CCP Games announces the release of Citadel, the new expansion for EVE Online
they say "Builds Dreams and Wrecks Them" in their space-based MMORPG. They accompany the news with a recent
cinematic trailer as
well as a feature tour
video with a look at what this adds. Here's word:
Today the Citadel
expansion has come to EVE Online, ushering in the biggest changes ever to player
control over space. The inventive pilots of gaming's most intriguing sci-fi
sandbox game can now build staggeringly massive structures and then tear them
down with imposing fleets of enormous starships. The delicate balances of power
will break and new ones arise, unleashing havoc and spawning future conflicts
across the universe.
Outposts and Stations were once the tools EVE players used to bring the universe
under their control. Now, in a game with near-infinite possibilities, groups of
any size can set their sights on grander ambitions.
Citadels are gargantuan player-created cities in space, dwarfing almost
everything the Empires have ever constructed. These monuments to the might and
power of capsuleers make excellent player-run trade hubs and defensive
platforms, the largest of which is massive enough to offer super-capital ship
docking bays.
With the ability to place them almost anywhere in the universe, it is truly a
new dawn of player control over the space they choose to inhabit or invade, and
their customizable nature makes it even easier to shore up defenses, manage
important player diplomacy through access and docking rights, and exercise asset
safety for even the largest alliances of tens-of-thousands of players should
they be destroyed in cataclysmic, awe-inspiring explosions.
What does this brave new world look like? The Citadel trailer paints a dramatic
picture of the cycle of life and death and in a new New Eden, and even includes
a song by CCP's in-house band Permaband.