The best thing about EVE, though, is the number of stories you’ll come away with as a result of playing it. As well as the game’s world itself being utterly daunting, the interface is a bit of a nightmare too, so any improvement to the way it’s taught to new players is definitely a welcome one. On top of that, the tutorial mode has been completely revamped so that you’ll spend less time wondering what the hell you’re doing. Character creation has been streamlined, so that the risk of being dropped into EVE‘s frankly terrifying universe with a completely useless character has been lowered considerably.
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You could argue that it’s a shame that people are going to play the game like a standard MMO and ignore the more interesting stuff, but it’s probably safe to assume that the kind of gamer who is specifically looking for the instant gratification offered by the NPC missions would, prior to Apocrypha‘s release, probably have given up on the game once their 14-day trial had expired.Īlso in the Apocrypha add-on (which is free, incidentally – the boxed version you’ve probably seen in shops by now just gives you a bunch of free play-time and saves you an 8GB download, which is fair enough) is a whole load of changes to the way you start the game. And it takes nothing away from those who appreciate the bigger picture in EVE, and are happy to get involved with the political side of things. While playing the game in this way sort of avoids the point of EVE’s player-controlled universe, it’s a really nice addition for people who simply don’t have the time to really get involved, or start the game by spending countless hours mining. So it’s just as well that the new Apocrypha expansion adds an absolute tonne of missions that you can just grab off non-player characters, and play on your own or with a couple of friends. Personally, I hate having to talk to people I don’t know when I’m playing games online.
And when people go to war in EVE, it’s usually for genuine, human reasons – not just because they were arbitrarily stuck on a certain side of the fence and told that the guys on the other side were all a bunch of complete jerks. See, where most MMOs put you in one of two factions and say ‘okay you guys, start fighting’, EVE lets you do pretty much whatever you want, and so while most corporations are happy to work with one another, some are actively engaged in open warfare. Thus the community became self-policing, whilst simultaneously leading to disputes over territory or resources. But in actual fact, players soon found strength in numbers, and gathered together under a number of banners, forming huge corporations and laying claim to their own chunks of the galaxy. You’d assume this would lead to people just treating the low-security areas as a massive deathmatch arena where everyone just turns up to blast the crap out of other players.
Areas of ‘high-security’ space are governed by AI-controlled police who will shoot down anyone who steps out of line, but outside of these areas, you can technically do whatever you like. But the vast majority of the game is controlled entirely by the players, not the developers. The clever thing about EVE Online is that, on paper, it’s pretty simple – you’re the captain of a ship which you can fully customise with all kinds of gear, then fly around shooting stuff, trading, chatting with people, and so on. It’s for people who want to genuinely get involved in a vast, cohesive online world that’s completely unlike our own, yet familiar enough to seem totally believable.
But EVE Online isn’t like your average MMO, and it’s not aimed at people who just want to fly around shooting bad guys in space. Y’know, like World of Warcraft, that game that literally everybody in the entire world loves. It’s just that the game’s often snail-like pace, and the amount of reading it requires to fully understand what’s going on, require a certain frame of mind to really appreciate it.īut why is this? It’s just an online RPG. This isn’t some kind of challenge, or an implication that some people are too stupid to ‘get’ it.
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Calling it a ‘review’ seems a bit disingenuous, as a full breakdown of EVE Online, and all its pros and cons would take literally years to write up. See, EVE is one of the most incredible games ever built. I had a hard time deciding if I should actually put a score on this review or not.
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