Epic Battles, Ships that go "PEW PEW" (Eve Online - the Second Genesis (PC))

Member Name: bored_at_home

Product:	Eve Online - the Second Genesis (PC)
Date:	11/01/09 (13 review reads)
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Advantages: Unbelievable graphics, great sci-fi feel with enormous spaceships, aimed at people with limited time

Disadvantages: Not much point in playing alone, you are never safe from other players attacking you

EVE is aimed at the mature gamer and bends over backwards for them. You earn skills in real time and need only log on to talk with your friends or change which skill you are learning. EVE is designed to make team-work absolutely essential and takes this to an epic proportion.

The basic premise is that you fly a ship and do whatever you want with it, EVE offers limited amounts of content (something to shoot or something to mine) but generally points you toward forming guilds and creating alliances / starting wars. Over time they've leant toward enormous ships that require guilds of 50 people to unite to afford them.

The community is adament that a new player can make an equal contribution to the universe and have something to do. This is definitely true to a certain extent, EVE focuses heavily on 'fleet' battles where anything up to 150 ships are on each side of a player created battle. In this sort of scenario you will need one of each type of ship - ships with big guns cant hit small ships and small ships cant take down big ships on their own etc.

EVE is full of arbitrary rules from years of balancing and you either love or hate these i.e. If you leave a space station you must wait X seconds before returning.

They've added in-game voice that works really well and are quick to respond to the demands of the community. A lot of people chose to follow a non-combat path through the game and they've made endless strides to allow this.

EVE is a PvP only game, even in 'safe' areas you are never truly safe - suicide killing is common, where the police kill them but they kill you. The graphics are truly groundbreaking following a recent revamp but any old PC can run the 'old' version of the graphics.

If you're looking for a community (rather than a strict game) and like big space ships that go "Pew Pew" then EVE could be right for you.

Summary: Addictive if its fit your mindset