Review: Evil Genius

The drive to be an evil genius is an easily understandable one. Riches, power, eventual fame, and plenty of minions to order around are just some of the perks of the vocation. Vivendi's Evil Genius (flash required) gives you the opportunity to exercise your lust for worldly power in a seriously stylish way. A rich musical score, tons of polish, and enough dastardly deeds to keep even Dr. Claw happy are the game's high points. An overabundance of micromanagement and a lack of proper GUI interaction marrs what have could been a classic in the strategy genre. Read on for a more in-depth examination of the first real-time strategy game whose tag line could have been "Mwahahahahahahahaha!"

• Title: Evil Genius
• Developer: Elixir Studios
• Publisher: Vivendi Universal
• Reviewer: Zonk
• Score: 6/10

The concept of Evil Genius is simple: You're an arch-villain just starting out in your quest for world power after a stint in the slammer. When you start the game you have some spending cash, a couple of mooks, and a henchman. You can choose to control one of three archetypal archvillains. Your options include a Fu Manchu Asian spymaster, a Cruella DeVille-esque dame of disaster, and a Dr. Evil inspired shorty. Each of them has slightly different effects on their minions, but in playing with each of them the difference didn't seem to be drastic. The game follows your journey from obscurity to world-girding superiority. The way to accomplish the goal of ruling the world is to follow the stereotype of villains the world over: Build a Secret Lair. From your den of evil you can send out minions to rob the world blind and perpetuate acts of infamy. As you gain notoriety the world governments become hip to your plans and begin to send agents to stop you. Much of the game's action is an interplay between the base building experience and a risk-like board where you move your minions across the world. 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).

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.

That was fast

Never would of thought a book about Bush could come out so soon after his reelection.

Re:That was fast

Never thought someone so anti-Bush would call him a genius...

Well the elections are over

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.

How evil are you?

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.

Re:How evil are you?

I voted for Bush.

Just as evil, but all I needed was a Diebold machine and a couple hours to kill.

Re:How evil are you?

I altered the vote for Bush, to make sure that he only won by a slim margin.

Even more evil, because it keeps the democrats with a slim, yet desperate hope for DAYS before ruthlessly crushing it...

Re:How evil are you?

Ahh, yes. Electronic murders are always fun, though i prefer my own killing machines.

For example:

class population:
def __init__(self,size=None):
self.size = size # size of population

def kill(self,howMany=None):
self.size -= howMany
print "You just killed " , size ," people"

earth = population(6000000000)
earth.kill(2000000000)

Bwahaha!!!

Nice idea...

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.

http://www.lansmash.com/ [lansmash.com]

Re:Nice idea...

I did try the demo a while back and this article lets me know that my first impression wasn't too far off. As the AC parent mentions, being an evil genius should be fun - not a bunch of waiting and micro-managing. I'd guess that the demo was really not much more than the tutorial with limitations. It never accessed the 2D world part of the game - only the island - but it got quickly boring having to watch for and deal with every invading agent. Neither henchman would pro-actively defend the base. I had to tag every agent. Early on I was tagging them all for killing, but the body bags pile up way too fast - and there just isn't enough space available.

Perhaps it is a sign of how evil I really am that I had more fun tagging my minions for death or not buying bunks so they couldn't sleep (I had quite a few dying of "heart attacks" while training to be guards). Now that was kinda fun.

Red Alert?

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

Re:Red Alert?

Aside from listening to the noise of the alarm going on constantly and the body bags piling up, I didn't see a drawback either. It might have affected training negatively or slowed down construction work. At least the agents were never smart enough to grab the briefcases of ill-gotten loot and leave the island (speaking of which, what kind of moronic agent parachutes onto an island with no way off? I had guys wandering around all over the island one time - for what?)

Re:Nice idea...

> > There is only so much I can take of seeing the same torture sequences."
>
> So its the game's fault that you only figured out how to use one device for torture?

Yeah, talk about having the wrong attitude for this game.

The fun part of torture isn't the victim's reaction (let's be honest here, that gets pretty old after the first few hundred times), it's the feeling of... well, you know... that happy giddy evil feeling that comes over you while you're making up your diabolical little mind about which implements of destruction you want to use today.

"Hmm, bamboo splints? Naw, done that. The red-hot tongs? Feh, too middle-ages. The human-sized garlic press? Maybe, but one of my cuter minions and I had garlic bread for lunch with a lovely glass of Merlot, and why spoil the lovely aftertaste with sprayed blood and organ bits? Roll dice to see which limb to burn off with the house-sized magnifying glass? Bah, I got bored of that with ants when I was six... The box that drops rubber hammer on them, once every 10 seconds, for six hours until they get used to it, which is when you switch to a real hammer? Oh, bother... Decisions, decisions, decisions... so much evil to do, so little time..."

Great Game. Some annoyances.

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 :)

Re:Great Game. Some annoyances.

Transport Tycoon Deluxe has some "extra" patches and stuff available, and as far as I'm aware OpenTTD [openttd.com] improves upon them, that help automate a lot of stuff.

The thing about Evil Genius...

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!

Re:The thing about Evil Genius...

> I end up with no minions because I'm so evil I kill them all myself :(

That's because you weren't playing Evil Genius, you were playing Sims 2!

My Opinion

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.

Top hundred things to do....

When you become an evil overlord [eviloverlord.com]

Re:Top hundred things to do....

Oh no, somebody please show him the list.

One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.

So what are we going to do tonight Brain?

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.

Black and White revisited

Just like black and white once you get on the second island it just becomes a game of repetitive tasks.

What? No Harem O' Hos?!?

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...

Re:What? No Harem O' Hos?!?

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.

Micromanagement.

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)

Re:Micromanagement.

More truth than you know..
Good organizations are founded on uplifting and positive interaction.. a good orginization can carry on with a key component (read, individual) missing or temporarily disabled,

and an evil company falls apart when a supervisor or figurehead is taken out, because everone at Evil org has been jealously guarding their patch of turf....

at the facility I work, I maintain a 3 ring notebook with maybe 20 loose pages of the werid technical things I am always doing top of my head, if I worked at a place where I felt the need to protect my very existance I wouldn't have done that

My Questions...

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.

Score

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.

Was anyone surprised...

...That Evil couldn't run on Macintosh?

If anyone remembers...

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?

Why are all the evil henchmen black?

Look at the cast page in the Flash. All the evil henchmen are black - even the Russian one.

Dungeon Keeper

Read on for a more in-depth examination of the first real-time strategy game whose tag line could have been "Mwahahahahahahahaha!

What about Dungeon Keeper?

This seems wrong to me

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.

Demo Question

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.

6/10 ?! - it's a piece of shit game

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.

Huuuuge download

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?

Buggy

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.

Pretty much in agreement

It had a strong concept, a good start up, but got the potential got squandered in the final execution.

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.

Could have been the next Dungeon Keeper...

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.

Evil Genius vs. DK2 + an revivew of the former

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.

addiction grade

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.

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 ... and you can't make any cash ... and then the bond types pick off the head scratchers one by one.

If you have no idea what that meant, play it and find out.

Typo in the review ...

Shouldn't

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!"

Micromanagement

No, this is not a bug... It enhances the evil.

I'm just curious...

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!)

For your super villian needs

Villain Supply [villainsupply.com]

This is where I personally find all of my super evil genius supplies!

Hiring minions to build our army of killer robots

Here's your opportunity to become an Evil Genius in the real world. We're hiring minions to build our army of killer robots. [overbot.com] Must know C++ and be in Silicon Valley. Game programming experience a plus. Help build America's robot army!

Riches and Power?

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?

Real Ultimate Power?

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/ [realultimatepower.net]

Windows only...

I'm shocjed that this has been on /. so long yet no-one on the main page mentions the 'L' word :o

Professional Reviews

More info and professional reviews from the top gaming sites to be found at http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/915014.asp [gamerankings.com] 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.

Supplies For All Your Villainous Needs

One of my favorite sites, www.villainsupply.com [villainsupply.com] has everything an aspiring evil genius might need, from gear for your henchpeople to lairs to doomsday devices. Absolutely hilarious.

Nice editorial. . .

I hope everybody gets the point here. (Heck, I hope I'm reading the point correctly!)

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

Direct movie links

Dug out one for myself and decided to get the other and post them here for everyone else:

WMV [sierra.com]
MOV [sierra.com]

so where's the Linux version then???

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...

One game to rule them all...

So, what about Dungeon Keeper?

MWahahaha

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.

Re:More twits writing here ...

Apparently as someone who has spent most of their natural lives working to become and evil genius you're offended by this poster's reckless disregard for the contemplative art of becomming a true evil genius. Makes me think of . . .

"That Dr. Evil. I didn't spend four years in evil medical school to be called Mr., thank you very much.".

More anons posting nitpicking bullshit here . . .