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Throughout the missions, I was followed, and then attacked, by Confederate Gunboats.

I was even offered missions to smuggle drugs and shuttle criminals into systems across the galaxy.

The price you pay is criminal status in all Confederate (or Rebel) systems.

You often have opportunities to attack Confederate ships and become allied with the Rebels - and vice-versa. You can chose to help a merchant vessel that's being attacked by pirates, or you can ignore its distress calls on your hailing frequency. And it always pays to check the mission computers and spaceport bars when you land on planets - you can always find work by accepting special missions.Īnother thing I liked about this game: you're forced to make moral decisions. You can maraud and pillage other ships as a pirate. You can choose to ally yourself with one of the two warring political factions of the galaxy: the Confederates or the Rebels. You can hire escorts for protection and for extra cargo capacity. You can choose to become a galactic trader, ferrying cargo and passengers from planet to planet. And the only time you're "finished" with the game is when you decide to start over from scratch or turn off your machine. There is no single objective, no single way to play the game. Many commercial games - Buried in Time or The Dark Eye - don't allow you the luxury of playing the game the way you want to play it they have very specific objectives you must achieve in order to "finish" the game. But it's completely up to you how to go about it. The galaxy is largely unexplored - I had my computer map handy most of the time - and it's your job to stake out and make your living however you can. EV drops you right in the middle of a rough-and-tumble galaxy as the captain of a shuttlecraft.

But all of these have been combined into a single game with superb gameplay. The premise of the game is nothing new: there have always been space-trading games, Asteroids-style shoot-'em-ups, and strategic and tactical simulations. There are few games that equal EV's design and game-playing longevity.