The game is a mouse and keyboard game. You don't have to go all in on the voip headset but most multiplayer games these days - where teamwork is required in order to succeed - will use them.

EVE isn't for everyone. Its not World Of Warcraft by a long shot. Its whats described as a "Sandbox" where the game developers create a world, and then leave it up to the players to determine what happens in it. Right now, over 40,000 people are playing simultaneously, on the same server. Some are in whats called "high security space" where the space police will catch and kill evil-doers. People like me, are in null-security space. Meaning, the only safety I have is the guns mounted on the hull of my ships, and my space stations.

There are approximately 10,000 solar systems in the game, 3/4ths of them are conquerable by the players. The more systems you control, the more resources you control, the more money you make, the more ships you can build, the more pewpew you can cause. The economy is real - meaning that its completely player driven with very little NPC seeding. Some toons never undock from the "Wall Street" station in the Jita system - they are effectively stock brokers who buy and sell. There are player run banks, politics (I just got through with helping to negotiate a non-aggression pact between my alliance and another).

Its a completely engulfing universe - but its also very unforgiving to solo players. The "PVE" (playing against the computer per sae) is not very strong, and Player Vs. Player combat heavily favors working as a team (not always numbers) So if you don't have buddies to play with and get to know, it can be quite off-putting which is why it'll always play second fiddle to WoW which any dweeb can play in a pointless, never-ending quest to acquire "stuff". EVE is so much more about the interactions with people and what happens when interacting with others.

(Don't f*ck with the Russians in EVE btw, they're aggressive and don't take well to being provoked)

Here's a video they put together about what they think the sandbox is all about:


Here's another one - which is based on a true story about how a single person brought down one of the biggest alliances in the whole game - Band of Brothers. It was such a story that it made "real life" newspapers. (They've since modified the mechanic by which the guy did this - which was allowed to stand because he never exploited anything. He just used the rights and roles that the alliance had given him to screw them over)