Perfect practice for an aspiring Evil Genius
Evil Genius is set in the Cold War, during the golden age of spying, you take the body of an aspiring EVIL genius. You start by making an lair built in a mountain. There are a variety of rooms to build; the basic is corridor, others are Barracks for your minions to rest, a freezer for body bags and a inner sanctum.
Two main resources exist in the game. Money which is in the form of gold bars and cool suitcases and the other are minions. The basic minion is construction workers not only do they construct but they also do oddjobs like man security desks. Over time you'll be able to kidnap people, interrogate them and use there skills for more advanced minions which fall into three catagories: Science, Military and Social. Science minions research and repair, military minions carry big guns and defend your base while social minions comfort your tired minions and psychologically weaken your enemies.
When you build the control room you can access to a world map which shows where act of infamys can be completed to raise your noitoriety in the world so you can hire new henchmen
No spy game worth it's salt would leave out Secret Agencies, and Evil Genius gives you five; H.A.M.M.E.R., S.M.A.S.H., A.N.V.I.L., S.A.B.R.E. and P.A.T.R.I.O.T., each has four types of agents; Investigators will look for incriminating evidence, Thieves will steal gold and loot, Sabateurs will blow your base up and Soldiers will assault your base.
Each Secret Agency has Super Secret Agent who will not die easily but all have an weak spot and will have to work it.
The bad of Evil Genius is the slowness, it does get boring waiting for agents to land or complete acts of infamy or find new ones and there are a number of bugs but do remember this was still in development , so Elixir decieded to gives a good game for there send off.
Many RTS WWII may let you play the bad guys (i.e. the Nazis) but what spy game allows you to be the baddie, to control is evil organisation, build his lair and control his minions. Evil Genius is the first in this genre and i hope Rebellion Studios (who bought Elixir's licences) make a sequel