I can only fully agree with the official review here, though I think for the many critic it was rated a bit too good. If you love a slow paced Privateer-line game, a calm space sim, you *might* like it. Evereyone else I can only advise to stay away from it, or by all means make the trial before buying it. I like the SWG Jump to Lightspeed and was an old fan of the "Wing Commander" series and the like, and expected something like that. FAR from it. Space is vast in EVE, and boring. Well, it is as nice as space can be, but ultimately I felt as alone as in a coffin. 90% of the time I gazed in my ship from the outside while some automatted process of travel or rarely combat occured. It has nothing of the direct activity of any Joystick-solo games you may think of the old days. You mine, buy and sell ressources and items to and from space stations. It is as boring and tedious as work, safe that WE pay for doing it.
The interface is cumbersome and un-intuitive and the camera always looks in the most uninteresting angle in combat. Really, I dont want to **** but it felt like a complex screensaver at most time. Surely a good alternative to counting sheeps, when you suffer from a sleep disorder.
I have no idea why they gave this game a fair rating, other than that it's possible they may be catering to a younger, less mature, more impatient, more immediate gratification, less thinking and more spoonfeeding, audie... Read Full Review
I don't blame Gamespot for overlooking this game. I did too, two years ago. But I tried it again 3 months ago and now I beat myself up for not doing so earlier. This is the most in-depth 'game' one will ever find. Ev... Read Full Review
