Evil Genius (PC) $4.99 on Steam, this weekend only
Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 09:38
This weekend only, Evil Genius for PC is at 50% off, on sale for just $4.99.
Basically the game is a mixture of The Sims and Austin Powers. You take on the role of... an evil genius! Yes, how appropriately-named, hm?
Anyway, you send your pawns out into the world to steal money, complete various nefarious schemes, and generally rid the world of goodness. Meanwhile you're back on your island constructing your very own custom doom fortress, complete with a hilarious array of traps and such.
As the game progresses, you become more and more notorious, attracting the attention of international anti-crime organizations and an equally impressive array of volunteer evil henchmen with all kinds of unique abilities.
You also have to make sure that your men remain loyal and alert at all times. Random executions work great for this.
It's not an amazing game by any means but it's reasonably fun and good for a laugh now and then. At $5 it's a steal.
I don't know when this came into effect since I haven't bought anything from Steam in... probably 6 months or so... but they now support Paypal. I'm going to be using this from now on just because I know that it means Valve gets even less of my money, greedy buggers.
Basically the game is a mixture of The Sims and Austin Powers. You take on the role of... an evil genius! Yes, how appropriately-named, hm?
Anyway, you send your pawns out into the world to steal money, complete various nefarious schemes, and generally rid the world of goodness. Meanwhile you're back on your island constructing your very own custom doom fortress, complete with a hilarious array of traps and such.
As the game progresses, you become more and more notorious, attracting the attention of international anti-crime organizations and an equally impressive array of volunteer evil henchmen with all kinds of unique abilities.
You also have to make sure that your men remain loyal and alert at all times. Random executions work great for this.
It's not an amazing game by any means but it's reasonably fun and good for a laugh now and then. At $5 it's a steal.
I don't know when this came into effect since I haven't bought anything from Steam in... probably 6 months or so... but they now support Paypal. I'm going to be using this from now on just because I know that it means Valve gets even less of my money, greedy buggers.