“You can also look forward to finding stylish costumes throughout the game to change Eve’s look.”
Eve also has a Burst Gauge which accumulates with successive parries and combos, which can be used to activate buffs and powerful attacks like a leaping stab.”Īnd a line that speaks to me, as someone who isn’t super into Eve’s default outfit:
You can then use BG to gain skills like piercing super armor, execute sweeping attacks, interrupt enemy combos, and more.
Acquire Beta Gauge (BG) by parrying and evading in combat. “As the game progresses, Eve acquires skills and items, growing stronger and stronger. “The player becomes Eve, the survivor of the paratrooper squad deployed from the Colony, who must fight through powerful enemies with new comrades.”Ī note on the combat and abilities from developer Shift Up Corp.: The premise is that humans have been “expelled from Earth” by an invading alien force called the “NA:tives,” as director Kim Hyung Tae puts it. "From a financial-stability standpoint, Eve's ahead of 85% of people in the urban-music business," her accountant, Horace Madison, told Rolling Stone.Otherwise known as that weird action game from the PlayStation Showcaseĭuring today’s PlayStation Showcase stream, my mind went all over the place while watching new footage for Project Eve, a previously announced but newly-confirmed-for-PS5 action game in a “ruined Earth.” The story seems like it could be all over the place, but the slicing-and-dicing foundation seems fun enough - especially that backflip dodge.ĭepending on who you ask, this was one of the best (or potentially worse) games shown. At 22 she had a house in New Jersey, a retirement plan and a portfolio of investments. A shrewd businesswoman, Eve invested her money wisely. That same year she released her third album, Eve-Olution, which went gold her single "Gangsta Lovin,'" a collaboration with Alicia Keys, reached No. Dre-produced duet with Gwen Stefani, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind," won a Grammy in 2002 for best rap/sung collaboration. Its lead single, "Who's That Girl," established her as an international star the second single, the Dr. "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" Grammy Winner and 'Barbershop' ActressĮve's second album, Scorpion, dropped in March 2001 and went on to sell 1.5 million copies. Eve became only the third female hip-hop artist to have an album debut at No. 1 on its first week of release in September the same year. Ruff Ryders' faith in Eve was rewarded when her single, "What Ya Want," featuring Nokio the N-Tity of Dru Hill, became a Billboard Top 40 hit in 1999. (1975–) "What Ya Want" Single Tops the Charts "I have always appreciated that they never looked at me like 'Oh, she's the girl of the group,'" Eve told the celebrity news site. "They really put me through it as far as being able to write my own music, just like all the other dudes." In a male-dominated and frequently misogynistic hip-hop industry, Ruff Ryders showed no inclination to treat its first female signing any differently to its other acts, including DMX, Jadakiss and Swizz Beats. "It was like a boot camp," she explained to Vibe magazine. It was her first tangible success.ĭre's parent label, Interscope, introduced Eve to the Ruff Ryders label and they signed her up - and worked her hard to prepare her for the big time. But she was dropped after a few months - "Dre did not know what to do with me," Eve told Newsweek in 2001 - though a song she recorded for the label ended up on the soundtrack to the film Bulworth in 1998. Dre, who signed her to Aftermath Entertainment under the recording name Eve of Destruction.
Unhappy with her circumstances, she decided to get serious about a music career and received a break at 18 years old when friends arranged an audition for her with the producer Dr. After high school, Eve moved to New York but ended up working as a stripper (a part of her life she does not discuss now).