EVE Online www.eve-online.com Review

Overall Rating

Very, very, very addictive space themed game. Players from around the globe converge in this single server online game. Be a space pilot looking for riches, you can mine astroids, be a pirate, be a trader, or you can set up your own corporation with other players and declare wars. If you like strategy games with a twist, this game is for you.

Long learning curve but is very highly rewarding. Dont expect to fly the biggest ships with the biggest guns in your first month.

Eve Online Be one of four races, each with its own in depth history. Specialize yourself in one of many trades, with the option of changing at any time. Or you can be a jack of all trades. It has been awarded many titles for graphics and game play, with regular expansions to increase playability further. "EVE is a world far away from mankind's original habitat, planet Earth. How far away, and where, no one knows. Humans got there through a natural wormhole, and gazing upon a sky never before seen, were completely unable to determine the whereabouts of this new world. From the system of New Eden, where the gate of EVE that once led to the old world lies, humans expanded in all directions at a great pace, exploring and colonizing. Then, seemingly out of the blue, the EVE gate collapsed in an apocalyptic catastrophe of a scale never before witnessed by the human race, ruining the New Eden system in the process. Thousands of small colonies were left in isolation to fend for themselves. For millennia they endured on the brink of extinction and only a handful survived. Of those surviving colonies, 5 were to rise up and become the major empires that hold between them the balance of power in the world of EVE today. These are: the Amarr Empire, the Gallente Federation, the Caldari State, the Minmatar Republic and the Jovian Empire, plus several small independent factions and states. For more than a century the five empires have lived together in relative peace. They've strived hard to maintain this peace, as each of them realizes only too well the grave consequences of a massive inter-stellar war. Recent technological breakthroughs in FTL travel, and the ensuing increase in space travelers, has shaken, but not broken the fragile peace - at least not yet.

Members' Comments onIcegoblin's Review

• Ugleb on 4th Aug 2005

  This is certainly the MMO that has appealed to the most, and rarely disapoints. There are several 'technical' attractions for me that put EVE-Online ahead of the other games out there.
  
  The game is regularly and constantly being expanded and developed, more contant comes in, new ships, game mechanics updated, the map itself recently underwent significant changes, with new routes being created and some removed. Players can now claim soverignty over star systems and build their own space stations. The developers release major new upgrades and overhauls so significant that they are best compared to expansion packs. And they are free, you don't have to go out and buy another box to access the new areas or something.
  
  EVE is played on a single 'shard',in other MMO's you play on a server with a number of other players who also picked that server shard. In EVE-Online everyone plays on the same map together, the community isn't split up. If you hear about a certain group of players, you can go find them.
  
  In most MMO's in order to progress and learn new skills you have to complete certain tasks. Kill a moster, gain XP. Get a certain amount of XP and you level up. EVE has no level system, and your skills develop over time. If you go to bed your character continues to develop. You just focus on acquiring cash to buy equipment or implants which speed up your learning time. I find this takes away the xp grind and is great for those players who dont have alot of time to spend bashing rats.
  
  I hope those points help to give a better idea of how the game works and some of its unique points. Give it a go, it's good fun. :)