Air Rivals: EVE Online lite?

by Shawn Schuster on Apr 18th 2008 8:30PM

If you've ever wanted to play EVE Online, but you're not into the hardcore PvP aspect, the economic corporations, the mining, the extreme vastness of the universe or you simply don't have any money at all, Air Rivals might just be the game for you. It's almost like it could be considered EVE Online-lite. Very, very lite. Ok, no seriously, it's not really like EVE Online.

In Air Rivals, you pilot your ship (called a Gear in the game) into dogfighting battles with other players. You can also join a faction, and eventually build up enough faction points to call down the mothership to attack the opposing side. In a world of hack-and-slash free fantasy MMOs, this is a welcome change of scenery for the free-to-play market.

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Tags: air-rivals, casual, dogfighting, eve-online, faction, free-to-play, space

Reader Comments (3)

Very Asian looking MMO. But nah, EVE it is for me tonight!

I Believe this is Space Cowboy, A game that was free to play then had some issues with the publisher. It changed hands I think and then seems to be relaunched as this.

Used to be called SpaceCowboy Online, it was a gPotato game but as was said there were some issues. It changed hands to GameForge4D, they tried to call it Flysis but obviously had some copyright issues, now it's called AirRivals. It's not a whole lot different now than it was when it was SCO, but fro what I've read about future updates it'll be better. It could use more than 4 Gears though...and it'd be nice if there were more aesthetic customization options >.< Very fun and cool game though.