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EVE Online: The Second Genesis

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8.7 User Score:

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Game Info

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Interactive

Developer: CCP

Genre(s): Massively-Muliplayer Online Role-Playing Game

Players: Thousands

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: May 6, 2003

Summary

The spectacular space combat, commerce, and exploration game, whose breathtaking graphics, special effects, and intricate gameplay provide an experience unlike any other. Played on the Internet, this massively multiplayer online persistent world game takes place in a universe teeming with life every hour of every day. Take on the role of a spaceship captain cruising around the universe, trading, fighting and communicating with other players and create a life beyond imagination.

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What The Critics Said

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Gaming Nexus

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.

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Game Chronicles

A massively complex economic and life simulation set in the expansive universe of unlimited possibilities.

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Next Level Gaming

A game of epic proportions.

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Warcry

The best praise I can give it is that it honestly and successfully appeals to the casual gamer. You don't have to kill 932,592,461 Lesser Bats to level since your skills train while you are logged off.

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PC Format

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

Game Revolution

You could play this game for years before you really started to feel like you might have seen everything it had to offer. If you can just get past the rough beginning, the difficulty, and the steep learning curve, Eve Online is the biggest game you could possibly hope to play.

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Edge Magazine

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]

Game Over Online

The quintessential difference between this title and its competitors ("Earth and Beyond" and "Freelancer" come to mind) is the detail. There is so much detail and so much planned to expand on those details that you could literally be enthused on tangents for months at a time.

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Yahoo! Games

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.

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Armchair Empire

An enjoyable game. It emphasizes teamwork and really gives a lot of character tweaking to sink one’s teeth into, but you really need to be patient individual to deal with the mining aspect of the game.

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IGN

This game is for anyone who wants to be able to truly affect the game world around them, and be a part of the force that shapes the story of EVE.

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Jolt Online Gaming UK

Despite its flaws though, EVE is deeply, deeply addictive.

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GameSpy

It is possible to have fun in this game. The bad news is that there are some underlying structural problems that make the game horribly unfriendly to new players and will probably keep the game from being as popular as it might be.

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Adrenaline Vault

You must have patience and be excited about non-structured gameplay in order for it to be worth the price of admission. Action hungry thrill-mongers will do themselves a favor by steering clear of this one.

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Game Informer

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

GameSpot

EVE offers little in the way of instant gratification, and progress in the game is slow and often unnoticeable.

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GamerFeed

Both space travel and mining - two of the biggest time-consumers of play - are so boring after the first time through that they are referred to a "time to make a sandwich".

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PC Gamer

A beautiful universe with a sophisticated interface, but it's essentially a desolate wilderness of constellations, space debris, and guesses. [Sept 2003, p.92]

GMR Magazine

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

Computer Games Magazine

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]

Computer Gaming World

This stunning mood is crushed by an interface that has all the charm and convenience of a TPS report. [Sept 2003, p.95]

G4 TV

While it's not the unplayable mess of the "World War II Online" debut, Eve is still firmly in the beta stage in all respects except monthly fees. [19 June 2003]

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 53 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Haru V. gave it a3:
Beautiful, atmospheric, and brimming with potential, but desperately unfriendly and chillingly bereft of character. Fans will talk about the lack of the usual MMORPG grind, but EVE compensates by making every task mind-numbingly slow (and, worse, mostly automatic). They will speak highly of its "open-ended structure", but this is just a euphemism for the game's complete lack of focus. One for those who enjoy reading books containing blueprint diagrams of the Starship Enterprise, methinks.

Erratic Communist gave it a10:
An epic, beatiful and truly living world beyond the gray routine of grindfests like World of Warcraft. Best MMORPG of all time.

Aaron F. gave it a10:
More of an open-ended world than a guided game. There are no set goals, thus no set limits. It's not for everyone, but for a certain style of gameplay, it's unmatched.

Blue Falcon gave it a0:
I would desribe this game as torture.

Michael B. gave it a10:
play EVE and I've been doing it for about 11 months now and I can tell you that it is a great experience if you're willing to take on a game that has immense gameplay. Note, many newcomers are often "intimidated" by the sheer size of EVE (with 5000+ solar systems and a motto that goes "It's your life, do what you want" I can understand it) but don't let that stop you. After I had finished my first two-week trial I had already earned about 12 million ISK (InterStellar Kredits or something like that, money for short), gotten a Tristan-class frigate, a Thorax-class cruiser and an Iteron-class transport vessel and I had already joined a corporation (compares to guilds and such in other MMORPGs). So as you can see, the trial is very rewarding if you just play 2-3 hours a day of it. EVE is well worth the money I'm paying for it.

Lourds L. gave it a9:
When I saw the trailer of this game. I became very curious of what is this game all about. The first time I played this game I was amazed first with the character creation, then the very long yet very imformative tutorial. Up to the mining and joing a corporation. This game really rocks!!! I just love how CCP made the game.

Eunice F. gave it a10:
Can’t step back! EVE doesn’t only have the coolest graphic and sound, it also delivers the ultimate online game play.

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