Another project of making a giant mobile game of NetEase is about to be released, this time it is EVE Echoes - the mobile version of EVE Online.
As a long-time gamer, you will know about the classic EVE Online game . This is an MMORPG based on the highly successful cosmic war theme of CCP Games. This game has existed for 17 years and until now it still has a very strong community with many space wars and space exploration carried out continuously. It can be said that the fact that NetEase jumped into cooperation with CCP to launch its brother on its mobile platform, EVE Echoes, is a big surprise.
According to the published information, the cooperation project between NetEase and CCP has been implemented for 3 years. Until February, NetEase confirmed that the covid-19 epidemic had affected the development of the game, putting it at risk of delaying its launch until the end of 2020. Here, NetEase has released a statement that the game will be officially released in August. However, the company also left the day of 'banging out' correctly, they only said it was in August.
Attached to the announcement are two video clips showing the gameplay and the story of EVE Echoes. For loyal fans of EVE Online, it is nothing new, but if you are a beginner, you will be overwhelmed with the grandeur and 'cosmic war' in 2 paragraphs. this trailer.
EVE Echoes is an iOS and Android version developed by NetEase based on CCP's franchise agreement. The game will be modeled after EVE Online and include many unique features that made the legend of EVE Online before. Players will immerse themselves in the fantasy world of the vast universe with many options to survive and make a living in this world.
The point that makes EVE Online so attractive is its extremely open world. If in other games you just join the clan, gather to fight in events, EVE Online introduces more attractive systems. You will be given a spaceship and wandering around the vast space, can land on a planet or a space station to rest, maintain the ship, find a job or buy selling goods. The economic system in the game is open and decided by the player, in which the player can live as a trader, buy and sell goods across the planets to make a profit and the exchange rate of everything varies according to the situation. purchase and sale of all gamers in EVE Online.
The discovery system in the game also feels extremely attractive, especially for those who like to 'move'. The game has up to 5000 star systems and more than 2500 jump jumps that link these systems together. If you are an adventurous person you can travel indefinitely in the game. Especially, EVE Online has a mining function, which means that not all star systems are inhabited, sometimes they are unspecified wilderness and gamers have their own tools to set up a money station. and then explored the star region that I just found.
Most of those exciting features of EVE Online are promised by NetEase to bring to EVE Echoes on mobile this August. In the release, they also confirmed that some functions will be available. As follows:
- New faction - Yan-Jung: This is an ancient civilization in the world of EVE added to EVE Echoes to diversify factions and increase the excitement for fans of the EVE series. You can see the side of this side in the story trailer, which is the Asian girl at the end of the trailer.
- Corporations: This is the familiar guild system in EVE Online, it was included in the previous Open Beta Test and where players gathered together to explore the universe in a collective model.
- Capsuleer Outpost: This function is a great support for astronauts. Different from the existing architectures, Capsuleer Outpost is a more personal architecture. It provides explorers with a private shelter as they explore remote cosmic regions that have no human footprint yet.
- Skin for ships: Like EVE Online, EVE Echoes also provide 'fashion' for spacecraft to help users personalize their beloved ship and make them more vivid. Temporarily, classic ships of EVE Online skin will be carried over and in the future, NetEase will develop more new skins.
- Instructional function: It's not easy to bring a space combat game to mobile, especially to play it on the control system of the phone. Therefore, NetEase will introduce a new guide system to help players easily get acquainted and learn the vast world of EVE Echoes.
It can be said that in recent years NetEase has continuously gained achievements in making mobile games. From millions of people love products like Yin Yang Su, Identity V to quality products in many categories such as Life After, Rules of Survival, Knives Out. Will EVE Echoes be another success and bring NetEase into the world of space warfare in August? Wait and watch it!