![]() If any of you remember the now ancient game AutoDuel, then this concept will be familiar to you. From this inauspicious beginning, you must decide your destiny by becoming whatever kind of space-captain you can. (Wise players will immediately upgrade to the sturdier Heavy Shuttle.) You're given a handful of credits, a quick message telling you how to land on the nearby planet, and off you go. You start the game as a novice captain, fresh out of spacedock, orbiting a planet or spacestation in your trusty, but woefully inadequate, shuttlecraft. ![]() It is equal parts trading sim, action-adventure, strategy game, and even contains elements of an RPG. GameplayLike its predecessors, EV: Nova is difficult to peg into any of the traditional video game genres. When word hit the developer's log that the game had gone Gold Master, fans were posting away on the EVN message boards, demanding to know why they had to wait to download it.But all good things come to those who wait, and EVN was released a week later, setting off an avalanche of downloads, totaling 10,000 in the first two days from MacGameFiles alone.Now, what we all want to know is: was it worth it? Does Ambrosia's latest offering live up to the two-year hype? Has the Escape Velocity legacy been well-served, or is EV 3 just another Alien 3?Let's find out. Long time EV fans were lined up around the virtual block for a month in advance to download this game. On March 18, Ambrosia released the long-awaited third installment in the venerable EV line, Escape Velocity: Nova. Imagine their red-faced shame to discover later, their dirty little habit caught on my desk cam.Now, PC gamers may have yet another vice with which to contend. ![]() I've known more than one PC user whose secret vice was sneaking into my room while I was away, to dominate just one more planet or sneak in a few more cargo runs in preparation for buying that shiny new battlecruiser. These titles are so popular that they have been known to invoke serious cases of Mac-envy in otherwise staunch PC using gamers. To anyone reading this review, Ambrosia is the uber-shareware company that brought us the space trading, shoot 'em up hit Escape Velocity, and its equally ambitious follow-up, EV: Override. December 18, 2019SearchEscape Velocity: NovaGameplaySoundGraphicsValuePublisher: Genre: Adventure & RPGMin OS X: Any Version CPU: G3 RAM: 128 MB Graphics: 640x480 16-bitEscape Velocity: NovaMaPages:1Say the word Ambrosia to the average Mac gamer, and the first thing that comes to mind isn't what Greek deities feast upon. ![]()
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