This is the only game for me that has managed to capture my imagination, and make me want to continue playing, and exploring it's world/universe, in the history of all games.

I cannot say the same for many other MMORPG's that i have tried and all have fallen after only a few short months.

I began playing Eve Online 2 days after release, and i have never looked back. Extra content is delivered every few months, and large expansions delivered frequently enough to not be overwhelmed. Oh and all the expansions are free.

It is totally free form, you can do whatever you want to do, with no exceptions.

The only thing i can say against it, is that it does not really matter what starting race/character you create, as all races can fly each others ships and use each others modules, by training the appropriate skills.

For example if you created a character with attributes more suited to learning Science and Technology skills, you can still learn combat and PvP skills, it will just be at a slower pace than a character created with attributes more suited to combat. But then you have the option of plugging in implants that boost your attributes anyway.

It's not perfect, but then the 8.3 review rating it got, reflects that.

No, I don't think Eve Online deserves the hype it has recieved.

Like many other MMOG's, Eve lacks the content and interactivity that only a few have been able to touch apon. What they did get right was the lack of holding the players hand and saying " This is what you have to do, nothing else." You have freedom to do what you will (with in the games bounds of course) which is a huge plus in my book. The open skill system is great and is done well in allowing the player to focus on other things, not the skill grind.

Over time it starts to feel bland and boring, mining is only so fun to watch, and bouncing from one system to another can be very time consuming. In my experience, I spent just as much time waiting as I did playing. I could walk away and make dinner, come back 40 minutes later and still have jumps to make into the next systems.

Anyways, I'm not going to turn this into an anti-eve rant, cause I do like the game, just not to the extent of giving it a bloated hype.

It's fun at first, but quickly became the most boring MMOG I've ever played.....by a long shot.

EVE does have it's issues, and the way the game is designed, it is not geared toward solo players. However, once you get in a corporation (like a guild), and start doing cooperative play, the game is a BLAST!

EVE isn't perfect, but I think the score earned in the review was appropriate and well deserved.

The best game I've ever played!

No more no less...

The best MMOG I have ever played, long play time is a key for mmorpg.
And NO ORKS

EvE has an incredible complexity to it and really a unique approach to many things within the game.

That being said, it suffers from several problems which I feel rate it less than an 8 out of 10.

• Skills. It's fantastic to have so many but it's a bit over the top. "Shield Upgrades", "Shield Operation", "Shield Management", "Tactical Shield .....". That's too many skills to do essentially the same thing. Each skill requires an extreme amount of time to get to a reasonable level. Rather than require such a large time sink for each skill just to make your ship work, lower the time requirements for the higher skill levels and instead introduce a maximum amount of skills per character. A new character should be able to catch up to one of the original characters within 8 - 12 months time but as it stands that's simply not possible.
• Security status. It's far too restrictive. Personally I think 0.3 - 0.0 space should be considered free-for-all territory, no penalties whatsoever for combat. Chalk it up to "natural phenomena" or something, signals simply do not make it to Concord. This would encourage more combat and group formations for mining etc.
• Communications jammer. There'd need to be restrictions, but this would block Concord communications within 30km or so for maybe five minutes. Lets you go free-for-all without security penalties in 0.4 - 0.6 zones. Obviously there'd be large restrictions. like one use every 30 minutes or so.
• Travel time. Waaaaaaay too friggin long. Introduce wormholes or something else to let you hop between major planets (like the prime planet of each race). Nothing should be more than 20 jumps away if you've clicked the "shortest route regardless of security" option. The game should be fun enough and quick enough that you don't get up from the keyboard unless you want to.
• Combat. It's not quite interactive enough with the guns. I'd love to be able to aim some time or to take manual control of my ship (more than click-click).

That's it from the top of my head.

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Originally posted by DamonVile
It's fun at first, but quickly became the most boring MMOG I've ever played.....by a long shot.

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Exactly what I thought. Gave it 18 months of my life & boy do I wish I could ask for them back!

one of the only MMORPG's tjat jas kept me for over 3months. I have been playing this for over 1 year now, and will continue to do so for a very long time.

I have had the opportunity to play MANY of the MMORPGs that are out there. I found most boring because it was the same basic design using the same basic theme. City of Heroes was a refreshing twist but the game grew stale and felt limited after about 6 months. Eve on the other hand seems to get better as it goes.

Others talk about the game getting boring, the game just opens more after about every 3 months.  Eve deserves to be considered in the ranks of Total Annihilation, Civilization and Doom for change the way we look at gaming.

It has a small market, amazing game but only appeals to a few.

Most like fantasy and with an actual character to control rather than a ship and a avatar

I've been playing eve now, on and off, since it went gold.... It's the only MMORPG that I keep going back to. Yes it has it's down sides.... for example: The utter reliance on Corps and Allainces to get anything of the rarer minerals, I'm willing to take risks in 0.0 but not at the cost of joining an Alliance.

Mining is boring but nessaccary and combat has improves 100 fold since release. The lag in large fleet combat or in the heavily populated areas is actually less than it was but it's a major pain.

Content is growing all the time and it's this and the overall community that keeps bringing me back from other MMORPGs.

I actually payed to play EVE once but never got hooked.

The initial tutorial is simply too long boring and a bit complex.

The Music is great, the graphics are good, the UI is too complex (I know it has to be this way, but for a new player its simply too complicated)

It deserves a good rating anyways.