Space, the final frontier.. blah blah. You may find yourself – as I have – disappointed that you did not end up being an astronaut like you planned to at age 6. All the cardboard, crayons, and football helmets I could find never got me to the moon… or even out of orbit. Fortunately Crowd Control Productions has made a wonderful MMORPG: Eve Online.
Having just released its newest expansion Dominion (and patch 1.1.1), Eve seems to be barely a wrist into their bag of tricks. Unlike the 2 month old demigods in WoW, the rookies of Eve will find themselves absorbed in a world not too much different than our own… for being set hundreds of years in the future.
The original premise is pretty easy to follow. Humanity, in all its greedy splendor, has raced through our own galaxy securing space, planets, and precious deposits mainly for corporate growth. At the end of this expansion, things again turn to war. Until one day a giant wormhole opens up in the far reaches of our known space to reveal a sister galaxy which later becomes known as New Eden. The first settlers find harsh conditions to face. Soon they are subjected to the worst imaginable fate, the collapse of the New Eden gate, and permanent separation from the worlds they called home.
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Several generations later, members from different settled races began returning to space to once again explore and conquer. The Amarr, religious zealots and slave traders, devout in their beliefs and sure of their purpose and actions. The Minmatar, tribalistic and resourceful, it was not until recently that they have had even a solar system of their own, after finally escaping the Amarrian regime. The Gallente, the only purely democratic federation, they strive to present a face composed of all the peoples of Eve. The Caldari, formerly attached to the Gallente federation, they proved the most powerful corporate and military force, eventually deciding to establish their own dominance and separate from the federation.
The character creation process is very involved, but not too complicated. As usual your race, lineage, and education/profession play a big part of your beginning attributes. They have even added an accelerated period of training for new characters to make sure you don’t spend too much time as a nooblet.
From the casual gamer (do a few missions or a bit of mining, then walk away and leave your character training), to the most aggressive gaming enthusiast (Venture to faraway nullsec areas with no rules but the rules of survival, or into massive wormhole environments uncharted by any other capsuleer), Eve Online offers something for everyone. Missions never grow short on objectives or money or even rare items both potent and valuable. Mining offers pathways to manufacturing or stockpiling minerals for sale to the highest bidder. Lastly, the PvP arena is in a word, massive, allowing for fleets of multiple hundreds to gather and fight. And these are just the tip of the iceberg. With multiple venues for control, conflict, fortune and fame, all on a single-shard server with over 5000 different systems to explore, gorgeously represented in pixel shader 3.0, the main thing to consider in Eve Online is: What would you like the point of your game to be?
Gameplay Type: MMORPG Control Type: Mouse action with hotkeys Payment: Subscription (several options), Time Code (also can be purchased with in game revenue)
Gameplay: 9/10
Story: 9/10
Graphics: 9/10
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Total Score(obviously) 9/10
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