Eve Online is a Sci-Fi MMORPG that focuses mainly on giving freedom to the player rather than laying a path and a goal in front of him. Eve Online is a game but it truly tests your patience, mainly because it's one of the most slow-paced MMORPGS out there.
On short, Eve Online is a Sci-Fi game that focuses on spaceship combat, exploring and economy. The Eve universe is huge, with thousands of solar systems and one single game-server on which every player logs in.
Don't expect a space-sim like the X series when thinking about Eve online because Eve has absolutely no FPS elements. In fact, the Eve gameplay can be easily classified as a point-and-click before anything else.

However, don't let yourself fooled by this statement. The fact that your spaceship is controlled in a point-and-click manner doesn't mean that the game is not packed with action, heart-beating moments and all that good stuff. In fact, Eve Online can be one of the harshest virtual environments out there. I have never felt so pumped up in any other game than when I first got some PvP action in Eve, and that's mainly because nothing is scripted and whatever goods you lose, they're lost forever. There are no arenas in Eve online, no settings that you can tweak in order to play it safe. If you've done the wrong move, you can lose in a few hours what you have earned in a month. But that's exactly what makes Eve great.

Don't think that the game is slow-paced due to the way you control your ship either. The reason why I said the game is slow-paced is mainly due to the character progression and the learning curve. In Eve online you cannot grind your character up to success because there are no levels and no experience points gained by killing enemies. You simply choose which skills you want to make better, and simply wait. Some of these skills -the most advanced ones- take months to train and there's absolutely nothing to do about it. All you can do is buy expensive implants in order to lower the training time by a few days, but that's pretty much it. Bottom line, Eve online is a very unique game that tries to simulate a harsh Sci-Fi environment. Not many players like that, but some do and have kept playing Eve for years. If the idea of a huge space-themed game is right up your alley, create a trial and give Eve a try.

I give it a strong 9/10