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Review: Evil Genius
- Title: Evil Genius
- Developer: Elixir Studios
- Publisher: Vivendi Universal
- Reviewer: Zonk
- Score: 6/10
When loading up Evil Genius for the first time, you'll note that Elixir Studios has learned from past mistakes. The game features a very well crafted tutorial that gets you moving pretty quickly. At important moments the action pauses and full motion video clips of in-game actions are played to illustrate a point. Every basic act in the game, from minion creation to trap setup, is covered by the tutorial movies. While this helps a great deal to understand the basic concepts of the game, the tutorial and glossary quickly outlive their usefulness. The building blocks of the game are explained in detail (almost to the point of annoyance), but where more advanced help would be useful you're left on your own.
The initial experience of Evil Genius will be familiar to anyone who has played Peter Molyneaux's Dungeon Keeper. You utilize a tool to select an area of earth to be excavated. Construction worker minions do the demolitions and then put up finishing touches on a new room. Rooms and corridors make up your hidden base, and each room has a specific purpose. The first room you gain the ability to build is the barracks, which allows you to house and clothe your workers. The more barracks space you have, the more lockers you'll be able to have, and the more minions you can support. A training room with different furniture pieces allows you to transform your construction workers into more specialized forms. A combat dummy trains your construction worker to be a Guard, a lab set up will net you a technician, and a schooldesk will let your humble men be schooled in the ways of social manipulation as a valet. Other room types include a secure vault to house your loot, a security room where minions can monitor your base and interrogate captured snoops, and an opulent office complete with lavish conference table that allows you to host really evil meetings with other supervillains.
Minions are obtained through a simple requisition interface. You just adjust the number of minions you'd like to have, and at a certain cost over a length of time new minions show up on your deserted island. You have a cap on the number of minions you can control that depends on the number of lockers you have in barracks, similar to farms or supply depots from other RTS games. One nice touch that deviates from the norm is that in order to train a construction worker (the base minion) as another minion type, you must already have control over a minion of that type. The existing minion coaches the next unit in the ways of his trade. Minion types build on one another, so you can have a single minion that advances from a simple worker drone, to a suave valet, to a rich swinging playboy over the course of your game. To obtain additional minion types you must embark on raids into the wider world, kidnapping away a representative of the trade to instruct your workers.
These excursions begin relatively early in the game with simple kidnapping operations, but over time the focus of the game begins to move more and more onto the world stage. Minions are sent out from your island to the nations of the world, and the different minion types have varying effects on their host countries, depending on what you ask of them. Each nation has a simple mode set button. "Steal" will have your minions pulling down cash for you, while "Plot" will have your minions figuring out ways to cause mischief. Strongarm minions like guards and mercs net you more cash, while brainy minions like technicians and scientists are better schemers.
The interplay between minions on the world board and the activity in your base is maintained by a specific type of room: the Control Room. In this room there are control panels which must be staffed by minions at your base. Each area of the world requires a certain number of control panels to be staffed in order to get good intel on the area. Staffing these panels as reliably as possible is a constant battle, because workers are very dumb. There is a punch clock system that allows you to dictate how heavily the room must be staffed, but more often than not I ended up with a control room half filled with dazed, sleep starved minions.
One of the types of intel that the control panels collect is how much "heat" you have in any given part of the world. Any activity in a region will raise the heat level, indicating how visible you are to the forces of justice. The higher the heat, the more likely the forces of justice will come looking for you. This is expressed both on the island through snoopy spies and on the world map with tokens indicating agents actively looking for your minions in their home regions. Eventually the small groups of flunkie agents will be replaced by swat teams, military forces, and finally super-spies who require a base full of minions to take down.
This is the point where the game begins to break down. The strategy elements of the island map are easy to follow, and have easy to understand components like troop training, base building, and trap creation. The hard part comes when you have to keep an eye on your base and at the same time watch a flat, almost 2d world map where your minions are causing trouble. The real goals of the game are accomplished on this map in the form of Acts of Infamy. Plotting minions in a region suss out new acts to be performed, which appear on the world map as little flags. Each Act has minion requirements (4 Workers and a Valet, for example), and a timer. You complete the Act by hitting the Go button, sitting back and hoping. There's no interaction or player skill involved, other than a balance of how much heat you already have in the region vs. how many minions you have on site. The Acts usually take quite a while to perform, though this can be alleviated by bringing along more Technicians. Upon completion, you hear a radio or television broadcast giving backstory to what you've just accomplished.
When they're not participating in Acts of Infamy minions on the world map are constantly at risk from agents. Your role becomes that of a nervous clockwatcher as you zip back and forth every minute or so between the island and the world map. If you don't adopt this habit expect to lose a lot of minions. Notification of the presence of agents is extremely subtle, amounting to the map icon lighting up. Even this indicator is predicated on the Control Room being staffed properly. If you are communications impaired you can return to the world map after a few minutes of base building to find your forces abroad have been decimated. It's incredibly frustrating and very confusing when you first encounter the phenomenon, because the tutorial doesn't give you a good handle on what exactly you're doing wrong.
The half finished thought that is the tutorial system is a constant problem, and an earmark of what is wrong with this game. There just wasn't enough clarity put into the presentation of the game. The gameplay is there (in the form of base building and world map management) and the polish is there (in the form of a rich score and nice graphics), but all of the interfaces could use some clarity. Things will happen in the game, like minions deserting your evil empire, and you're not given nearly enough direction regarding how to resolve the issue. It took me a good fifteen minutes of digging to find out how to raise a minion's loyalty. Even then, the way to go about it (demonstrating your evilness to the minions via torture and loot) is cumbersome and difficult to go about on regular basis.
In the end the intriguing potential of this game is put to waste by the cumbersome interface and unclear goals. The gorgeous graphics of the island map and base building portions of the game are squandered, because most of the action in the game happens on a boring 2D world map. Much of this 2D time is spent waiting while your minions invisibly complete tasks, making your role supervisory in nature and kinda boring.
If the Dungeon Keeper style of game is gaming perfection for you and you don't mind sitting around a lot while the game plays for you, this will be your perfect game. Otherwise, I can't recommend this game for anyone other than a hardcore strategy gamer or a troubled youth with a Dr. Evil complex.
Never would of thought a book about Bush could come out so soon after his reelection.
We all know who the evil genius who will rule the US for the next 4 years is.
Actually, I guess he's not exactly a genius.
Well I must be getting more evil. I used to just enslave captured populations in Rome Total War, now I almost always exterminate them cos I like the sound effects.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
But poor execution.
There is only so much I can take of seeing the same torture sequences. It's a great idea, but somewhere along the lines they lost the fun appeal - it just isn't there.
I think too much micro management and work is required by the gamer to get anything out of this game. It's staying on the shelf while I head on back to Tribes Vengance.
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Not played it myself, but my roomie thinks its a great game. One downside, and its a very annoying one, is that you need to micromanage, and there's no way of setting up 'macros' to respond to condition changes in the game. Ie, you're in for a LOT Of button clicking.
:)
I had the same issue with Transport Tycoon all those years ago. Fantastic Game, great cheezy jazz music... the one really annoying downside is that you need to MANUALLY return your vehicles to depot and replace them when they get old and tired. Lots of clicking, especially if you play well beyond the intended length in the game
An overabundance of words and a lack of proper spelling marrs what could have been a decent slashdot article.
Is that it's too bloody hard. I end up with no minions because I'm so evil I kill them all myself :(
But anyway, Evil Genius is a great game, and although the genre isn't exactly original, the concept and to some extent the gameplay is. It's also incredibly fun, especially if you like tounge-in-cheek humor, and cartoonish style effects. 87%, well worth a purchase IMHO!
When first playing the game, I found it extremely intuitive and easy to play, with challenges later on. There is, however, what seems like a lot of grind to get your minions, loot and complete certain objectives.
There is also a lot of random, rather bizzare glitches which should have been caught in beta but for some reason weren't (No, they weren't caused by XPSP2). I'm hoping a patch (soon) fixes these and tweaks some balance.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
When you become an evil overlord
My pics.
Arch-villians are cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
Try to take over the world! I'm planning on buying this game when it comes out, main reason is lately I've been tired of always saving the world in a one man against all battle for good. I think the idea of being the villian is great idea once in awhile. I also plan on playing City of Villians as well. It's not like I want to be a bad guy, but killing demon hordes to protect the masses or foiling the dastardly bad guys who are always trying to take over the world has kind of got played out. I think this is a game that I would enjoy to play as much as I enjoy Fable where I can choose to be good or evil. Either way I think this will be a great game to play. Thanks for the review.
KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!
Just like black and white once you get on the second island it just becomes a game of repetitive tasks.
did you forget to take your meds?
What kind of Evil Genius can survive without a Harem O' Hos?!? Where's he suposed to get his inspiration for World Domination? Automatic -5 to whatever rating it's given. Even GTA knew the importance of hos...
Michalangelo Progr
An overabundance of micromanagement and a lack of proper GUI interaction marrs what have could been a classic...
What's wrong with a bit of excess micromanagement? I thought that was a hallmark of a true evil genius?
Does the phrase "I'll deal with him personally!" ring any bells? (spoken in a suitably sinister voice, of course)
(Spudley Strikes Again!)
1. Why couldn't they make the control room more realistic, looking like Starbucks?
2. You always need an evil helper, be it a test-tube son or some midget.
3. If you want to do it, download a demo of "The Political Machine" and pick your favorite side. That works for me.
This space for rent.
I think you gave it too low of a score. The game is really fun, but I think that once you go on the mod sites, you realize how much potential the game has. Frustrating bugs, too much tagging, and the death of minions is too easy. The game has the evil feeling down, and that is worth of a higher score, something like 8.0/10
The game really shines in its presentation. The little radio segments after the AOIs are priceless, and some of the ideas are just plain funny. The art style is great, and the music is kick ass! Too bad the theme music doesn't play during the game.
I think this game has a lot of potential, but it really needs some concepts added, like bases run on dummy corporations(the hotel building does not cut it), interactive AOIs, ability to buy off politicians, and other dastardly things. I would also like a true story line that really has some depth. I think having your son come onto the base and plead with you to stop would be priceless. The characters are a little flat, but a little bit of story could really push this game into the stellar category.
Mod Wisely.
Captain Electro, my favourite evil genius, has a twelve step guide to becoming a world-dominating success story. Hopefully, his wisdom and experience can help you, an aspiring minion, take over the world.
...That Evil couldn't run on Macintosh?
Indy Media Watch-Proctologist of the Internet
Dungeon Keeper 1 and/or 2, could you possibly post a comparison of these games together. I have the two older games which work on the same premises. I'd like to know if buying Evil Genius is just going to make me feel like playing a third iteration of DK.
Or is Evil Genius different enough to warrent as a different game.
I know they are both Real Time Strategy games, but do they differ like Command and Conquer and Warcraft did?
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
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Only note quite as much fun (if that's possible).
That includes you, Dick.
Since the first thing they'd do is fall in love with the agents and plot against you I can understand the decision to leave them out.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Looks like the game is doing pretty well in terms of ranking and reviews over here
Exactly. Where are the hedonistic rewards? Like "Kidnap an american actress and try to make her fall in love with you" and other evil cliches. Sadly, I'm sure these games would have a more 'adult' sense of humor if it wasnt for the game ratings and Walmart censors. A game like this should really be anti-political correctness, it would add a lot, and frankly it needs it. I played the demo and thanked myself for doing so instead of just buying it because it looked funny.
Your evil genius get a "bodyguard" of the other sex after reaching a certain notority. Of course this "bodyguard" cannot fight but looks suspiciously, lets say unbodyguardly...
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Look at the cast page in the Flash. All the evil henchmen are black - even the Russian one.
What about Dungeon Keeper?
Sharks with frikkin lasers??
In real life evil geniuses are people like Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden. In fact, both of these people were on quests to create the perfect doomsday weapon. This game will cause a generation of kids to grow up with similar ambitions. I'm going to stick with Vice City where the violence is on a much smaller scale and hence far less morally reprehensible.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
To conclude, I really don't think you're evil. Mr. pointy-hairy doesn't need to play computer games, he is the Satan of the office.
The Raven
For someone new to this style of gameplay, does anyone know what the specific limitations are on the demo download? I'm just curious if this will give me an idea if this is the type of game that I might enjoy. Also, do you have any suggestions for game's of this genre that might be a better place to start for a newb? Thanks much.
In the demo, I found myself leaving the base on "Red Alert" so that the minions would be armed, and kill agents on sight. I never quite figured out what the drawback of that would be, surely there is one?
-Zipwow
I don't know which is more depressing, that 2/3 didn't care enough to vote, or that 1/2 of those that did are crazy.
"The drive to be an evil genius is an easily understandable one."
Is it?
Unless you are an evil genius, how do you understand what the drive is to be one ?
Studied the subject for 30 years have you ?
Please STOP writing rubbish.
It's buggy as all get go, the graphics are horrible, there are tons better strategy games out on the market right now. Why on earth would anyone even bother with this game? Because of it's title.
Do yourself a favor and forget about it. If you really are curious warez it or wait a couple months for it to drop into the bargain bins of your local store. It's not worth your money or your time.
Ave Molech Setting
I haven't played games in a while, but the requirements for CPU/hardware get stiffer and the download size is ballooning as time passes. 199MB?
wish I could return it.
My favourite 'feature' is being able to progress in the game without acquiring all possible items. Items that will not be available later in the game, but are required for its completion.
paul reinheimer
It's quite humorous and the tag system had potential as a fairly effective way of controlling things without having to worry about the nity-grity of "you there, minion, go here, confuse this investigator". Sadly, minions still act far too stupidly to the tags, like 5 valets going to confuse 1 guy, and even when they do confuse them, they often just leave them standing around in your base to just recover. Henchmen are nice, but their nasty nack of running into super agents and getting killed without you being any the wiser is really annoying. Lastly, the build system needed some little tweaks here and there to removed frustration (like, if I want to move an object, it should be removed from the collision detection with itself, rooms should be easily expandable or changed to a different type, outdoor structures should be demolishable).
I seriously agree on the disappointing world scheming interface. It's really dull to sit there watching a dark green circle turn slowly bright green to indicate your progress and not much else. Most often, even when you succeed, you get the same generic news clip that you got for pretty much all the other infamy acts in that region which although humorous the first time, quickly loses it's impact.
Overall, not a game I'd recommend buying.
I was really hoping that this game would live up to the awesomeness that was Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2. However, the game is just flat out boring. Yeah, it's cool to build a lair, but there is no real individuality, as it all boils down to buying the most expensive things... Same with the games other concepts. If it were more open ended it might have been cool, and if there was more actual user interaction needed, but as is it's not up to snuff.
I've been playing this game for awhile. Its close and its not close to Dungeon Keeper II.
The idea is proberly about the same. You are supposed to take over the world. But the traps system is so different ly from DK2, that I wouldnt really be able to compare them. In Evil genius you chose which sensors (and what sensors (thouch pad, laser or movement sensors are the ones on top of my mind)) activate what trap, so you can make hole strings of traps (and you get some money based on how many traps an agent moves through in an short time) (if you get evil genius, try to make an cirkel of blow traps and watch the agents fly around the rest of their stupid lives).
the way you get money is also alot differently from DK2. You get money by robbing hole countries and not by getting some imps to cut out some gold for you.
Now we get to the part about getting more infamous (not really in DK2 -except if you count the completion of missions). you send out ppl that are suppose to eg. steal an artifact (eg. the space suit (for how can you take over the universe if your minons just die all the time?)) and by duing that ppl start to make way for you and you can hire more henchmens (the bad part is that enemy super heros start to appear - and they are annoying and nearly imposible to kill). The coolest thing about this system is the small radio transmissions afterwards about what happend. Some of the missions are plain stupid tho. Who have ever heard about an evil genius that DESTROYED an diamond mine (WITH DIAMONDS IN!)
The minons. They are different from DK2's by being specialesed (eg. quantum physics aint that good in the front line but very good at finding new things to research into and snipers are very good at picking peasky agents off at an distance)
The worst thing about this game is its lack of multiplayer (you can nearly hear it scream "play me in multiplayer") but no no multiplayer.
I think its worth about an 8 for overall and about 9,5 if you aint into multiplayer.
this game is a real addiction to me, and now I am pretty much done but it feels kind of like ... oh. ok, that ending sucked. Just like freespace.
... and you can't make any cash ... and then the bond types pick off the head scratchers one by one.
I liked dungeon keeper(s) and this is MUCH more polished. Just the number of bodymapped actions each character can do, and the little tiny jokes you only see zoomed right in.
The interface is ok, just a couple of major annoyances. I didn't have any problem jumping right into the game and dealing with complex shit without the tutorial.
The biggest problem is when you get totally EATEN by a huge wave attack and you are back down to like 20 men with 0 in the bank. THat can get dicey, when they are so busy collecting body bags they all die of loyalty
If you have no idea what that meant, play it and find out.
--- ask me about nihilism, I will have nothing to tell you.
the first real-time strategy game whose tag line could have been "Mwahahahahahahahaha!"
in fact read
the first real-time strategy game whose tag line could have been "four more years!"
No, this is not a bug... It enhances the evil.
"6/10 only looks bad to you because you're used to gamer mags that would give "Triple Insane Paintball Command Quake Engine XXX Extreme" a 7.5."
Come on! Triple Insane Paintball Command Quake Engine XXX Extreme RULEZ! Did you know there's a code for making their bikini tops disappear? And then they're all like, topless and stuff. With like their hooties showing? OMFG! HOOTIES!
- Lead Developer, Acclaim
Why does /. bother with anything related to games? I mean, there are PLENTY of much more detailed sites containing everything you could possibly want to know about any game released in the last 10 or so years... why bother with these reviews? There's no way that the same level of depth or even breadth could be applied here... To me it seems like a lack of focus.
Or perhaps I'm just an old fogey. (ugh, 30 years old!)
In the full game, you can set up security systems and traps to defend your base automatically, taking a lot of the micromanagement out of it.
Traps: These are entirely automatic. An enemy agent triggers the trap (by stepping on a pressure tile, interrupting a laser beam, or passing a motion sensor), the trap activates, and the enemy is killed or weakened, depending on your choice of trap. However, your own minions will accidentally activate the traps if they aren't paying close enough attention - i.e. if you haven't built enough staff rooms or placed enough loot to keep them alert.
Security systems: These require you to tag enemies before they'll work, but they're much more effective. You set up a security desk, which is linked to a network of cameras and loudspeakers. (You can have separate networks for different areas of your base.) When the desk is staffed, the security system will notice any tagged enemy who enters the range of the cameras, and use the loudspeakers to alert anyone within earshot. Any minions who hear the alert will rush to the enemy's location and deal with him.
Tagging agents for the security system isn't too much work. You just have to click around the minimap every few minutes looking for red dots. If you have doors on your base, you'll get an audio alert whenever someone breaks in, in case you forgot to tag them.
Visual IRC: Fast. Powerful. Free.
Dr. Claw??? Don't you mean the CRAW. Not the Craw, the Craw!!
Villain Supply
This is where I personally find all of my super evil genius supplies!
Here's your opportunity to become an Evil Genius in the real world. We're hiring minions to build our army of killer robots. Must know C++ and be in Silicon Valley. Game programming experience a plus. Help build America's robot army!
Riches, power, eventual fame, and plenty of minions to order around are just some of the perks of the vocation.
I haven't RTFA. Are they talking about Bush?
In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
The endgame comes when you complete all the goals the game has set for you over a series of chapters, and you gain Real Ultimate Power(tm).
I gain the power of ninjas? That's so cool I just punched myself in the face!
http://www.realultimatepower.net/
I'm shocjed that this has been on /. so long yet no-one on the main page mentions the 'L' word :o
More info and professional reviews from the top gaming sites to be found at http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/915014.asp The average score is apparently 77%, a good deal higher then the reviewer here, but 70% is where most reviewers seem to place playable but poor games, so that's not saying much.
That's because anybody who has seen the bile demons in Dungeon Keeper 2 will know that that game's tagline is "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down."
Grandparent was funny.
Parent is funny/insightful. You've gotta read the reply title.
One of my favorite sites, www.villainsupply.com has everything an aspiring evil genius might need, from gear for your henchpeople to lairs to doomsday devices. Absolutely hilarious.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
My commendations on creating havoc. This pathetic discussion forum will now have four more years to gripe!
h ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Perhaps you would like to check out the fine wares and warez at Villain Supply to further your future evil needs? If you've got the cash, we've got the evil! [TM]
* ( Posted anonymously to avoid those pesky agents who are after my WMDs! Silly federal agents, WMDs are for Evil Overlords! Offers void where legal, further restrictions may apply. See henchmen for details. WMDs may not be shipped to Iraq at this time. By purchasing one of our fine products, you agree to give us control of the world should you ever actually take control of it. This agreement is terminated whenever you are. )
Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
--
But this is the best part, this is when they... START RAPPING! Bwahahaha. "It's The Ledged Of Zelda and it's really rad. Those creatures from Gondorf are pretty bad." That is just a snippet from the rhyming prodigy's in this commercial. I don't really know what Nintendo was thinking when they thought up the idea for portraying their customers as hopeless dorks, but this is by far my favorite Nintendo commercial.
The demo's pretty crappy, imo; the full game is *much* better than it makes out, aside from the nasty list of bugs :/
If only you had the capacity to understand my genius. Ha Ha Ha Ha Hah.
cadaver that sexy bitch
Aside from the obvious reference here, I have an additional problem with games like this. .
To play a game of this nature trains people into the wavelength currently held by the Lord of America. The more you spend time playing a game like this, thinking and organizing data in streams which are directed toward control of others through dark methods, including I notice, torture (!), the more those particular synaptic pathways in your brain burn into wider pathways.
This is not so much behavior modification, as it is belief and emotion modification.
The objective of the psychopathic state is not just to destroy order and health, but to convert others to the ways of psychopathy. To create a state willing to do the work of the evil leaders.
Remember Westwood's "Command & Conquer"? --Five years or so of solid pathway-burning had people riding up front with drool and boners when the first U.S. tanks rolled into Baghdad. I remember many of you posting here like that back then. It wasn't until later that you realized you'd been had. (And some of you still haven't accepted that!)
Behavior modification through the media is quite real. Just because the people performing it don't realize it does not by any means suggest that there is no intelligence at work. --But that's okay; there are other programs running which work to create auto-ridicule reactions in people when such ideas are brought up. If we are lucky, some examples may follow. .
-FL
Dug out one for myself and decided to get the other and post them here for everyone else:
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We've been using the name since at least 2003. Is there any way we can protect our little group from a large corporation such as Vivendi?
...make all this comparisons to mortal games.
I have but three words for you:
Europa Universalis Two.
I have only, after a long, hard, cold struggle succeeded to escape its evil wrath of capture. The marks of my exams have suffered long and hard. My time is non-existant. I have yet to blink my eyes when I enjoy this game of divinity. This and J-Pop I consider a substitute for interactions with you mortals. There is nothing like invading Ireland while listening to the funky tunes of Ayumi Hamasaki. I'm Denmark, I'm telling you!!! I'm DENMARK!!!
-- Signed,
The typical EU2 player
That is to say, if you want a game that's fun addictive, deep, challenging and great, look no further than EU2 1.08 with the AGCEEP. Cheers!
I want to join in the fun, but damned if that "Evil Genius" Bill's getting any money from me just to be able to play a game...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Seriously though, has anybody seen a monacle around here? I seem to have misplaced mine.
"OH SHIT, THERE'S A HORSE IN THE HOSPITAL!"
From the FAQ
Be cautious with the base alert settings - if it is set to red alert, minions will automatically attack all agents; if it is set to yellow, minions will arm themselves, and an armed minion is regarded as more of a threat by the agents.
If the minion escorting the thief (for interrogation) sees an agent at red alert, he'll abandon the interrogation in favour of attacking the intruder.
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.
So, what about Dungeon Keeper?
I haven't played a book for years, papercuts are a bitch.
"Mwahahaha" is an insane or overexcited laugh, also usable by good guys.
"Muhuhahaha" (also "Buhuhahaha") connotes pure evil and is not usable by those of pure heart.
Video games get that shit OUT of your system. These guys have no outlet, so real people need to suffer.
I cannot totally agree. I know a LOT of guys who, to this day are very pro-Bush, very pro-war and who are video game addicts and whose behavior is clearly influenced by that kind of thinking; it infects their normal day to day dialogue, it affects what they think about, and it affects the decisions they make in life. Numerous of them have also either served or are currently serving in the military. I know quite a spread of people and this is not, I think, a localized phenomenon.
Whether video games came before or after the process of their world view is not the point. That such people are going to exist regardless of media is not the point. --The point is that such media is the lubricant which greases the machine of society, and social movements build a sort of gravity which can pull others along on behavioral trajectories which they would not necessarily have chosen otherwise. As we have seen, and what the recent election demonstrates, if you can get enough people following a certain trajectory, then the whole system will follow suit and become committed.
Sure, there are going to be people like you who are able to keep a firmer grasp on their own psyches. Heck, I played a lot of C&C-type games when I was younger. But, as we have seen, one only needs to lull about half a population into following an emperor in order to retain a lock on power.
If any single cause was too successful, spotlights would shine. Cumulative effects are where it's at.
-FL
Well at least you get to clone yourself to get some specific agents to kill them. Kinda like one of the first bonds with the multiple Blofelds.
I really loved this game. The soundtrack was awsome, the gameplay was fun, and with the minions making those sims style talk it's all just hilarius. You can finally take on the role of the extremly overelaborate evil genius. The only problem I had with the game was that they didn't do enough bug testing. Right now I'm stuck at the point where you switch to get a bigger island.... and the game keeps freezing at a certain point. So I can't move beyond it for now, but I'm waiting on a patch. Other than the bugs, and the slightly obscure control room screen, this game is great.
Most people aren't thought about after they're gone. "I wonder where Rob got the plutonium" is better than most get.