IS IT WORTH IT?! | A Review of EVE Online in About 3 Minutes!
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Space – The left ear, the right ear and the final front ear. This is a review of EVE Online, the legendary free to play sandbox that’s filled to the brim with player driven stories involving epic adventures in a world where theft and betrayal are a common occurrence and massive battles take place on a scale not seen in any other game where literally thousands of players fight over territory and resources to defend and expand their empires.
It’s been around since 2003 which makes it one of the longest running mmo’s of all time at over 18 years old and it’s still going strong today with thousands of players logging in each day and the goal of this review is to help you decide whether or not it’s worth playing and paying for in 2021.
EVE’s unique in that almost everything in the world is built and sold by the players, for the players, with an economy that’s almost entirely player owned and operated. All raw materials come from players collecting them, all ships are made from minerals refined from the ores that other people mine and every ship that gets destroyed has to be replaced by an actual player. You can do just fine playing it on your own but for the best experience and highest chance of survival you’ll want to join a player corporation.
Every time you lose a ship it’s lost for good, and if you’re not quick enough to get your capsule out of harms way, you’ll lose any implants in your clone too which can quickly become an expensive and frustrating ordeal, though your loss is someone else's gain, not just to the guy that killed you, but to the industrialist or trader that stands to make a profit when you decide to buy a replacement for everything you lost.
It’s a very slow paced game where the epic battles and big money heists are few and far between, and the day to day of the game is more akin to real life where you go to work and spend half of it sleeping and generally being unproductive, occasionally waking up to select the next target in your mission or activate your mining laser on the next asteroid.
Travelling long distances in big, slow ships is extremely tedious and getting ganked when you least expect it is like getting your teeth pulled, so it’s definitely not the right game if you’re looking for non-action and happy feel good vibes and it can often feel like it’s a lot more exciting to read the stories that come out of the game than actually being a part of it, but when something exciting does happen, it can easily turn in to a truly memorable experience.
Unlike most other space games you play using a mouse and keyboard rather than a gamepad or flight stick, double clicking in space to change direction and adjusting your speed using the speedometer at the bottom of the HUD. You fly in 3rd person view, rotating the camera around your ship to look around and using the overview, sensors and scanners on your HUD to navigate, and although there is technically a first person cockpit view it’s almost useless for anything other than simply travelling through safe space because of the restrictive camera angles and overall lack of visibility.
When you first get in-game you’ll be asked to create a character and there’s no shortage of options to choose from along with a pretty advanced customization engine that lets you alter almost all aspects of your characters appearance.
There’s 4 main factions in the game, the Gallente Federation, Caldari State, the Amarr Empire and Minmatar Republic, and each faction has their own extensive lore that branches out more and more the further you go down the rabbit hole, they also have their own unique lineup of ships and you’re free to fly them all regardless of your character’s faction, though you still have to train the required skills before being able to pilot it, and more still before you can fly it well..
There’s thousands of solar systems to visit too which you jump between using pre-built stargates that catapult you from one system to another. Each system has a sun at its centrer surrounded by planets, asteroid belts, stations and usually some off the grid stuff like cosmic signatures you can scan down using special equipment to find valuable combat sites, wormholes that lead to unique systems to explore, aswell as hacking sites filled with secured loot caches that you have to crack open by playing a little mini game to get past the firewall.
You can fit your ships however you like, with the traits of each ship providing bonuses to certain types of weapon or defense systems. There’s missiles, long range rail guns, bombs, short range blasters and quite a few more, with multiple versions of each type of weapon leading to hundreds of fitting options for each and every ship...
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