Eve Online (PC)

Ever played Elite or Beyond the Frontier games ? Well, this is a similar game but much, much bigger. This is going to be a detailed review of the game Eve Online and my experience playing it, be prepared for a long read. After playing this game for 6 months I am still nowhere near the level some people are and they, after 4 years, have not got everything in the game. Basically this is an ongoing game that cannot be completed. It has been estimated that if you want to be the best at everything in the game it would take 20years in real time. Eve is an MMOG, Massive Multiplayer Online Game, and ... more

EVE is one of those games that you will struggle to put down; the game itself grabs you from the outset. The graphics are nothing less than stunning; you don't even need a top end graphics card. The game play itself can be a little hard to grasp, however pick your friends and you will be well on the way to that big payout. SIGN UP ~~~~~~~ After you have created your account, you will be presented with three empty slots. Click on one of these slots and you will be asked some basic questions about the character you want to create. There are four basic races in the game, each one having ... more

I’ve been playing eve for 4 years now, which should give you an idea to how long and how addictive the game can be. I’ll try and summarise what I think are the important things to know; Eve is a MMO (massive multiplayer online) game, you chose and play a character that will inhabit a single universe with anywhere between 10 thousand and 50 thousand other players depending on the time of day. These players will be spread over some 5 thousand solar systems, all linked together though a complex network of stargates. Like real life these people will be diverse in their interests and goals. One of ... more

Well Eve Online is fairly well known, you may have heard of it described as either an intense large scale fleet based space combat simulator, or a boring slow-paced trading simulator. To be honest its a bit of both, sure there is some good PvP and sometimes PvE action, and the game is also extremely deep, which is rare for an MMO. However the game does suffer, possibly because it is deep, the game takes an extremely long time to achieve anything exceptional. Skills are achieved in a different way from most MMO's, skill training is queued up and will be learnt over-time, even when your ... more

Some time ago, long ago, when computers were based on model numbers, not the components you have plugged into them, when graphics were simple and sounds were, oh, I think we had to make the sounds back then. Oh, sorry, yes, OK. Back then one of the games that myself (and many of my friends) played was a space game called "Elite", which managed to live on through a few generations of computers (and players) but then, suddenly, nothing. Now, I could explain to the masses what Elite is, however, there would be little point. Why? Well, for those fans of Elite, they will get the message and give ... more