I know I shouldn’t be doing something similar… But I must…
EVE Online… A space simulation game that I started to love… Much more complicated than Microsoft’s Freelancer yet so much fun to play… AMAZING GRAPHICS… Boring jukebox… But you can always run your media player and listen to your own songs…
This game is almost automated… You don’t need to control the ship much because even when you’re fighting, all you have to do is lock, keep in gun range and click on the gun icon(s) to shoot… Same goes with mining… You can just keep it in a desired range or you can orbit around it in a desired range…
To go to a desired place is annoying… I’m having hard time going to a spot I have in mind or I want to go… If I’m in a mission, i need to right click on the space and warp to location or set destination (which means its few systems ahead)
The interesting thing is the skills… Unlike Freelancer, you can’t use weapons, use equipments, do researchs, do ship upgrades, ride ships and other stuff unless you fulfill the required skills needed… Gives the game the wonderful pain in the butt… Specially when learning a skill, it takes from minutes to DAYS!!!… The good thing is that if your skill takes 6 hours, you can log off and come back in 6 hours and skill would be learned…
You can as well form corporates (something like a guild), buy destroyers and battleships (you can’t do such thing in Freelancer), shoot other players (just becareful not to pick on the wrong ones), do researchs, build stuff from blueprints and alot of stuff that I haven’t figured out yet…
The ONLY thing that I didn’t like in this game is that you have to pay around $15… I can bare with it… its like 4KD if not less… It’s what you pay for WoW, FFXI and other MMORPG accounts…
The amazing things are, it works under Steam and it has a MAC version (I’m an anti-MAC but that really surprised me).
I’m sure not alot of people likes Space Simulation games… But hey, you have 14-days trail… Give it a shot then complain =P (Which is what I’m doing right now)
Click here to visit the game’s website
I am reminded of Mass Effect 😛
haven’t played it… and dont think i’ll be planning to do so… i might even ditch Counter-Strike:Source for this EVE =D
nice review well im checking it out for sure now.
you should… its fun =D
U forgot skills can take months xD
Currently training with 74 days remaining.
O mothership pilot that is.. most people never have to max that skill up to 5
oh yea… I think thats the only thing thats annoying in the game, leveling system…
but hey, it shows how good of a player you are =P
it is only for 14 days????and then what we can do?????
then you pay for the monthly subscription 😛