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Summary: Fantastic Game!
Review: Eve Online is an MMO, a massively multiplayer online game, set in a futuristic, space-based, science-fiction environment. Your character is a spaceship captain, and the gameplay revolves entirely around space, there is no "planetside" aspect to the game.The universe of Eve is huge, diverse, cleverly constructed and varied. The backstory has divided the core of the Eve universe among a number of "empires", or states, among whom a fragile peace prevails. Outside of this substantial core, beginning at the state borders, player groups hold sway, exercised through a shifting set of alliances. The developers of the game have taken a good deal of time to set up a deep, interesting universe and backstory, and this is regularly updated in the form of news about the evolving story on a near daily basis, helping to create an interesting, immersive environment. The gameplay involves (1) training skills (which in Eve is completely time-based, and which also takes place when one is not online) -- and there are hundreds of possibilities here -- (2) earning money through mining, trading, running missions, or crafting and selling, (3) gradually upgrading ships as you earn more money and develop higher skills -- both upgrading equipment on existing ships and upgrading to a new class of ship --, (4) joining a "corporation" (essentially a guild), to play more intensely with other players, cooperate to achieve more difficult tasks and, eventually carve out a piece of space for your own. The variety of paths you can follow, and places you can explore makes the game constantly fresh and exciting to play, because it is very easy to switch gears to do something else for a while if doing one thing, such as mining, is leading to boredom. Combat features in the game, both Player-vs-Player (PvP) and vs. NPC attackers. The game features a "security rating" for each system that dictates to what degree PvP is tolerated (higher security systems do not permit it, and the attacking player will be killed by the police), as well as the degree of difficulty of NPC attackers. The combat system is less tactical than some other games (you are not in a cockpit, and your manual control of the ship is not as important as in a cockpit based game) and depends much more on your character's skills and ship outfitting and equipping, together with a clever choice of what weapon to use against whom and at what range. Combat is plentiful if you wish it, and can be avoided if you don't, yet again reflecting the overall design of Eve which lets the player decide what he or she wants to do, rather than forcing a certain path on the player. The graphics are sharp, realistic and beautiful. The in-game music complements these great graphics very well. In all, from the presentation aspects, the game is a marvel to behold. The entire game runs on one server (it has set records for this, recently at over 10k people on the same server at once). CCP, the developers, stand solidly behind the game, and repurchased the rights to the code from Simon & Schuster so they could control the development and marketing of the game more closely, and this shows. If you are at all interested in space games, this is one heck of a great game to try out. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Good Game, with one flaw
Review: I have played Ultima Online, Everquest, and Anarchy Online. For my tastes, this bests all three because of it's rewarding team (corporation) based gameplay. It is also pleasing that everything so player driven and the next free expansion or patch, known as "shiva", looks to make the game so much better. As a late adopter of the game. The one problem I encountered, wasn't that it was hard to catch up to those who had played since the beginning, but rather it was too easy. You can buy items and money(known as Isk) on ebay. I was not ready to put down an additional $100 for 100 Million Isk. Pleanty good to keep me busy until Pirates of the Burning Sea comes out
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Summary: Best MMORPG so far
Review: Eve is by far the most polished, well balanced MMORPG I've played so far. First off there is NO level grind. You acquire skills in real time, choose skill X to train, skill X takes X Days/hours/minuets etc. The higher the skill level the longer it takes. You character attributes are taken into account in the training length. Your character keeps training even when you're off-line. Because skill training works this way you no longer have to worry about leveling, you can spend time doing what ever you feel like without feeling like you are "wasting" time you could use to level. Consensual PvP, NPC killing, Missions (read"quests"), and in-depth player/npc based trade system, mining/resource gathering, manufacturing, a working economy, it all in Eve. Huge world, I mean the first time you open up the galaxy map it simply blows your mind. Graphics are very sci-fi Babylon 5. Sound gets repetitive but you can play your own music in game. Very solo/casual player friendly game.
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Summary: Eve - Greatness
Review: Eve is a great game and a joy to play even though the learning curve can be difficult. But who wants to play something that is always easy right? A lot of reviews have touched on the game aspects of the game, but I would like to address the people that gave the game bad reviews. They state it gets boaring and repetitive. Yes, it can be unless you decided to be come part of the playerbase and stay busy. If you just get in game and mine in your basic ship it will take you forever to get anywhere, you need to get into a bigger ship faster, mine a little cash, and work your way up. Joining a corporation makes this step much much easier. But mining for ores and selling is only a small fraction of things that you an do in this game. When you get tired of mining, then hunt npc's, when that gets tiring, do some market trading with commodidets and ores. when you get tired of that buy a few blue prints and build a few items, when your done with that, run some missions and then procede to reserach missions (where you can get non-buyable blue prints, very rewarding), when your done with that hunt some players, explore the systems, run blockades, find "safe spots" where people leave things out in open space for easy access and steall there ships :) Participate in alliance operations, patrols, as well as chating with friends. There is just so much to do and many many ships that you can fly there is no reason to get board with this game. Cheers
Mike P.
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Summary: Play Eve with your monitor turned off!!!
Review: There are 3 simple steps to playing Eve "offline".
1. Tape a rock to your monitor.
2. Stare at it for several hours.
3. Throw $12 a month in the trash. Seriously - don't buy this game. Go to the homepage and read the forums. You know it can't be a good game when there are threads wit titles like "What do you play while you are playing Eve?". It's a timesink and little else.
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Summary: Eve Online
Review: Well, all i can say is that i've been playing it for aprrox 3 weeks... And i think its Absoulutely Brilliant... :)
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Summary: Worst Online Game Ever!
Review: Don't believe the punks hyping up the game. I've played since May 2003 and I've been thru the ups and downs, the bugs, expolits, scams, deceptions, and outright shameful gameplay by heartless liars. You can play the game for 2-3 months, 4-5 hours a day, and lose everything in a few seconds to some scam artist. The game is one big pot of lies and deceptions. Go ahead and fly around the universe waiting for the next lamo to backstab you. It is the worst game in the history of all video games. You'll have to quit you job or work 2 jobs just to play this game. Not to mention the customer support sucks. You lose a ship worth 120 million to a game bug or an expolit and all they tell you is "Oh well, sorry". The montly fee is not worth it at all. Its a pack of lies and a bundle of trouble for you. The only people sticking around are the massive corps slaving out new members to sell game money on Ebay! Yes! You heard me. Massive corp CEOs are sitting back and making you all work for them and then they turn around and sell tons of items and cash on Ebay for HUGE money! Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere for an online game... trust me.
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Summary: Quite honeslty, this game is a rip-off
Review: No customer support - when you get stuck in the game there is never anyone about to help you out. Empty promises - much of what is/has been promised does not exist, and by my 4 months experience not much will ever be delivered, and if it is, perhaps by late next year. Paying £10 a month for a beta - this game is riddled with bugs and terribly poorly balanced. Very good idea, very bad implementation - the non-pvp elelments of the game become boring very quickly leaving only the PVP aspects which are severely crippled and badly out of balance. Sadly things arent getting better, they're getting worse as the company insists on believing that carebears are thier future market. After a very short time there is simply only two things to do in this game - mine ore and die from boredom or engage in the seriously out of whack PVP and die from lag and bug exploits. Declining player base - yes, people are leaving in droves for some or all of the reasons above - see www.eve-i.com. I wouldnt be surprised if this venture files for bancruptcy next year some time. Dont buy it, its just another case of a company jumping on the massive multiplayer bandwagon and trying to make a quick buck off you. It'll take you a few months to realise this and then you'll feel ripped off that you bought the game and paid for the monthly subscription.
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Summary: Good game, but still some bugs.
Review: This is an OK game. I started it 3 days ago, with the help of my corp, I got a 300,000 game cash bonus, and a new ship to mine with. The player community is very helpful, and as long as you are in a high security space zone, you don't have to worry much about pirates. The draw down is that this game still has a lot of client bugs. The windows some times don't work right, and the ship would get lost in space, but the GM is always a good help, they can recover your ship in about 10 min. I just whish they had characters too, instead of just the ship.
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Summary: EVE Online Review
Review: This review is presented as one player's opinion and not as fact. 1. The game documentation is insufficient. The manual that comes in the boxed version of the game together with the online game information do not describe or adequately explain many important aspects of this game. 2. The EVE universe has some inhabitants, known as grief players, whose game enjoyment comes from giving other players grief, such as by killing the characters of other players, stealing other players' game money or other assets through a variety of scams, or just taunting and bullying other players. New players, who do not know the rules, are easy and favorite targets of grief players. Being ripped off by grief players can be avoided by becoming familiar with the game rules and approaching other players with skepticism and vigilance. In addition, it is hard to play the full EVE game and avoid having your character killed by grief players because EVE, unlike EverQuest and other successful MMOGs, does not permit its customers to choose a non player-versus-player game experience. You can try to avoid having your character killed by grief players by remaining a member of a new player corporation, so that other players do not declare war on you, and staying in high security space. These measures are not foolproof and prevent you from enjoying most of the fun and interesting activities offered by this game. Due to the relative ease with which grief players can act in EVE, I would not be surprised if this game is something of a magnet for this type of player. In any case, I found that playing EVE was just not fun because of grief players. 3. The character naming filter also has issues as there are some characters with names that are offensive due to vulgarity or racist overtones (I encountered two characters named after Hitler, for example). 4. The game does have some bugs and exploits and is not fully implemented and customer service is not always good, but I could live with these flaws. What turned me off was #2 above.
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