Gameloft‘s awaited first person shooter NOVA - Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance arrives tomorrow, December 17! In case you’ve been missing out, here’s the newest gameplay trailer for you.

God forbid you have NOT heard of the game before, here’s the description from the official NOVA site:

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., the Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance. Against his will, retired marine hero Kal Wardin is forcefully returned to active duty to prevent mankind’s annihilation.

Ya, it’s HALO for iPhone, that’s what we thought too

Features

• An epic single-player campaign with 13 levels set in the jungle, snow, spaceship, bunker and an alien city
• 2~4 players in Local & Online Multiplayer Deathmatch over Wi-Fi (2 players via Bluetooth connection) in 5 maps
• Worldwide leaderboards in the game & on the official website, www.near-orbit-vanguard-alliance.com
• 6 weapons: Assault rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle, handgun, rocket launcher and plasma gun ? plus grenades & machine gun turrets in certain levels
• Full 3D rendered environments enhanced with highly detailed graphics

Contest

Gameloft’s running a contest with quite a few things to win. Grand prize wins a iPod Touch and a $100 iTunes Gift Card!!! Then there’s 2-10th place who win iTunes Gift Cards (which amounts shrink depending on what place you won).

It’s pretty simple. It’s a Twitter based contest so you will need a Twitter account. They will tweet different missions, to which you must reply with one of the “actions” they have at the contest account (like #jump , #runfwd , etc). Good luck.

Who’s Excited?

WE ARE! Are you? It’s the most anticipated title this holiday season. Will you buy it IMMEDIATELY? Comment below!