Leona is one year old. Oh my god how time flies by so quickly......
Leona is one year old. Oh my god how time flies by so quickly......
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I have always been intrigued by the whole MMORPG but could never be bothered with them due to the monthly fee you have to play.
Anyway, I came across EVE in a sale and seeing how you get your first 30 days without paying the subscription, I thought 'What the hell?'
After installing the game, I entered the initial account setup process. Being a complete beginer and not wanting to bother with the manual (Comes on the instal disk as a PDF file) I chose my stats at random.
The character creation phase seems quite in depth ranging from your initial race (4 to choose from), your bloodline (a choice of 10) and your upbringing. Each choice opens up a selection relevant to the path you have chosen for your character.
The most exciting part of this for me was the ability to reconfigure your characters face. You start off with your base race face (try saying that 10 times in a row!) which you can then minupulate via sliders. Various aspects of the face then change depending on which slider you use.
Finally
you start the game. Here you are given your very first space ship (which you will spend all of your time on unless it is destroyed - in which case you are left in a pod to navigate back to the nearest space station to pick up a new ship!)
The tutorial covers all aspects of the game from mining asteroids to attacking other ships. It explans how to travel from point A to B via normal flying or by warping. If you need to travel further distances, you can make use of the handy stargates.
Eventually after being walked through the controlls, you get to go on a couple of training missions (just to get you started). These are the normal mission types that you would expect - make use of the skills you have just learned!
After the training missions have been completed you are ready to face the huge expanse of space.
However, before that, let us remember that we need to train ourselves. As with a lot of RPG's you fight, complete quests etc. and gain experience points. You can then spend these points on increasing your stats. With EVE it is a little different. You select a skill you want to learn and in x hours you have learnt it. If you want to learn the next level of that same skill it will take you longer to learn. The great advantage of this is that if you are offline then your are still learning the skill.
So, onto our fist mission. Whatever you choose to accept, you will be required to set off for a distant planet. Whether it is to deliver some notes to somebody or to rescue some slaves from a pirate ship it will still take you an absolute age to get there.
I found that most of my time was spent sitting waiting to arrive at my destination. I was bored. You select your destination and let the autopilot do the rest. 20 minutes later you arrive at said destination and dock at the required spacestation. You drop off or pickup whatever you are meant to and then fly back.
Okay, so I only had the basic noobie ship, but still the lack of interaction drove me crazy.
So, I still have my skills to train up. Click a button and you are learning (although how I'm not sure. Maybe a 56k link up to a computer like in The Matrix?)
Apart from that, I found that the music was pleasant to listen to and you have the option of changing this via a 'jukebox' control. Also, visually this game is amazing with plenty of detail on the spaceships and various surrondings. The only problem for me was playability.
There are thousands of people out there who obviously love this game and many I have spoken to (in Real Life) who think this game is the best thing since sliced bread.
The updates appear to happen on a regular basis (at least 3 patches in the 3 weeks I played) One of the future updates will apparently allow you to build your own space station - this makes for an intersting concept!
Personally I would advise you avoid this game however, don't just take my word for it. Visit the website yourself and download the game for free (Currently they are offering a 2 week period till the end of July 2004) - Normally if you download you don't get a free trial (This only comes if you purchase the game when you get the standard 30 day)
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I will admit that there is a steep learning curve to the game and it takes at least two weeks to get into it, but the real fun is taking advantage of the 'Multiplayer' side of the term MMORPG. Once you join a Corporation and get involved in group activities the real fun begins. You could play this game alone, but you will lose interest very quickly, you need to get in there and meet people to have a good time.
littlemissdrunk 13.07.2004 11:22
I played a 3 day demo of this and have to say i came to the same conclusion really.....there were only so many delivery/mining missions you can do before you get bored....and in a way I was almost preferring those endless moments of travel simply for their meditative quality lol L xxx
NURSE_BETTY 09.07.2004 12:52
heard quite a bit about this (mixed) but i bet loads of people check it out coz its a free trial!! mair x
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