Station Access Collection (Matrix Online, Everquest Evolution,Star Wars Galaxies Starter Kit, Everquest II, PlanetSide Aftershock)

by Sony

Product Features

• Planetside - Aftershock throws you into futuristic all-out-war on the planetary continents of Auraxis. Engage your enemies in large-scale battles or tactical base assaults. Heavily-armored mechanized robots with multiple weapon systems are at your command.
• Star Wars Galaxies lets you become the hero of your own Star Wars adventure. Begin your adventure by helping Han Solo and Chewbacca fend off Jabba The Hutt on the Millennium Falcon -- then choose your path and find a place in the Galaxy. Become a rebel and fight the Empire, or join up with the Dark Side - while seeking your fortune as a Bounty Hunter, Smuggler or even a Jedi.
• EverQuest II takes you into an incredible fantasy world. With breathtaking 3D graphics and a wider world to explore, you'll unlock dungeons, battle monsters and engage in life as one of Norrath's great champions and leaders.
• In The Matrix Online you'll enter the war between man and machine. Join Neo, Morpheus and the crews of Zion as they take on the Agents, the Sentinels and other threats -- in all-new locations and with all-new weapons.
• Also includes Everquest Evolution

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000EDVRTQ
• Item Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: March 14, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,777 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

If you really want to jump online for a massive gaming experience, The Station Access Collection is your complete ticket. This collection gives you five award-winning, massively multiplayer online games, with 30 days free game time for each included for new accounts. The Station Access Collection includes Planetside: Aftershock, Star Wars: Galaxies, The Matrix Online, Everquest: Evolution and Everquest II. All excellent and engaging games by themselves, this collection represents all the online gaming you are going to need for a long time.

Planetside: Aftershock throws you into a futuristic all-out-war on the continents of Auraxis. View larger.

Planetside: Aftershock
Planetside: Aftershock is itself a compilation that includes PlanetSide, with the Core Combat expansion pack and the new BattleFrame Robotics action pack included. This game throws you into a futuristic all-out-war on the planetary continents of Auraxis, where you must engage your enemies in large-scale battles or tactical base assaults. Players must decide upon their allegiance and enlist in the army of their choice amongst three unique empires fighting for total domination. As battles are fought and experience gained, characters can choose to advance in more than 30 different combat specialties, including infantry, sniper, stealth commando, engineer, hacker, medic, pilot, driver and more. And with the new BattleFrame Robotics pack, players are put in control of giant mechanized robots, each with multiple weapons systems at their command.

Star Wars: Galaxies is a role-playing game based on the popular movie series. View larger.

Star Wars: Galaxies
Star Wars: Galaxies lets you create a character by choosing from male or female versions of eight different Star Wars races, including humans and wookiees, as well as the fish-faced mon calamari, the bug-eyed rodians, and more. The most important part of the character creation process is choosing your starting profession, whether is be as the artisan, brawler, entertainer, marksman, or scout. Then you must grow your character by gaining experience points, not simply by generically killing monsters or completing typical missions you'll find in other role-playing games, but rather by repeatedly using the specific skills that are most important to your character.

The basic starting professions actually branch off into more than 20 different advanced professions, which become available as you master the skill paths of your starting profession. It's easy to enter into combat in Star Wars: Galaxies, as characters need only venture a short distance from any of the various starting locations before they will run into myriads of creatures that can be killed for experience points. Star Wars: Galaxies' fighting characters have access to different special abilities that can cause more damage or hinder the abilities of their enemies in some way, and these characters will gain new abilities as they improve their skills. Thanks to its impressive visuals, authentic Star Wars music and sound effects, Star Wars: Galaxies will get you as close to living in the Star Wars universe as you'll ever be.

The Matrix Online is a turn-based combat game that puts you directly in the middle of Matrix itself. View larger.

The Matrix Online
The Matrix Online puts you directly in the middle of Matrix itself, a place also known as the Metro World, and the story line picks up after the conclusion of The Matrix Revolutions. It is a time of uneasy truce between humans and machines, with a third group called the exiles -- self-aware programs that have their home in the Matrix -- that further complicates matters. You play as a newly awakened "redpill," a human freed from servitude and made recently conscious of the nature of the Matrix and the state of the real world. Being human, you start out in the service of Zion, who'll help train you to survive and even thrive in The Matrix. But for you rabble rousers, you'll soon have the option of choosing to align yourself with any of the three organizations vying for domination of the Matrix. One of the more compelling features of The Matrix Online is how it doesn't force you to lock yourself into a particular character profession; instead the game allows you to customize your character's proficiencies and make dramatic changes to your skill set on the fly. Also, each character's set of statistics, such as perception and belief, predispose them toward one style of play or another.

Gameplay is primarily turn-based combat that occurs during randomly generated missions in search of targets or objects. You earn currency, experience points, and loot (such as weapons and other items) from accomplishing missions and defeating opponents. Many missions have multiple stages, and while it's possible to finish them on your own, it's much more efficient to plow through them with a group of other players. The Matrix Online allows players to form groups of up to a dozen, called "crews," that are more permanent in nature, and multiple crews can come together to form a "faction." In addition to fighting foes using hand-to-hand combat, guns, and viruses, characters can create useful items by "compiling" them. One of the most enticing aspects of The Matrix Online is the promise of an evolving storyline that develops based on each players' actions, ensuring that you will keep coming back not just for the thrill of the game, but in order to see how the story turns out.

Both Everquest games -- Evolution and Everquest II -- take place in the world of Norrath. View larger.

Everquest: Evolution and Everquest II
As the game that originally helped create the market for the massive multiplayer online role-playing genre, the Everquest line of role-playing games require little explanation. Both Everquest games -- Evolution and Everquest II -- take place in the world of Norrath, but in Everquest II Norrath has been stricken by a cataclysmic event that caused civilization to virtually collapse, leaving only two main metropolises intact. In both Evolution and Everquest II, you must choose your character's race, profession, and alignment before you head out in to the world to gain experience, win renown, and hopefully become rich and powerful beyond your wildest dreams. EverQuest: Evolution features the original game plus all of the expansion packs released so far, including The Ruins of Kunark, The Scars of Velious, The Shadows of Luclin, The Planes of Power, and The Legacy of Ykesha. Everquest II includes the new world order, a ton of original content, breathtaking new graphics, and several tweaks to gameplay, such as a purely player-versus-environment gameplay design that removes the original Everquest's option of attacking other players. As one of the most participated in and deeply developed massively-multiplayer online games ever created, both Everquest: Evolution and Everquest II will provide you with virtually endless entertainment and challenges.

Product Description

Contains Planetside Aftershock, Everquest II, Star Wars Galaxies Starter Kit, Everquest Evolution, Matrix Online. Contains 30 days access for each game.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good collection - had install problems, April 1, 2006

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Daniel Cameron (Honolulu, HI) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Station Access Collection (Matrix Online, Everquest Evolution,Star Wars Galaxies Starter Kit, Everquest II, PlanetSide Aftershock) (CD-ROM)

This is a good collection of games. Like the previous poster I had the same error when trying to install. Luckily I found a fix:

Open My Computer > C: > Program Files > Common Files.
Drag the folder InstallShield to your desktop.
Try installing the application again.

Once this was done, the programs installed fine.
As for the games, my favorite is Everquest 2 but all of them offer something interesting for MMO players. No one really has the time to play all of these games, but this a good inexpensive way to try them all out.

4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly Surprised, December 17, 2007

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James C. Polly (Kentucky, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Station Access Collection (Matrix Online, Everquest Evolution,Star Wars Galaxies Starter Kit, Everquest II, PlanetSide Aftershock) (CD-ROM)

I got this set as a gift for a friend (and got myself one too so that we could try the games together). I wasn't expecting much, but WOW I was surprised. We tried EverQuest Evolutions first, and that was sub par, but then we jumped into EverQuest2 and the cost was justified within the first 5 minutes. We have yet to try the other games, but even if they aren't worth playing we found a part that made it a great purchase. My only complaint is that in order to use your free 30 days for each game you have to actually subscribe to play more. While you -can- cancel the subscription before any charges occur it is a rather large inconvenience, and it always makes me nervous to have to enter a credit card to receive something for free.

5.0 out of 5 stars Try, Try Again, May 7, 2007

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C. Phipps (St. Joseph, MO) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Station Access Collection (Matrix Online, Everquest Evolution,Star Wars Galaxies Starter Kit, Everquest II, PlanetSide Aftershock) (CD-ROM)

I bought the Station Access Collection to try several games and use the Station Access Pass. It was quite a deal in getting the basic setup for 5 established games for the price of one new game. I've tried several of the games on it so far, and play two on a regular basis. It gave me lots of choices to make, and to find the best game for me. I hope everyone has as much fun trying new games as I have had.