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November 6, 2007

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EVE Online now out for Mac

Posted Nov. 6, ’07, 10:30 AM PT by Cyrus Farivar
Category | Games

EVE OnlineExplorers of the galaxy rejoice!

As someone who doesn’t really play MMORPGs at all, this news doesn’t mean a whole lot to me, but from what I gather, EVE seems like the love child of World of Warcraft and Ambrosia’s Escape Velocity.

Macworld’s Peter Cohen can explain it much better than I:

EVE Online is superficially a space trading, exploration and combat game in which players pilot spacecraft and travel from solar system to solar system. But the single, persistent online universe that all players share and the player-run economy add some twists to EVE to make it a very deep and somewhat daunting experience for new players, even those with experience in other MMOGs.

And that’s not all, as Gamemeister Cohen has put together the n00b’s guide to EVE — ie, for people like me:

EVE Online at its simplest is a space trading, exploration, and combat game, although calling it so really only scratches the most superficial aspect of what EVE is all about. The game possesses a huge backstory that explains the different “races” in the game — five different factions of the human race that have colonized a galaxy far beyond the Milky Way and have long since fallen out of touch with their origin homeworld.

These races are the Amarr Empire, the Caldari State, the Gallente Federation, the Jovian Empire and the Minmatar Republic. Of those, only four are actually playable within the game (the Jovians, for now, remain an elusive and mysterious bunch that want nothing to do with other humans in their shared section of space).


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