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EVE Online Series

Eve Online

Role-playing (RPG) Simulator Strategy Action Science fiction Sandbox Open world
78
User Score
96 ratings
79
Critic Score
3 reviews
Mostly Positive
7,752 reviews
May 6, 2003
Released 8393 days ago
Linux PC (Microsoft Windows) Mac

About

EVE Online is a free MMORPG sci-fi strategy game where you can embark on your own unique space adventure. EVE's open world MMORPG sandbox, renowned among online space games, lets you choose your own path and engage in combat, exploration, industry and much more.

Storyline

Set more than 21,000 years in the future, the background story of Eve Online explains that humanity, having used up most of Earth's resources through centuries of explosive population growth, began colonizing the rest of the Milky Way. As on Earth, this expansion also led to competition and fighting over available resources, but everything changed with the discovery of a natural wormhole leading to an unexplored galaxy subsequently dubbed "New Eden." Dozens of colonies were founded, and a structure, a gate of sorts (which bears the inscription "EVE" on the New Eden side), was built to stabilize the wormhole that linked the colonies of New Eden with the rest of human civilization. However, when the wormhole unexpectedly collapsed, it destroyed the gate as well as the connection between the colonies of New Eden and the Milky Way. Cut off from the rest of humanity and supplies from Earth, the colonies of New Eden were left starving and disconnected from one another; many died out entirely. Over the millennia the descendants of the surviving colonists managed to rebuild their own societies, but by this time the memories and knowledge of humanity's origins, of Earth and the Milky Way galaxy, as well as the history of the settling of New Eden, was lost; what little information that survived transmission over the generations was misunderstood, lost in translation, and/or consigned to mythology. Five major distinct societies rose to prominence from the surviving colonies, each growing into interstellar spaceflight-capable civilizations. The states based around these societies make up the five major factions in Eve Online: the Amarr Empire, the Caldari State, the Gallente Federation, the Minmatar Republic and the Jove Directorate.

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Release Dates by Platform

PC (Microsoft Windows) Worldwide
May 6, 2003
PC (Microsoft Windows) Worldwide
May 23, 2003
Linux Worldwide
Nov 6, 2007
Mac Worldwide
Nov 6, 2007

Game Info

Developer
CCP
Publisher
CCP, THQ, Simon & Schuster, Atari Europe, Crucial Entertainment
Engine
CARBON Engine
Game Modes
Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Perspective
First person, Third person, Bird view / Isometric
Genres
Role-playing (RPG) Simulator Strategy
Themes
Action Science fiction Sandbox Open world

Languages

Audio / Voice
English, German, Russian, Korean, Japanese, French, Spanish (Spain), Chinese (Simplified)
Text / Subtitles
English, Russian, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Spain), Chinese (Simplified), English, French, Japanese, Korean, German, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Finnish

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