Evil Genius 2: World Domination

I'm actually split between recommending this game or not. On one side, it's a beautifully stylized experience that addresses many issues its predecessor had, while manages to retain the spark what the old game had. However, on the other side sits an incredibly clunky UI experience that I strongly believe needs some serious work. Often used options are buried under multiple click menus, with slow responding animations. The camera is slow and also not sufficiently responsive and the mouse needs some acceleration too. The experience feels more sterile now that is modernized. Workers work with their big "guns" on pretty much anything. No body-bags, freezer or dynamite. It's faster, cleaner, but with that, you lose a lot of the charm. The experience to fight a little against the game, to figure out the best approach and not be flooded with body bags or some other issues. The simulation is too good to its own detriment. But on the flip side, it's as enjoyable to build your evil layer as I remember it from the old game. In the end, it's not perfect. It could be much better, and i hope the devs have the opportunity to improve it.

I like the game, but the bugs are horrible. i hope the developers fix it.

Kein "Austin Powers" mehr - Nur noch "ich einfach unverbesserlich". Ich habe den ersten Teil rauf und runter gespielt und bin von dem 2. Teil echt enttäuscht. Die Minions Salutieren nicht mehr, wenn der Boss kommt, kein Tag Nachtwechsel, die Toten werden nicht mehr in Säcken rumgetragen...generell alles was die minions machen is dieses Dumme komische Multitool rausholen. Multitool für Räume bauen, Multitool für leichen Wegschaffen. Ein wunder, dass Trainigs nicht auch damit gemacht werden. Es wird nicht mehr die gesamte Insel benutzt. Bedeutet keine Außenanlagen mehr. Alles ist jetz weich gespühlt und gemacht für Kinder und nicht für Erwachsene. Es will witzig sein auf Krampf. Ich spiele weiterhin den 1. Teil.

Красиво, и хотелось бы наслаждаться, но скучно. Прогресс очень медленный, помещения по большей части бесполезны. Управление местами неудобное. Глобальные миссии - кругляшки с прогрессом, и ничего более.

i want to like this game, i really do. i loved the original, the aesthetic is there, and development seemed promising. and then i finally got to the gameplay. my god, i cannot stress how utterly boring it is. perhaps it is how i play, but it is just so slow to do anything, not helped that you can only do one mission storyline at a time, one research at a time, one major event at a time. there is little to do between those things besides expanding your base (past a certain point, this is essentially just busywork), fighting off agents that only ever go through your casino because most of them are regular investigators and barely any special agents show up if you build it right, or just sending minions off to do random missions. a few things off the top of my head as to why i dislike this game: agents are no longer visually distinct with what region they're from, which is a total shame; specialized agents like rogues or saboteurs barely show up, and soldiers are basically a minor nuisance at best and a nonissue at worst; all of the dialogue written for the evil geniuses are the same outside of their story missions which doesn't give them much personality; perhaps most minor of all but something i felt was a shame was the 'streamlining' of each of the agencies, so they're not as scattered and a reference to cold war political alignments in the first game. also, things are either terribly balanced or not balanced at all; i thought this game would have received more than a handful of patches and updates, but no, there's nothing to address glaring issues like how traps are uhhh kind of useless besides maybe the bare minimum to alert you or soften up super agents. one major balancing thing that took way longer than should have been to fix was the issue of power generation: it was a stopgap for nearly everything and you had to dedicate a ridiculous amount of space to get enough power for all of your facilities. they fixed it, thankfully, and then added the issue of heat generation which is a non-issue but back when the dlc released, it was frankly ridiculous how many air conditioners you needed. oh also, decorations take up valuable tile space which would be okay if they added any sort of benefit, but most generally are not worth it. maybe things like the chairs to allow technicians or scientists to hang around your labs, but that's about all i can think of the extend of decorations' usefulness. overall, i was pretty disappointed with the game. i couldn't finish my run because i just... got bored. there's nothing to really encourage changing up your strategy or anything that requires thinking, it's all a numbers game - raise up power, get more money, get more minions, get more powerful minions, etc etc. it's a shame because i really did believe this game would have been fun for me.

手下 AI 像智障一樣，敵人來了瘋狂去送頭，沒有人顧設施，發電站、無線電站全部都壞了，沒有技工要去修 設施沒有人用也會慢慢消耗耐久度、佔用電量，如果要省發電、和維修的時間，就要一直手動去開關它，非常麻煩 人口上限根本沒有什麼用，因為一個敵人來，你人口就從 100 剩 20，人口補充的速度也沒辦法提升，只能花時間等 天才的操作也很迷，跟敵人遠距離戰鬥，已經剩半血了我要叫他離開去補血，結果他卻不聽操作，偏偏要往前被敵人打，需要狂點左鍵，才有機會叫他往回走。而天才死掉就 Game Over 了，超爛的設計。 跟敵人戰鬥時，旁邊的陷阱很容易失火，然後延燒，而雜工不救火反而要跑來戰鬥送死。失火沒多久東西馬上被燒掉，導致每次都要重蓋一整片區域。屍袋卻不會被燒掉？等到整理完後，下一波敵人又差不多來了，無窮迴圈。

I would have liked to like this game but it is not one, rather a chore. Most of the gameplay is repeating the same pattern again in the world map, leaving the base view grind away. At the end, when every goon and soldier is thrown at you, you would encounter problems with not being able to replace minions that are killed with single shot enemies. I can't believe I grinded this to the end game even, I should have stopped earlier.

Play the first one. EG2 is OK, even after all this time it has bugs. Lots of gloss with less substance under the surface. It lacks the grit of the first game by simplifying too much. If you haven't played the first, do that. Otherwise, wait until heavily discounted and enjoy the first dozen or so hours until bogged down with unlimited cash, substandard traps and pointless repetativity.