Advantages: Excellent gameplay, good humour, Good graphics and sound. Easy to control. Disadvantages: Very difficult at later stages, sometimes hard to figure out what to do.
...become an (you've guessed it…) EVIL GENIUS! What you have to do is built your secret lair inside a mountain using basic construction minions and your cash and then send your minions out into the world to perform missions. These missions may bring loot, advanced technology or different types of people, from whom you can extract knowledge and produce specialist minions. For example, if you capture a maid and interrogate her, then your basic construction ... ...it is linked with your evil reputation whereas heat is bad as it attracts all sorts of pesky do-gooders including Super Agents to your secret island base to snoop around.
In some ways, "Evil Genius" is exactly the same game as Dungeon Keeper, albeit with a few differences. Demis Hassibis (founder of Elixir) used to work at Bullfrog, the creators of Dungeon Keeper so the influence of that company's games is only to be expected really.
When I first ...
TheDuke 16.10.2006
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Advantages: Origional Gameplay, Great humour, Very stylised Disadvantages: Difficulty increase near the end of the game, Occasionaly annoying AI
...mountain (because of course every evil lair has to be underground!) and there are a large variety of rooms and objects to be researched. You protect your base against government agents with a large number of ingenious traps, cameras and gun toting henchmen. Traps range from air turbines in the wall to blast intruders back the way they came through to tesla coils and gun turrets in a slightly less subtle form of defence. Each mission has certain different ... ...old now I thoroughly believe it is one that can stand the test of time, it's just as playable now as it was when released and if you haven't tried it you should give it a go. Go forth...and show the world what a TRUE evil genius is. ...
whitehall_redgrade 06.03.2007
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