattern
Audio (music & sound FX)
 Unit can block themselves
 Mission design: no win situation
 Clunky attack/move command

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2. Scenario
A confusing scenario
 Reading dialogues is boring…
 …and makes it harder to understand
 War between faction is not clearly introduce during mission
 Lacks of fun
To improve understanding: capture player’s attention
 Use of audio dialogues in parallel
 Use of fun facts: Easter eggs and cut scenes…
 Player needs to smile/laugh when playing Starfront …
 …this is exactly what Starcraft2 is all about :

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Too Random Organized
3. Gameplay
Starfront needs an automatic formation pattern
 For better unit readability
 Looks cleaner as well
 Spreading units allows easier selection
 Allows better army management…
… and thus improves gameplay
Implementation of SC2’s magic Box for:
 Ground
Melee
 Air Unit
Range

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3. Gameplay
Clunky Attack/move command
 Holding the screen location feels frustrating during intense battle Attack command
 Add the attack/move command to the action dashboard
Mission: “Calm before the storm”
 Army limit size reached 40/40
 Can’t produce anymore worker
 Can’t attack my own unit
 Can’t repair the radar
By adding the attack command and friendly fire:
 Would resolve both problem above
 Allows more flexibility

8. I. Starfront Collision
3. Gameplay
Miscellaneous
Building rally point and shortcut
 Taping a building then terrain should set a rally point (shortcut)
 Taping a building then unit should select unit
 To rally point a building to a unit, use the old fashion rally command in the
building action menu
Uneven mission difficulty
 Last consortium mission is hard
 No way to skip mission after chaining losses

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4. Unit information accessibility
Right now, only available in-game while playing the race
 Hard to familiarize with game mechanics and units
 Need a dedicated Webpage for Starfront unit explanation
or
 In game unit characteristic page
Starcraft 2 unit
website example

10. I. Starfront Collision
4. Unit Information accessibility
Other examples:

11. I. Starfront Collision
5. Starfront vs. Starcraft
What people like about SC2…
• 200-unit cap big army insane battle
• Strategy Depth
 Workers Harassment
 Bio Ball, drops, multi attacks
• Macro and micro
…Can t be reproduced in Starfront
• Due to technical limitations
• Gameplay limitations

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5.
2. Starfront vs. Starcraft vs. Warcraft III
However, Starfront could be a Warcraft III in space by
 Focusing on the micro aspect (Click and retreat)
 Increase unit size and life pool for player reaction
 Implementing hero mechanism

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6. Warcraft III in space
Unit cap comparison with Warcraft III
• Starfront: 40 effective army (without workers)
• Warcraft III: 90
-5 x2from gold workers + expansion
-12 from wood workers
Total: 68 effective army (Varies according to races)
 Roughly same proportion for army size

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6. Warcraft III in space
Keep Starfront macro concept minimum
 No farm building
 No worker management
 No wall in
Deepen Starfront micro concept by
 Implementing a hero's (leveling capacity, 1 active abilities, 1 passive ability)
 Slightly increasing unit size and life pool (to allow easier selection and player reaction)
 Each lost unit should impact the battle severely ( like Warcraft III)
 Since there is less unit than SC2, each unit should feel worthy
 implementing tax upkeep
 Create Meat Shield Units

15. 6. Warcraft III in space
Heroes examples:
Consortium: The Black Ops Warden: The prophet
 Ranged unit (enhanced version of snipers)  Caster
 Passive: Cloak  Passive skill: Healing Aura
 Active skill: Recon (scout ability)  Active skill: Mind Control
 Ultimate: Tactical nuke  Ultimate: Mass Teleportation
Myriad: The Reaper
 Melee unit
 Passive skill: Swipe (add splash damage to attack)
 Active skill: Charge (charge and stun unit)
 Ultimate: Berserk (increase movement/attack speed)

16. I. Starfront Collision
Conclusion
Because of the mobile limitation, Starfront can t reproduce SC2 gameplay
 No big battles, less strategy…
 Mobile controls are less effective than mouse and keyboard.
However it may reproduce some of Warcraft 3 mechanism
 Implementing Heroes (active and passive abilities, leveling and one ultimate)
 Focusing on micro (Click and retreat)
Heroes are cool and charismatic
 Player would be more attach to Starfront universe
 Every Warcraft III player has a favorite heroes (Demon hunter for me)

17. II. N.O.V.A 2
1. Personal overview
2. Kal Wardin
3. Gameplay
4. Multiplayer

18. II. N.O.V.A 2
1. Personal Overview
Cons
Pros Very few
Gameplay
 Easy to handle and fun to play
Difficulty is uneven:
 Gyroscope control helps a lot  Some turret session
 Each weapon feels unique  Bike session
 Varied gameplay (hack, vehicle  Last boss
FPS)…
Graphics and audio Room for improvements:
 Nice and detailed graphics  Build up Kal’s reputation
 Soundtrack is very good  Accessory management
 Weapon sound is great
 Create more accessories

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Kal Wardin, shaping a up legend
Build up more reputation around Kal Wardin
 Not much is been told about Kal in N.O.V.A 2
 People must talk about Kal Wardin through the campaign
Visual identity
 Kal’s armor/HUD looks awesome…
 However the helmet visor looks mediocre
 Looks to fly-ish Looks alright
Audio identity
 Kal’s needs a stronger audio identity…
 …with a recurrent theme music

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Gameplay
Implementation of quick time events
 With cool interactive cut scenes (like resident evil 4) …
 …would enhance Kal’s awesomeness
 Gameplay would be more varied
Accessory button configuration
 Accessory button is too close to the attack button
 Mistapping often happens
 Prevent mistapping by putting more space between the 2

21. II. N.O.V.A
Gameplay
Mission difficulty (played on normal)
 Last boss is ridiculously hard and frustrating…
 … which led to some complaints
 No way to reduce difficulty during campaign
 Difficulty is uneven during certain parts :
(Big red dog, some turrets and vehicles session)

22. II. N.O.V.A
Gameplay
Kal’s Arsenal
Weapons comments and suggestion
 Homing weapons (besides Rocket launcher) would have been a nice addition
 The laser gun ( or rail gun) feels weak .
 Laser gun should shoot through environment (combined with a X-ray accessory)
 Grenades needs a wider area of effect and why not a stun effect
 Sniper rifle should have more bullets in the charger to allow a better synergy with
slow time accessory

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Gameplay
Kal’s arsenal
Accessories in general
 Accessories sounds boring, rename it suit upgrades
 The synergy between shield energy and accessories feels frustrating…
 …Accessories must have its own pool of energy
 Disc accessory feels useless compared to shotgun (rather waste one bullet than energy)
Accessories suggestions
 Shield Overdrive: reduces damage taken by 50%
 X-ray vision: for cloak detection + laser gun combination (which can shoot through walls )
 Damage boost, speed boost, decoy, cloak…
 Homing AI: Allows energy guns to have homing bullets

24. II. N.O.V.A
Gameplay
Implementation of an E.S.D management system (Energy, damage, Shield)
Energy, speed bonus
1. Speed increased
2. Faster energy regeneration
Shield bonus
1. Regeneration improved Damage
2. Damage reduced 1. Reload time reduced
2. Damage increased

25. II. N.O.V.A
Gameplay
How can a player use E.S.D
E Energy, speed bonus:
This perk would have been so helpful for the last
boss. It would allow running between rockets
S and bullets.
D
E Shield bonus:
During turret session, players has no cover and
hence is vulnerable. Shield bonus would improve
S D player’s durability.
E
Damage bonus:
Some enemies take a while to kill such as bosses
or mechanical unit. Damage boost would be
S D
welcome.

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Gameplay
Pop-up display for EDS E
S D

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Multiplayer
Implementation of voice over
Chain kills must be awarded with a voice over like Unreal/Halo:
 « Boom, Headshot »
 Double kill
 Triple kill
 Godlike!
 Holy ****!!!
Kills streak should be awarded
Would bring more fun factor to the game

28. II. N.O.V.A
Conclusion
Polished game in almost every way
 Sharp graphics
 Good soundtracks that change during action
 Sounds effect (especially during weapon reloading) are great
 Very easy to handle (thanks to the gyroscope option)
Room for improvement and suggestion
 Kal Wardin is cool so far. But he has the potential to outclass “Master Chief”
 By Implementing a recurrent theme music to Kal
 By building up his reputation through de game (people must talk about him)
 ESD system would allow more flexibility and gameplay during certain delicate mission