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Thursday 7 February, 2008
SUMMARY
In Evil Genius, you play as one of three budding Evil Geniuses bent on world domination. You arrive on an empty island, and proceed to carve out a secret base inside the mountain on the island. You don't do any pf the work yourself, you do it indirectly by ordering your henchmen and minions around. Eventually, you steal a doomsday device and hold the world for ransom, thereby cementing your place as a true Evil Genius.
GAMEPLAY
Evil Genius is played from a "God-View" perspective, that is you are basically a camera floating above the island that you move around. The only characters you actually control directly are the Evil Genius himself (or herself), and your henchmen, unique characters each with their own strengths and powers. Players start out with only one henchman, and (obviously) only one Evil Genius. The rest of your manpower is created by your minions, who you constantly replenish every minute, and who you can only control by creating orders tags.
Whenever you create a new room, buy a new object, or order the death of an agent, you do so by creating a tag over the appropriate object, and minions are then assigned to that task as soon as they are able. As the game progresses, you can recruit more and more minions, and you also receive specialized types of minions. You may eventually find soldiers to guard your base, technicians to repair damaged objects, and even valets to help your minions from collapsing from overwork.
Another major part of the game is the world domination screen. The screen is a map of the world, divided into five agencies of justice, and further divided into four territories for each agency. From this screen you can order your henchmen and minions to go to the different territories and steal money and objects. If you order minions to steal, they send back a mixed amount of money per minute, the amont of which depends on how many minions you send and what territory they are in. Their are also special missions on the screen called acts of infamy, which when completed usually give you some reward, as well as increasing your noteriety, which allows you to recruit more minions.
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