Eve Online (PC)
Bah. I made the mistake of paying attention to something someone at work was talking about. He mentioned Eve Online and I though ‘oh, an MMO that seems to have slipped below my radar’. So, I had a look. It has a fourteen day free trial. ‘Oh well,’ I thought again, ‘nothing ventured nothing gained.’
Except it’s a Bad Thing(tm). Because, essentially, it’s like Elite. But online. And multiplayer. And simply brimming over with Space Cadet Geekiness of the highest order.
You know the drill, skulking about in an asteroid belt on the outer rim, mining asteroids and keeping an eye out for stray pirates. Setting the auto pilot to take you back home via a route of eight jump points and wandering off to make a cup of tea, keeping one ear open for the proximity alarms going off. Haggling prices on the station with other players. Doing missions. Blowing stuff up. Drooling over dirty great cruisers that you just can’t afford.
It’s Elite all over again.
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