Massively got word that
EVE Online lead game designer Noah Ward, aka
CCP Hammerhead, would be in New York City last week. We jumped at the chance to find out more about the
Apocrypha expansion, and Ward was kind enough to give us our own hands-on demo while answering our questions about where
EVE Online is heading. We were pleasantly surprised to find that
EVE's lead writer Tony Gonzales was on hand as well. Fans of the game's backstory will know him for writing
The Empyrean Age novel, which chronicled the events leading up to
New Eden's factional warfare.
Apocrypha will be the most significant expansion in
EVE's history to date, introducing new -- and some controversial -- features while revamping existing aspects of the game. Ultimately the aim of
CCP Games with
Apocrypha is to make
EVE accessible to more gamers while adding depth for the existing playerbase. The
Apocrypha expansion launch will coincide with
EVE Online's retail release on March 10th. Leading up to that date, a number of the CCP developers have dropped info about what's on the way through dev blogs and the occasional interview, but the expansion seen as a whole is mind-blowing. What we have for you here is the most complete look at the
Apocrypha expansion offered to date, in one place, and much of it from the developers themselves. We've tackled
Apocrypha in four parts: the New Player Experience,
Epic Mission Arcs & Tech III,
True Exploration, and the
Sleepers.
Strap yourself in and get ready for Massively's exclusive hands-on with the
Apocrypha expansion for
EVE Online.
Oct 28th 2009 at 3:00PM
