EVE Online Special Edition previews

I played this game months ago, it impressed me then and still does now, in my opinion it is the very best MMORPG ever developed. It is truelly stunning on a massive scale with absolutely beautiful scenery and great gameplay. It can be complex, however, there are forums dedicated to helping newbies and it doesn't take too long to get to grips with… it took me a while to realise that you didn't have to leave the computer going to complete training! lol The only dissaponting thing I can say about it is that you need a huge amount of time to become powerfull. Oh and it can get expensive.. i.e. time codes are purchased for realtime so if you buy a time code (and start using it) and you don't play it for a month then that's half of your timecode wasted! You can buy timecodes (60 realtime days worth) in $89.99 (NZ) from Elemental Gaming. Either download the client for free or purchase the game (with 60 day timecode included) from Mighty Ape (Which would probably be the better option).

I would recommend this game to anyone whom has ever enjoyed a space sim in the past and likes the idea of minning, trading, shooting, space travel and getting completely emersed in a game for days or weeks on end.

Purchase and enjoy!

Don't know what the previous reviewer was thinking but this game has nothing to do with the game Homeworld, its not even by the same company, yes its in space, but thats it, as for the game, I played it for a short time, the controls are not like WoW (WASD), its like Diablo (Mouse), although plays nothing like Diablo, just comparing the movement method, I didn't give it long enough to sink in so can't say its good/bad seemed interesting enough, I'll give it a try when it comes out, heard lots of good things, but before buying do take note of its history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVE_Online#…

I used to play this game years back. The year it came out actually. I played it non-stop for months until, patch after patch, they slowly killed PvP.

I did try it again around 18months ago but I wasn't impressed. Unless the game has changed drastically, don't believe what you read. You DO need skill points to be effective at fighting – unless you just want to be a insignificant wingman – and PvP isn't so readily available. Most of the popular sectors of the universe are “care bear” where no PvP is allowed unless there is a deceleration of war between your corporation and another.

If you wish to fight without getting banned from the “care bear” space you must fight WAY WAY out in the far reaches of the universe which can take a very long time to get to.

But like I said, I haven't tried it in a while. I think they have a 30day free trial, so try it out and see.

This game is a sequel to Homeworld but focuses more on corporations and pvp combat this game is worth it if you have time I have been playing on and off for a year and I still enjoy this game. You can fly any ship with appropriate training as long as you have time and don't mind waiting up to 30days or more for training this game is well worth it. After one year of playing I am not even halfway through the training and still training to make myself better I have decided myself to be more of a harvesting and manufacturing person. You can choose whatever you wanna do even after choosing your class you can be a pirate and only being able to fly through low sector areas meaning your a target to anyone against pirates you can be a bounty hunter chasing other players down for the bounty you can follow the quests and build up to better weaponry and money from there. The choice is totally your and there is no way your day will ever be the same with over 200,000 sectors for you to fly through or mine in or build in. If your corporation has the man power take over a sector and hold it earn taxes from people building HQ's in your space station or rent from offices.

Ambush freighters force them to had over money or destroy there ship and take there freight. win contracts to run security for the freighters. Build spaceships and sell them over auctions to other players or sell them direct to the players. include a freighting price and take the ship to them the choice is yours. Choose your destiny.

I was an Eve subscriber for around 1/2 a year. Initially I was enthralled by the visuals, the opportunity to interact with other players, and discovering the Eve Universe. This began to pale once I found out that there are a lot of players who pray on newbies. You have to cross a “low sec” system to get to a mission goal, and there might be some clown lurking in a super powered battleship who things it's a laugh to shoot newbies' hard worked for ship out of space – back to grinding 3 weeks mining ore to replace it so somebody can have a 10 second giggle. This is utterly and totally acceptet and acceptable by the hardcore Eve community – don't expect anyone to help, don't expect your corporation elders to support you or exact revenge. So much for the player base. To do well in the game you have to ‘train skills’ which is a realtime ongoing process. The consequence of that is clear: you will never catch up to people who started playing the game 6 months, or 3 years before you. And there are no level restricitions or anything of the kind that protect anyone from those elite players. It also means that to be remotely powerful, you'll have to subscribe 2–3 years at least. Lastly, all Eve happens on the same server. What this means is, you can run into terrible lag problems if local space is very crowded. I flew into an instanced mission once with hundreds of computer controlled opponents and lost weeks' work because the game became so unresponsive that I did not have enough control over my ship to turn aorund and leave before my ship was destroyed. In the end I gave up on this as a bad job. However, if you adore pvp, or weeks of grinding to purchase something that you'll likely lose in seconds … this may be for you.