Eve Online Review

Eve Online

First Impressions

There are no levels in Eve Online, only skill books. You can learn 1 skill at a time and each skill book has 5 levels. You can queue up to 24 hours of skills to be learned.  You will learn these skills in the order that they are queued.  You will continue to learn these skills even when you  aren’t logged in. The first few levels of a particular skill, like Jury Rigging, usually takes somewhere between a few minutes and a few hours to learn.  When you get to level 5, it can take up to a month to get through it. The more skills you have the better ships you can fly and the better you can equip your ship.  It may sound a little confusing.  The good people at CCP have revamped the in game tutorial and you will have very little difficulty learning the basics of the game.  You will  pick up on the more complex parts of this game over time.

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Vindictus Review

Vindictus

First Impressions

Once you elect to create a new player, you are allowed to select your player’s class.    The four player classes are gender locked, which is a little frustrating.  Two classes are female and two classes are male.  You are then taken through a skippable tutorial mission to kill a giant spider.  After that you are given an opportunity to begin the creation of your character.  I would prefer that I be able to create my character prior to completing any tutorial.  

Try not to think about the fact that there is only one city.  The fact  that you can only leave the city by entering dungeon instances from the city docks is a unique approach to the genre.  An MMORPG with no explorable  map.   Just one city and dungeon instances.  questing is done through solo dungeons.  You can group up with other players to accomplish more difficult dungeons.  I think that this is a very original approach to the MMOs.  It is an MMORPG/Arcade game hybrid.

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