EVE Online www.eve-online.com Review

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rabbitfufu's Review of EVE Online www.eve-online.com for PC

6th Apr 2008

Overall Rating

2 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Graphics
    4.5 stars
  • Addiction Level
    4.5 stars
  • Multi-player
    Yes
Bad Points

When I started EVE I would have put this in the GOOD POINTS column but ultimately (and my abandon 52mil sp char) it played out as a negative. This game has a real DEATH PENALTY. What does that mean? In most MMO's there is no downside. If you die you lose NOTHING. In EVE that is absolutely not true. If your ship is lost, it is lost. No go back in my ghost and get all my stuff back, Its GONE. Thats a real death penalty. If you have a decent cash flow you are making 20 mil an hour in game play. A nice Battleship, loaded out, is 200 mil. That means if you lose a Battleship, you are set back 10 hours of your life, double that for all the other noise in the game. (Defend you home system, recruit people to your corp, move stuff around). This means that armature players in the game are quickly weeded out. If you are a player like this you may looes and it is painful to get your stuff back. So amature players are eliminated from the game as far as I am concerned. But the downside is that GOOD griefiers are common. And if you, a non-griefer, non-pvp get gaked, to bad. You are out 10 hours of your life to recover.


General Comments

This game is based on physics. It is all math based in my opinion. Compare that to so many fantasy games that are based on imaginary races/environments/magic. It then all becomes a burden on the developer to make it all hang together in a a realistic way. EVE does not have that problem, they are based on the basics of physics. This make the game real and relives the dev's of having to invent all that. They focus on story and game balance.

I played hard core EVE 3-12 hours a day for 3 solid years. I might have missed a total of 25 days over 3 years. I was addicted. I quit when I lost 3 engagements in one night due to my weak PC and OK network connection. What I lost in one night was going to take me nearly a month to recover. I realized I was not having fun, I was doing a job. I quit.

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