The game is a follow-up to Elixir's real-time, lair-management strategy sim, which came out back in 2004 courtesy of publisher Sierra. Rebellion, the UK video game company behind the Sniper Elite series, picked up the rights to Evil Genius in 2006.
"We'd like to make this super-duper clear," Rebellion said in a note to press. "This isn't a remaster. Evil Genius 2 will be a fully-fledged sequel and it won't be free-to-play. Our focus currently is on a PC release, but as ever we'll look at other platforms and see what fits and what doesn't."
Development only began this spring so the project is still at an early stage. Rebellion's working on the tech as Evil Genius 2 is the first real-time strategy game built on its in-house engine Asura.
Rebellion talked a bit about a planned crowdfunding campaign for Evil Genius 2 it decided not to go ahead with a while back.
"Firstly, we were in the middle of a big transition into becoming our own publisher and we needed to put resources into the projects that became Zombie Army Trilogy, Battlezone on PSVR and Sniper Elite 3 and 4," the company explained.
"Secondly, we decided crowd-funding wasn't the way we wanted to go. After the growing success of the Sniper Elite series and other Rebellion games IP, we started to feel it wasn't fair to ask fans to fund a new game if we didn't need them to! With some big projects now out the door and being enjoyed by gamers worldwide, we feel like now is the time to return to the world of Evil Genius."
That said, I'm almost positive they'll fuck it up somehow.
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Finally they are doing something with the IP. Quite liked what little I played of the revived Sniper Elite games, so I'm kinda hopeful. Hell, if they keep everything as it was and just add an endless, more random game mode, I'd be happy.
I adored the original, but once you play through it, you are kinda done. The different doomsday devices are pretty much just just there to decide which outro you want to watch at the end.
at least they said "no shitty f2p, full fledged game".
i have to remind all of you, that they tried to do a facebook game with ingame purchases and whatever else: guess how it ended up.
i'm giving them a little of hope: also the game was "quite" moddable, but the community was very low and like 2-3 talented people were modding it with bonus henchman or even quality of life improvements.
i reeeeeeally hope they gonna go steam workshop integration, because the game could blast every other management sim right now.
i'm giving them a little of hope: also the game was "quite" moddable, but the community was very low and like 2-3 talented people were modding it with bonus henchman or even quality of life improvements.
i reeeeeeally hope they gonna go steam workshop integration, because the game could blast every other management sim right now.
A big part of what made the original so great was the delightful way in which the visual style, music, and characters came together. It was, pretty much "Dr. Evil - The Game".
Elixir knew not to take it too seriously, and that's what gave it all its charm. Sadly, unless they've got the artist and composer from Elixir working for them at Rebellion, I doubt they'll be able to recapture that magic.
Even if they manage to improve the dreadful combat system (although I understand why it was done the way it was - you're merely a guiding hand rather than the fist - that's what your people were for), if they can't make it "feel" like Evil Genius it's going to end up mediocre at best. No amount of modding will save it.
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But then, as much as I'd like to shout an ecstatic weeee for the unexpected pleasant news (Evil Genius really was a brilliant game), I just can't help but be diffident and glare at the thing with suspicion. They've sucked the joy out of our inner selves, no wonder we're grumpy cats
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Jason Kingsley is such an intelligent person. I absolutely love his youtube series about medieval knights. I never knew he was the CEO of Rebellion! I need to check out some of their games.
Here's to hoping they defy all the odds and pull this off!
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One of my favorite games...till now I play here and there. But this: looks way too cartoonish even for this series. Hopefully it won't suck at gameplay. Finger crossed
One of my favorite games...till now I play here and there. But this: looks way too cartoonish even for this series. Hopefully it won't suck at gameplay. Finger crossed
Original game was pretty cartoonish as well, maybe this is a bit more but it looks good enough
So far everything went better than expected, here's hoping they can find the right balance of QoL improvements without watering down the core gameplay/structure.
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