The Ransom For This Game Should Not Be 1 million $.
User Rating: 7.6 | Evil Genius PC
Evil Genius is a compliment of the Austin Powers parody movies. You have the choice of being one of three evil geniuses. Depending on the person that you choose to be your evil leader, you will have different abilities with each, but it really doesn’t matter because none of the special abilities are better than any other. You start off with no notoriety and only the most basic of workers. As you progress you will have to steal money and perform Acts of Infamy to become more famous and to receive better minions and items. You final objective, which should be pretty obvious, is to take over the world. You will have to play a decent amount before you will get a chance to take over the world but it can be an interesting journey to it. As you perform acts of infamy you will be able to train your lowliest minions into greater warriors, science minions, and diplomatic minions. These will be needed later as you progress to harder and harder missions. Also along the way you will be able to recruit more henchman, or your right hand men or women. These are the most valuable assets that you will have on your journey to conquering the world. They are much more powerful than your minions and they can be directly controlled, as opposed to your minions. The game play is the only real stand out of the game although it does have its downfall. As you perform acts of infamy you will be able to receive loot in which you can research to gain better things. Unfortunately one of the downfalls is that you do not get to choose which stuff the minions will research they will choose what to research and you will choose what device to research it with. The idea of the missions is good in theory but they get old after a while. Plus after a while you will have the super agents of good after you, but until a certain point you can not kill them, and they are extremely hard to stop. After a while you will just feel like finishing the game in order to see what the end is like. The graphics in the game are not really strong. The cut-scenes that you will see at only very short intervals and only a few times, are so spectacular that you want them to last longer or for more of them to be there. The regular graphics do not really seem bad or good. You wouldn’t really expect to see some really good graphics on a strategy type game, so it’s not like you are disappointed by the fact that they are not as good as other games. The sound in this game is extremely disappointing. You will hear the same music, over and over. They don’t even really try to get any really cheesy music that would go along with the type of game it is. I don’t expect to hear totally different music throughout the entire game, but I also don’t expect to hear the same tune more than once within an hour of playing. The value of the game is ok. The price now is about 29.99. It is a game that will keep you entertained for a decent amount of time, but don’t be surprised if you want it to end after a while. I suggest that you download the demo and give that a try before you go out and sink that kind of money into it. The full version is a little different, but it is the same deal as the demo.
