This five day trial version of the game offers everything that the full retail version of the game offers, but is limited to five days worth of play-time. When the five days is up players can either stop playing or sign up at the EA Store ($21.95 for an online registration code) or they buy the full boxed product anywhere ($29.95) and use that code. From there players get 30 days free, after which they'll begin to pay the monthly subscription fee. Players of the Five Day Demo can bring the characters they created with the demo into the full retail game, so they don't have to start over from scratch if they are interested in continuing the fun! The Earth and Beyond Five Day Demo is available the next eight days (December 9 - 16) to everyone, so if you want to give it a spin, make with the downloading! Below is a list of system requirements - you'll need to have a PC with the following: System Requirements: Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 or higher), Windows 98 (Windows 95 and Windows NT are not supported) 56 Kbps or faster Internet connection 500 MHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor 128 MB RAM 4x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive 1.5 GB free hard disk space (additional space required for Windows swap-file and DirectX(tm) 8.1 installation) 32 MB Hardware Accelerated video card with DirectX 8.1 compatible driver DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card Keyboard Mouse