EVE Online MMORPG Video Game Review from West Coast Midnight Run

EVE Online is one of a small number of 3D MMORPG, an acronym for Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, where literally thousands of players logon worldwide and play off against each other simultaneously on mainframe servers operated by the publisher for a monthly subscription fee.

The 3D graphics, animation and computing systems are superior to most home gaming consoles. MMORPGs are vastly complicated and are normally endowed with a life of their own. The environment and events simply do not start over because a player logs off and comes back at a different time later.

EVE Online was kicked into operation in 2003 and has been expanding its repertoire with new storylines, characters and adventures added to the main thread. EVE is a single Universe game offering both strategy and action-oriented entertainment. The Human Race having expanded all over our own galaxy the Milky Way, discovers

a wormhole leading to another galaxy, New Eden. Soon colonists start populating Eden and eventually the wormhole crashes and contact is lost.

Thousands of years later, five major galactic empires emerge in Eden, all space-faring, while Earth and the Milky Way are lost in time.

Players select their race and are assigned a spaceship which is used for commerce, warfare and leisure. Planets operate in each empire and there are social, political, technological and religious layers in the game which is very similar to being in command of a starship in the Star Trek Universe. Some activities can be done on automatic while a player is logged off however combat can only be made in real time and involves using targeting systems and pre-computed variables before firing on another ship.

As of 2013 EVE Online has grown its customer base to nearly 500,000 subscribers worldwide.