- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try $30.00 to buy
- Operating system: Mac OS Classic
- Date added: June 24, 2003
- Total Downloads: 86,645
- Downloads last week: 9
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- Average user rating: stars out of 13 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Perhaps one of the best 2D shareware games to date on the Mac, Escape Velocity: Nova offers a huge universe to explore as well as plenty of missions to keep you busy. With an open-ended plotline, you determine how your game will progress. You can beef up your ship and hire fighter escorts if you fancy yourself the pirate type, or you can begin a career in trading with your fleet peacefully roaming the galaxy, looking for great buys and running trade routes for credits.The game doesn't end there, however. You can join the Federation, and there are a plethora of spaceships to suit your fancy (once you've earned the money) and plenty of upgrades to customize your ultimate space cruiser. It's all up to you.
Escape Velocity's graphics may not be as flashy as some of the newer titles out there, but with a giant universe to explore, many plotlines, individual missions, upgradeable spacecraft, and much more, most gamers will find themselves registering for this title within days of downloading.
Publisher's description
From Ambrosia Software :With an open-ended plotline, you call the shots as to how your game will progress. You can beef up your ship and hire fighter escorts, or you can begin a career in trading with your fleet peacefully roaming the galaxy looking for great buys and running trade routes for credits. Several huge plotlines within the game take you to the edge of the universe or have you joining the Federation in its fight against the invading Aurorans. This update provides changes to the game engine and to specific scenarios in order to improve performance and reliability.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 13 votes
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Version: Escape Velocity: Nova 1.0.6
"Very involved, good game. I find myself playing this game when i'm bored."
Pros: -Various activities you can do.
-Humongous universe
-Multiple governments
-Shareware didn't restrict too much gameplay controls, if any.
Cons: Can't think of any.
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Version: Escape Velocity: Nova 1.0.6
"Lots of busy work to progress to a playable level"
Pros: It occasionally becomes interesting to find something new to do. If there were more pleasant surprises, it would be worth more.
Cons: This is not a $30 game. The ability to save where you are is non-existent. I played for hours and hours before being able to progress to a level where I could compete with the computer. After the thirty day trial, I still didn't know many of the features because of the lack of a help section. Tons of time-consuming busy-work assignments before anything really engaging happens.
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Version: Escape Velocity: Nova 1.0.6
"Excellent, quality, expandible Mac game."
Summary: I have been playing EV: Nova on both Mac and Windows for a long time. No title I have play matches it in replayiblity, and mod development.
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Version: Escape Velocity: Nova 1.0.6
Summary: i have played this since the very first one.(before you prolly ever heard of!) when this came out i totally got it. registered it so u can finally use the pulgins and buy some ships(only drawback.)Problem is that in version.1.0.8 hector kills u :*(.... read more >>
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Version: Escape Velocity: Nova 1.0.6
Summary: This is my favorite game for on the road, because I can play with my trackpad, and it doesn't need as much processor power as most of today's games like UT 2k4. Good buy! If you don't have a superfast comp, but you like games with good gameplay inst... read more >>
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