From Ambrosia Software, purveyors of some of the finest shareware known to human kind, comes Escape Velocity: Nova. This title puts you in the role of a starship captain at the helm of your very first shuttlecraft. Where do you go from here? Space piracy? Commercial freight running? Military service? Asteroid miner? The choices are yours to make, and each choice you can make is fleshed out in remarkable texture and detail.
Escape Velocity: Nova comes packed standard with a very open universe, which allows for the maximum freedom within the engine, but has less in the way of story than many players might want. But hey, that's OK. One of the best things about the Escape Velocity series is it's modding community. Mds are available which entirely overhaul the game, placing you both in familiar universes, such as the Star Wars, Star Trek, and Foundation settings, as well as in entirely original settings. On some of these overhauls, the writing is above and beyond what I've seen for player-written mods for any other game. There are even two (of which I am aware) that have professional writing talent behind them.
The game interface is pretty simple. view is top-down (in space... yeah, I know.) and everything is keyboard-controlled. The controls may take a while to get used to, seeing as how there are about thirty different keystrokes which control everything from requesting landing clearance, to selecting secondary weapons, to hailing ships to beg for mercy or fuel.
Ambrosia Software is cool enough to give you almost the entire game for free, and to allow you to continue playing forever, even without paying your shareware fee*. But payment means they'll make more awesome games. And I want that, and you want that. so for chrissakes,pay yer shareware fee!
Want to know more, download EV:N, or take a look at it's thousands of mods?
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