Incredibly slow paced yet incredibly awesome. Possibly the first "true" MMORPG.

User Rating: 9 | EVE Online PC
By Petrovsk | Review Date:
If you are anything like me, you might be tired of "MMO" developers cramming a story down your throat, hoping to keep you interested with the promise of more power by mimicking the raid-boss square dance of the guild before you. Or perhaps you are tired of instanced PvP and PvE, giving the impression that you are actually playing a cooperative RPG with no sense of human interaction or community whatsoever.

After providing the aforementioned rants, the wiser would tell me to try EvE Online. "No" I replied, "I don't really care for spaceships."

Oops. Spaceships be damned, EvE is truly one of a kind. EvE is a game where the biggest challenges, the most powerful people, the most dangerous people, the most righteous, the most backstabbing people are all players. Want goblins? GoonSwarm will be happy to overwhelm you. Want orcs? Its only a matter of time before you wander into a pirate-infested solar system.

There are no instances in EvE; you are thrust into a living world of 35,000 people who's only goals involve doing something to each other - be it acquiring more money, blowing them up, or forming the largest alliance in the universe. It is the game's best and worst aspect. Other players may provide you with the best gaming experience of your life or may just waste a day of your time bumbling about.

Make no mistake though, EvE is a PvP game to its core. If you're not blowing up someone else's ship, you're probably wrestling for their assets on the market or scrounging your way up for revenge. That means EvE is very cutthroat - you are not safe anywhere. The police won't protect you if your assassin is devoted enough and if you're not in an NPC corp, the police will happily accept bribes to turn a blind eye. Every time you leave a space station in a ship, everything on you and around you is money in the pot. At the same time, you will have a blast drumming up world-takeover schemes (or maybe smaller ones.)

That said, clearly it is not a game for everyone. Many a player has come and gone thinking they could mine or run missions without attracting the attention of others and have met a disappointing end. There is no consensual PvP in EvE. Only corrupt police.

Hundreds of MMORPGs have claimed to be online worlds while really only forcing cooperative marriages of convenience in a predetermined world. EvE Online is truly an online world; truly, massively, multiplayer.

P.S. Watch out for that learning speed bump. It's a doozy.

~Petrovsk

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