Eve Online Review

Few games are profound enough to be considered high art by critics. Eve Online is one of them. In 2013, the Museum of Modern Art inducted Eve Online into its permanent game collection. Only 22 other history-making games such as Pong and Street Fighter II share the honor.

The reason it’s featured in such a high-profile setting is not hard to account for. Eve Online is arguably the best and most beautiful game of its kind. It’s a massive online multiplayer open-world role-playing game, in which players build spaceships and explore the game’s expansive universe.

It is an obsessive-compulsive gamer’s space-age daydream, featuring some of the most complex menu systems of any MMORPG to date. If micromanaging customizations and sci-fi are a few of your favorite things, you’ll love the vast setting of Eve Online.

Story

One of the reasons Eve Online is one of the most successful MMORPGs of all time is its backstory. It has a backstory chockfull of mystery, shaped by the history of what other players have done in the past. Given that a major component of the game is exploration, peeling back the various layers of information that circulate throughout the game’s fictional universe is a fascinating aspect to the gameplay.

Without spoiling much, the basic plot of the story goes like this. In the distant future, humans create a way to colonize a cluster of thousands of stars light-years away from Earth. Suddenly, a cataclysmic event destroys the EVE warp gate, their means of interstellar travel, leaving the colonizers to fend for themselves. Enter the player.