http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/games/popular/month/space/core/social/?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss ]]> This Month's Most Popular Games Tagged 'space, core, social' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/games/popular/month/space/core/social/?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss ]]> en-us One of the most rich and complex multiplayer environments available, EVE Online offers players the opportunity to inhabit a single-sharded world with a wider range of gameplay choices than most MMORPGs. Monthly fee.

A number of community created videos can be downloaded from the Community Videos section. The "Great Northern War (Timeline)" is highly recommended.

]]> 09 Dec 2006 09:27:34 Star Wars Galaxies is a sci-fi MMORPG initially released as Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided. This MMOG's world consists of ten different planets, each one a 16 km x 16 km map and borrowed from the known fictional Star Wars universe with a timeline set between the Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back movies. Star Wars Galaxies features content both mentioned and not mentioned in various Star Wars media. During character creation, players may choose from ten different species and nine different primary professions, all of which are mentioned in various Star Wars media.

]]> 15 Dec 2006 09:02:55 Freelancer is a space-based combat simulator/Extremely open-ended Role playing game. Spanning several star systems, and easily 100 hours of gameplay, the game was a marvel of its time. It has an excellent plotline, set in the same universe as Starlancer, and it will keep you engaged for quite awhile.

You play as a freelancer, or mercenary, out to make his way in the universe, and you eventually become entangled in a plot of galactic importance.

The controls are awkward at first, being one of the few mouse based games rather than WASD for control, but it quickly becomes intuitive.

One of the first non-MMORPG games to sport an online mode that could handle up to (in one case) 100 players in a persistant universe, the game is almost considered to be an MMORPG. It really is the NWN of Space RPG's.

]]> 19 Dec 2006 04:36:49 Vendetta Online is a terrific game made for the computer. You are a ship among other mulitplayer ships in a huge galaxy and more galaxies. Create guilds, duel, and all the while chat. Though it's ever building, it's a game already with helpful players, and a strong community. Join one of three teams, and attack! Combat is common in this online game. Along with combat, trading and missions are also popular. Even mining is possible! After all, anything's possible in Vendetta Online.

]]> 01 Jan 2007 08:50:42 Shattered Galaxy, the world's first published massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game, combines the excitement of real-time strategy with the character development of role-playing in a persistent online world.
When you play Shattered Galaxy, you enter a community of thousands of gamers like yourself. Fight with hundreds in an ever-evolving universe!

Discover new friends, new strategies and new technologies!
Advance to greatness in the only massive online warfare
experience available.
From the official site.

Full game can be played for free, but to get everything out of the game a subscription is required.

]]> 20 Jan 2007 04:53:26 Dixerius allows users to use their own media - MP3 audio, DivX movies, and a variety of other formats - and blast through enemies in space to the beat, and/or the visuals. This innovative concept allows for virtually unlimited gameplay. Dixerius features the proprietary R-Cube Engine, which features advanced lighting and rendering techniques, a robust client-server architecture for multiplayer, and easily extendable content.

Dixerius also features a short story mode, with a first-person intro sequence. Both musical and story modes can be played multiplayer over the Internet or LAN via TCP/IP with up to 16 players. For musical mode, the media (including video) is also synchronized between all clients.

]]> 29 Jan 2007 10:10:08 Jump to Lightspeed is the expansion which adds space to the MMORPG, Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided. Choosing one of nine career paths in three pilot professions: Rebel, Neutral or Imperial, the player advances through a combination of experience points and quest-completion as a Star Wars starfighter pilot.

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