Gaming: EVE Online
EVE Online is a game that I had seen previews way back in 2003 but lost track of. This weekend I found a 14 day license to try it out. Wow, what an amazing game.
So what is EVE? Well it's a complex space RPG game. I say complex because there is so much to do; mining, killing pirates, creating game objects, running courier missions, being the boss of a big corporation. The sky's the limit, or I should say, the universe is the limit. EVE's world is huge! There are so many systems to visit, with spacestations, deadspace complexes, planets, asteroids fields and people.
You play as a character in this universe but you only see your persona as a static image. It's not like World of Warcraft where you play as your character, on screen. In EVE you play as your ship. This is fine as most of the time you are in space, fragging pirates, or mining for some cash. The world is very player influenced. Most of the items in the game are made by players.
The game resembles, at it's core, like and old BBS game called Trade Wars. The object of the game, god only knows, to have fun and make a lot of money. The skill system is quite ingenious, skills are trained while playing, but there is no experience points from killing pirates, or from doing anything in the game. Your skills are learned in real time. Let's say you decide to bring you Frigate skill up from level 2 to 3, then it would take let's say 9 hours. During those 9 hours, you can play, be logged off, it does not matter. 9 hours later your skill will have been upgraded. This is actually a really nice way doing it since not everybody wants to go kill pirates for experience. There is so many ways of making money in this game that it would be impossible to have experience points given for doing stuff in the game. There are also no classes, so you can be a good pilot and a good miner if you wish so. You buy skills like you would buy equipment. It's a bit like The Matrix, skills are learned by downloading them into your brain.
As you can see from the screenshots, this game is just beautiful. Each system has a very nice background. The effects just fit correctly; when warping, depending on the distance you warping too, you might not go fast enough to see the warping tunnel. It's little details like that make this game so immersive.
As a World of Warcraft player, I have to say that I thought that WoW was complicated (my first online game experience) but when I started EVE, I knew then that WoW is very easy. EVE is huge! I recommend it to anybody to try.
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EVE Online
EVE 14 day trial (From Penny-Arcade)
So what is EVE? Well it's a complex space RPG game. I say complex because there is so much to do; mining, killing pirates, creating game objects, running courier missions, being the boss of a big corporation. The sky's the limit, or I should say, the universe is the limit. EVE's world is huge! There are so many systems to visit, with spacestations, deadspace complexes, planets, asteroids fields and people.
You play as a character in this universe but you only see your persona as a static image. It's not like World of Warcraft where you play as your character, on screen. In EVE you play as your ship. This is fine as most of the time you are in space, fragging pirates, or mining for some cash. The world is very player influenced. Most of the items in the game are made by players.
The game resembles, at it's core, like and old BBS game called Trade Wars. The object of the game, god only knows, to have fun and make a lot of money. The skill system is quite ingenious, skills are trained while playing, but there is no experience points from killing pirates, or from doing anything in the game. Your skills are learned in real time. Let's say you decide to bring you Frigate skill up from level 2 to 3, then it would take let's say 9 hours. During those 9 hours, you can play, be logged off, it does not matter. 9 hours later your skill will have been upgraded. This is actually a really nice way doing it since not everybody wants to go kill pirates for experience. There is so many ways of making money in this game that it would be impossible to have experience points given for doing stuff in the game. There are also no classes, so you can be a good pilot and a good miner if you wish so. You buy skills like you would buy equipment. It's a bit like The Matrix, skills are learned by downloading them into your brain.
As you can see from the screenshots, this game is just beautiful. Each system has a very nice background. The effects just fit correctly; when warping, depending on the distance you warping too, you might not go fast enough to see the warping tunnel. It's little details like that make this game so immersive.
As a World of Warcraft player, I have to say that I thought that WoW was complicated (my first online game experience) but when I started EVE, I knew then that WoW is very easy. EVE is huge! I recommend it to anybody to try.
[ Links ]
EVE Online
EVE 14 day trial (From Penny-Arcade)
posted by Jason at 12/08/2005 11:34:00 AM
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