This game lets my life long dream of taking over the world through evil scheming finally come true - and boy is it fun.

User Rating: 8.6 | Evil Genius PC
I know you have a similar dream as mine. You must. Everyone wants to take over the world, don't they? Not only does Evil Genius let me take over the world, but it lets me have a hilariously good time too! Evil Genius starts you off by giving you control of a small island, on which you begin creating your secret super evil lair. The game starts off slow, but you'll eventually find yourself building a maze of corridors, rooms, and booby traps. The game revolves around you sending out minions around the world to take part in criminal activites, while fending off government agents from investigating your secret den. So, you recruit a few generic minions, train them up a bit with some fighting skills and weapons skills into a mercanary, and then send a few out to steal some cash from the eastern united states. They'll be bringing in an income for you to better build your base, but at the same time they'll be generating heat from the local government, who will most likely respond by sending agents to occasionally investigate your base. Eventually, you'll have built up your base and gained enough cash to outfit it with decent booby traps - laser trip beams, tanks of pirhanas, poisonus gas chambers, hidden sawblades, and much much more. If you're lucky, you'll get to see a few snooping agents get caught in the traps, as they are truely hilarious to watch. After you've nearly killed one of those snooping agents, isnt it about time to interrogate them? Interogating can be seriously funny stuff, as you watch one of your minions do extremely agrivating things to their prisoners, all the while you stand by and gloat to them about your secret plans. Of course, you have many secret plans up your sleeve. And just as you could send out minions to steal money for you, you can send them out to plot and scheme up some totally nefarious deeds for you to take on. Once you've got a few great plans cooked up, you can execute them simiarly to stealing or plotting. Your deeds range from stealing famous artwork from around the world, to blowing up a storehouse of gold, and even to stealing the Eiffel tower. Gameplay is pretty good once you get the hang of how things work, but that can take a little while. The graphics are pretty snazy, and the sound is aproprate as well. Evil Genius is probably the most fun i've had in a while, the idea of building a secret base, guarding it from agents, and doing evil deeds across the world, is just plain fun. I reccomend this game to anyone who's up for a change from the tried and true gameplay of more popular genres, and anyone who has a few spare bucks.