EVE Online

A robust tutorial. Classless character builds. Overwhelmingly open-ended gameplay. Ship designs you’ll need to wear a bib for. And a breed of PvP that’ll make adrenaline junkies sign up for rehab. Sci-fi worshipers: This is your Mecca.

A fresh breath in the MMORPG genre. In some respects it's ELITE on steroids.

Hardcore opportunists and lone-wolf types have a vast cosmos to win here, but more casual gamers are advised to tread cautiously... to research, manufacture and carry a big stick.

As expectations are put aside and the game is explored for its own merits, it begins to provide a vast sense of potential that few games can muster. [June 2003, p.97]

Probably the best looking, worst playing space-based MMO I've ever spent time with. [Aug 2003, p.101]

Little more than an exercise in monotony. [Sept 2003, p.77]

It all comes down to you and a rock, floating together in space, with all the action and serene beauty of the docking sequence from "2001." Play some Strauss and go make another sandwich. [Sept 2003, p.78]

It's like a mix of combat air traffic control and piloting a submarine. A great game for people 40 and up who find almost everything else too childish and wasting of their entertainment time.

Kind of game you love or hate. Best thing to do is try it. Free trial: ****/trial/?invc=9746da98-b438-44a8-bf8d-06fed2a603a3&action=buddy

On hell of a solid space game. It's very cerebral and convoluted. Much of the learning curve has been leveled out, but it is still one of the highest in the industry. You should know that this is a true SANDBOX. You have to have to be a proactive person to enjoy the game. You need to set goals for yourself. Outside of a few overarching story lines, the content is pretty much up to you as a gamer. I have had some great times playing, many times I was just doing something risky and ended up in the right place at the right time. This is a game where making friends is also a must. Just like the MMOs of old, you will need friends to venture out of the safe areas of "High Sec." (High Security) You MIGHT get lucky, but most of the time, you will just get ganked by a rat (short for: pirate) who is "gate camping" (waiting at jump points frequently used by noobs to short cut a long journey). There are two acronyms in EVE you will run into: NBSI (Not Blue, Shoot It) - Blue color tags represent allies or friends. In other words shoot anyone you don't know. (for fun, name your first few ships: 0000FF. The HTML code for blue. Having a ganker laugh may be all the time you need to get away) HTFU (Harden The [guess o.O] Up) - You need a thick skin to play the game. It's not for the timid or solo player. If you are looking for an in the cockpit view, this is not the game. There are a few new ones coming out that will scratch that itch. This is has frequently, with good cause, been called Spreadsheet Wars. This is an external view with simple 300-1000 poly count ships. The skinning and tessellation have done WONDERS and it looks just like a recently released game, especially with the last update: Kronos. It's keeping up with the times and after 11 years they have to be doing something right.

The game is good. Very nice sci fi and space idea. Exploration, faction, combat, but i dont like you need to grind for the whole time . plus, its pay to win

Weird game which becomes weirder and weirder with each update. First and foremost: unless you can find a bunch of co-players - you're nothing. That's not how it was advertised... Activities which could, in theory, be solo'able are either not worth the effort (i. e. quite low income vs playtime and no fun) or hidden deep within 'back to 2000'ies' user interface. Second, unless you buy Omega subscription - you're nothing. That's not how it was advertised... In theory, your character can learn some skills to be quite decent. In fact, you'll be crushed by pilots whose ships, while being of same model with yours, have twice a durability and twice a firepower (at least!) just because of all OP things Omega allows to use. Even as a tackler you'll be just worse than average Omega-powered tackler. Aside of tackling, you have no use for anything without Omega anyway. Third, after all those years of megacorporations' domination, developers decided to cut the in-game cash flow for them... ...without increasing solo/small guild playable activities' attractivemess. Awesome. That's not how it was advertised... Fourth, 15$/month for just staring into display while my character is researching blueprints? Diggin ore? Trying to do one's best at market? 15$/month is too costy for playing an in-game character 'class' whose sole responsibility is to click few buttons every once a while. Result: a good digger/researcher is hard to find. Thus, outrageous, desperate multiaccounting, botting, etc. Which doesn't add any chance to play and actually enjoy the game for solo and/or non-Omega players. Fifth, despite seemingly strict moderation the game is full of 'git gud' jerks. Which is NOT novice-friendly. Asking for advice may result in anything except an advice. Long story short, if you didn't played it - don't even try unless you have 2-6 friends to mess around with - and spare 15$/friend to purchase Omega for each. And, there are way more fun games to mess with 2-6 friends around - for less cash.