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Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a flashback to the spy movies of my youth. Great concept of a genre that is wearing thin. Fun, addictive, top notch. Would love to see a sequel but hard to top this.

Wonderful game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A few years ago, I bought this game for my boyfriend. He played it for almost 2 months, exclusively. He is a video/pc game addict, and for him to concentrate on one game for so long is extraordinary. He would finish the game, then go back and start over. Through the past 2 or 3 years, he would reinstall the game and play it through a few times, sort of a comfort-game for him. Recently, he attempted to reinstall the game and, sadly, one of the discs was scratched beyond repair. He was deeply disappointed. He looked like a child who had lost his blankey. So, I ordered it for him, and the second he recieved it, he tore it open and has played it at least once a week ever since. Thank you for making my gaming addict happy again!!

An Amazing game that everyone in the family can enjoy.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Evil Genius is an amazingly addictive strategy game (sort of a Sims game). It has great humor, great graphics, great sound, and lots of great gameplay. In the game you build an evil lair and send your minions around the world doing evil deeds. Meanwhile you raise cash, more minions, build a bigger base, buid traps, and defend your base against the nasty do-gooder agents (ala James Bond) trying to take you down.

Doing all of these things is great fun. Just deciding on your base design is fun and the graphic animations are terrifc so just watching things happen is entertaining. Fortunately the game will easily take you 40 hours or more to complete and you will certainly want to play it at least one more time to incorporate all you learned on your first play.

Overall, Evil Genius is a great mix of strategy and campy humor that will probably keep you playing long into the night.

Evil is just the half of it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When it comes to world domination you got them wiped into shape. This game was a load of fun and its get better when you start just mass killing everything that move. I would recumend it for anyone who like to manage minions to do your bidding

Evil Genius' Genius!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The first time that I played this game it was a French language version, so I found the terms used for minions and other such encountered rather.. interesting, however the vocabulary was not detrimental to the sheer quality of the gameplay. You are an Evil Genius [evil laugh] and you must build your reputation, your wealth and just how much of the world is in the grip of your power with acts of infamy. Over time secret organizations of do-gooders send off pesky threats and secret agents to take you down but with your lair built to be as deadly as it is entertaining for you, you can simply sit back and watch them fry. What fun! The graphics remind me of The Sims, as does the language the people employ if you zoom in on them enough. Ochestrated music definitely add a touch of class to your evil biddings, no matter how horrific. All in all, this is a GREAT Evil Genius traini-- I mean simulation.. Yes.

Entertaining and fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Evil Genius is a simulation game where you basically get to be like Mr. Evil from Austin Powers. You build a base of operations, hire minions to do your dirty work, gain infamy and be the biggest, baddest evil genius out there. You also have to guard against spies and goody goody people. You steal money and create weapons. All of this is done to take over the world. I had to buy 2 copies of the game because my boyfriend kept borrowing the first one I had. It is fun to play side by side with another person. It is cool to see how you do things differently. I highly recommend this game.

Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really like all the items that you can buy in this game. The graphics are really good except when theres alot of characters on the display which results in a slowdown.

One of my all-time favorite games!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely love this game and have played it dozens of times always changing my base designs and placement of traps. If you like the Sean Connery James Bond stuff and Austin Powers movies then you will love this game. Everything is a parody of the 60's Bond films from the animations and the voices of the characters, to the music and the dialog (which always makes me laugh).

The game has a "cartoonish" feel to the graphics and animation which makes it even more fun to play. The violence in the game sounds pretty horrific but it's actually very toned down, yes you get to put the Russian in the mixer but he ends up spinning around and around like a crazy windmill. You "torture" your enemies with Michael Jackson moonwalk impressions and by banging loud cymbals together and your evil genius always comes down to the armory to cackle gleefully over their "suffering". You build traps with laughing gas, piranha tanks, and Do-Not-Press buttons which of course your enemies ALWAYS end up pressing, and don't miss the Venus Man Trap which is my personal favorite. The only violent part that I've had a problem with is when people are set on fire, then they run around screaming while they burn to a crisp. It's a little gruesome so I try to avoid fire traps, I always feel too guilty afterwards.

One thing though, this game is mostly about building and resource management. Yes, you have objectives and Acts Of Infamy to complete but you end up watching the clock and moving your minions around, you're not actively involved in the "action" sequences at all. The majority of your time is spent on micromanaging your minions, building rooms, and placing objects inside. It takes time for things to get going but once you have a simple base set up with equipment and traps set then you can really start having fun.

Note: I highly recommend buying the Prima Evil Genius Strategy Guide with this game. You have a ton of traps, artifacts, and objects and the guide lists everything including all of the henchmen, minions, and enemies available and their strengths and weaknesses. I went through each item and added the size of the objects (2x2 sq., etc.) which strangely enough is not listed in the guide, but It's an enormous help when planning the size and layouts of your rooms.

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't too sure what I would think of Evil Genius. I knew it was a bit like Dungeon Keeper and I still play that game, so i decided to give evil genius a try. I'm hooked! Every game has its little issues that one could complain about for hours but I'm "the glass is half full" kind of guy. The premise of the game is fun, the controls are very easy, the characters poke fun at all the James Bond/Austin Powers ideas. I love sending henchmen out on the world map to steal and plot and especially to pull off Acts of Infamy. There isn't a whole lot of micromanagment which I personally like.

Sometimes the AI of your henchmen can be frustrating (especially when the Soldiers arrive on your island and start shooting your Valets. However, it's not that big of a deal and the rest of the game more than makes up for the few shortcomings.

I especially love the music. It was really well arranged and definately captures the James Bond feel and style. Adding the syncronized divers in the background of the save game screen is priceless!

I highly recommend getting this game as it will provide hours of fun.

Too Tedious To Be Great, Yet EVIL Manages to Entertain

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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Its not a bad game at all, but just as CNET describes, it takes an awful long time to get going.

It seems to take forever to steal enough money from around the world to build your Evil Fortress...on an island that just isn't big enough.

The other problem is the clicking back and forth between the island, the Minion Management screen, and the World Domination screen.

The sucesss of your plotting and evil deeds are determined by a random program, not by any skill of the player, which is a bummer.

But yet the game is amazingly non-violent, even though the content is violent. Its all done with a sense of humor mixed in with a reverse parody of the James Bond thrillers.

My 12 year-old neighbor is crazy about it and can't wait to put enemies in the giant mixer...when he can afford to buy it. It is delightfully silly...except when you have to wait around stealing money, which consists of placing some of your minions on a country in the world map. Then you wait and watch as your income numbers increase, before your minions disappear(in that country). Ho Hum. That's it...that's the stealing, and the plotting, and the acts of infamy. You do nothing else but place your required minions on the map and sometimes you get to click on the word "GO". That is the down side of the game...and it takes days and hours and days and hours to get enough money to get things going.

The upside of the game is designing your evil base of operations. The booby traps are fun(it is just getting to that point with enough money and infamy). I do agree with CNET that the island is too small, everything you build has to be cramped in to fit.

The musical score is wonderful as well as the creative ideas of what to do with "enemy agents", which is as I mentioned earlier more satirical and campy than violent.

Its a great game for boys who have never played a campaign like "Elder Scrolls" or "Baldur's Gate II".
It is a good learning game.

Girls might get bored with it, I did. mjh

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