Sierra Games Evil Geniuses
.: 1 October 2004, Mode(s) Evil Genius is a and developed by and published by, released on September 28, 2004. Since March 2, 2006, the intellectual property rights of the game have been owned. The game is inspired by the genre (notably the ), and is set in an 1960s–70s era. Most closely resembling, players act as a villainous force attempting to achieve global domination whilst fending off the forces of justice; to this end the gameplay is split between management of a base and the completion of 'acts of infamy' in the rest of the world. The game has stylish, -like visuals and contains a great deal of humour, particularly playing to of the spy genre. Contents.
Evil Genius is a game that allows you to simulate the work and tasks which an evil genius must go through in order to rule the world. Sierra homepage: External site.
Gameplay Evil Genius contains a mixture of and elements, and is described by as a 'real-time mad scientist strategic simulation'. Gameplay is split between managing a lair, together with the 'minions' that populate it, and the 'World Domination screen'.
The game is set in a non-specific time period, with the use of historic regions (the ) and events (the ) suggestive of the 1960s and 70s, albeit in an; furthermore, the styling of the game is reminiscent of the 1960s designs. Evil Genius consists of a single game mode wherein the ultimate goal is to build a and force the capitulation of the world to the player's 'Evil Genius'. This figure is selected at the beginning of the game from one of three choices—Maximilan, Alexis or Shen Yu—and acts as the player's; if killed, the game ends. A player-made lair containing several rooms and objects being used by minions The first lair is constructed within the base of a mountain on a desert island. During the course of the game the player relocates to a larger, tropical island, the extinct volcano at the centre of which is used as the foundation for a rocket silo.
The lair comprises various rooms, each of which contains objects for use by minions, either for the replenishment of certain 'stats' (e.g. Objects in the restore endurance) or to provide a function (e.g.
The Power Plant room contains objects that generate power and allow the lair to function). Corridors connect the rooms within the lair and can also contain traps, which serve as one of several ways to deter agents of justice and their attempts to enter the base and gather evidence, steal money, or sabotage equipment. Trap results vary from simple confusion and movement impairment to stat reduction and death, and catching agents within a combination of traps will reward the player with money. New objects can eventually be unlocked through the Laboratory via combining already-existing items with pieces of equipment. Players have no direct control over the minions they employ, but can interact with them using 'Henchmen' and the Evil Genius. Construction workers are the basic minion type and can be trained to specialize in one of three fields: military, scientific, or social. Each field has three successive minion levels, with the third level having two specialized branches.
Initially these higher branches are unlocked by acquiring and interrogating civilian hostages, after which their skills can be passed on to other minions via training equipment. Like the Evil Genius, the player has direct control over 'Henchmen'. Henchmen are stronger than conventional minions, obtainable only at certain stages throughout the game, and can be upgraded with two special moves after gaining experience. The 'World Domination screen'. White dots highlight 'Acts of Infamy' yet to be completed and the minions available are displayed at the bottom. The 'World Domination screen' comprises an interactive map of the world divided into regions to which the player is able to send minions from their lair to steal money or to commit 'Acts of Infamy'.
These Acts can be used to obtain loot to adorn the lair (increasing minion statuses), capture civilian hostages (to interrogate them), and to garner 'Notoriety'. Many Acts advance the ultimate goal of constructing the doomsday device.
Acts require variable amounts and types of minions, and each carries a degree of risk. Although, the player has no direct control over a mission, they can increase the chance of success by mixing minion classes and allocating greater numbers; the danger of committing Acts is compounded by the occasional appearance of Agents in certain regions, which the player can choose to hide their minions from. Some Acts of Infamy are references to historical events, such as the, while others are comical, such as a 'humanitarian mission' to destroy and rid the world of. The lair must be defended from the 'forces of justice': five agencies under whose control the world is split.
S.A.B.R.E controls, the and. P.A.T.R.I.O.T controls and the 'Pacific Allies'— and. S.M.A.S.H control (including the Middle East) and. H.A.M.M.E.R controls, and the. A.N.V.I.L controls and.
Any Act of Infamy carried out within a region, and even the mere presence of minions (but especially if they are siphoning money back to the lair) will increase the level of notice, or 'Heat', of the alliance that controls it, triggering a proportionate response: those alliances with the highest levels of heat will send their most skilled forces. Agents, appearing singularly or in groups, are divided according to their roles: Investigators, who will try to uncover evidence of illegal operations, thus increasing 'Heat'; Saboteurs, whose goal is to destroy parts of the base; Thieves, who will attempt to steal back stolen items and cash; and Soldiers, who will assault minions, Henchmen and the Evil Genius him/herself. As the player acquires 'Notoriety', they will attract the attention of 'Super Agents', one from each of the five alliances; these agents combine two of the aforementioned roles, require special objectives to be met to permanently defeat, and are able to kill Henchmen over time by depleting their pool of lives. Reception Reception Aggregate scores Aggregator Score 78% 75% Review scores Publication Score B- 8.4/10 7/10 7.3/10 4/5 7.8/10 Evil Genius has an average review score of 78% and 75% out of a possible 100, according to the review aggregators and respectively, which indicates 'generally favourable reviews.'
Most critics praised the game for its humour and unique take on the god-game genre, but also criticised it for its frustrating micromanagement and annoying bugs. Gave the game a 7.3 out of 10, stating that 'while Evil Genius' dry, campy humor is often amusing from the start, it takes quite a bit of time and effort to pull off acts of infamy and establish your notoriety among global powers' and states 'Evil Genius is hampered by some frustratingly haphazard pacing as well as issues with the artificial intelligence of your minions.' Gave Evil Genius a 7.8 out of 10, the reviewer stating that 'Evil Genius hearkens back to the glorious Bullfrog creation Dungeon Keeper. Not only did it have us building a base underground (far, far underground), but also put us in the shoes of a sadistic dungeon master with imps, demons, and horned reapers to 'control.' There are quite a few differences in the two titles, but the influence is certainly there' but went on to say that 'Had there been more interactivity with during acts of infamy on the World Domination Map, less micromanagement for taking care of enemies, more information passing between the map and the base screens, and more useful information about why things happened the way they did, Evil Genius really could have been genius. But in a good way.' Gave Evil Genius a 7 out of 10, commenting that 'even as we sit here picking over the carcass, we're not actually all that angry about the things that are wrong with the game.
They're bad on paper, but they didn't interfere hugely with our having fun - a sure sign that that Evil Genius overcomes its flaws and ultimately satisfies.' Evil Genius ' music score, composed by, received a nomination for Best Original Music in 2004.
Hannigan has spoken of how the work he did for the game stands out amongst his oeuvre, on account of its 'uniqueness'. Sequel Financial reports at the end of 2004 revealed Elixir Studios had begun work on a sequel to Evil Genius. However, the studio's closure in 2005 led to the project's cancellation. While Rebellion purchased the intellectual property rights to Elixir's titles, the franchise remained dormant for several years aside from being re-released on digital platforms before the sudden 2010 release of the Evil Genius: WMD, which took the IP and applied it to the style of apps popular at the time. This app was later shut down in favor of Evil Genius Online, another Facebook app, due to the intensely negative reception of WMD. Announced and entering open beta in 2013, Evil Genius Online was released as a and later released on and. The full version launched in early 2015.
Similar to the original, Evil Genius Online maintained the idea of attaining power and building elaborate lairs and hiring minions, progressing using timed missions that could be sped up or bypassed with. Evil Genius Online shut down on February 6, 2017. In a blog post on their website, addressed rumours about a 'sequel' that had been circulating via.
Specifically, the post said that this was not in reference to Evil Genius Online, but instead concerned a fully featured PC follow-up: We’ve always wanted to make a fully-featured PC follow-up. We’ve taken concepts for an Evil Genius sequel to publishers before but we weren’t able to secure the funding we needed.
However since then, we’ve looked into alternative ways to get this game funded and created. We are going to make this happen. And it’s going to be soon. In July 2017, Rebellion announced that has been developing Evil Genius 2 since Q2 2017, but currently have no planned release date as they bring the game up to their internal Asura game engine. See also. References Citations.
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Developed by Elixir Studios in 2004, Evil Genius is best described as. You are the eponymous evil genius, and it is your job to construct, recruit, steal priceless treasures, hold the world for ransom, and fight off pesky super agents. Also, you need to keep your minions well-trained and happy, because the looting and ransoming won't take care of itself. Notable for a quirky sense of humor mixed with classically over-the-top megalomanical villainy.
Everything has a '60s vibe to it, and the forces of justice are just as stereotypical as your own minions. There's also a great deal of freedom and a wide range of methods you can use to complete your overarching goal. Want to run a fortress island with massive numbers of armed guards, machinegun emplacements, and horrifying freaks of nature, all emphasizing Perfectly reasonable. Want a deadly secluded island filled with martial arts disciples?
Want to beguile your enemies with squads of elite deceptive social minions who will leave their heads spinning and questioning their loyalty? That's also perfectly viable. Want to set a thousand deadly traps and twisty, mystifying corridors that will leave the forces of justice lost, confused, and very very dead? Nothing's stopping you. You're allowed to either discard the with prejudice or wrap both hands around it and run straight for the end zone. A proper sequel was announced in July of 2017, headed by Rebellion.
This game provides examples of the following tropes:.: The reason Maximilian is so screwed up.:. If you die, your genius is rolled into a morgue. Where you see that they're, whose face lifts to reveal a timer that quickly reaches 0. Colonel Blackheart's pet monkey, Pendragon, carries TNT for this purpose.: When mousing over Shen Yu, he is described as 'a mysteriously mystical maniacal man.' .: Henchmen have this, as a second that recovers all their stats rapidly.: Dirk Masters provides the over-the-top style gunplay, while Red Ivan provides the physical presence and exaggerated accent of (despite being Russian instead of Austrian.).: Mariana Mamba's special power is to woo your minions away from your service.: While had put this in the 60s, the and several historical inaccuracies very much puts the game into this.
One point of contention, for example, was the existence of (under S.A.B.R.E.) about two decades after it had been in real life.: You can only have up to 100 minions. Thankfully, this can be changed fairly easily by editing data files. This is often the only reason that your own minions can take him down in close-combat; Jet can and will spend valuable time doing multiple taunts in a row, as opposed to kicking your guards' faces in.: You can't directly control the individual minions, instead only giving general orders and setting up security systems to alert them to intruders. This leads to Feel free to shout at the ceiling.
You can use this to your advantage; there's a 'bug' that allows you to stop a minion from leaving due to Loyalty zeroing: if you tag them for capture, then repeatedly zoom in to view their stat panel, they stop to salute you every time, giving your minions or henchmen time to catch up. Cue via 'Loyalty Restoration'. Only valets can use fire extinguishers. No one else can, including higher level social units (who apparently forget how). On top of that, valets have a distressing tendency to run right into the path of veteran kill teams, trying to pick up all the money and items dropped by your construction workers to fight off said kill teams. Which leads to them all being dead by the time the veterans start setting your base on fire blowing things up. And valets aren't very smart in extinguishing fires themselves.
If a fire breaks out, the closest valet will not simply grab the nearest extinguisher and put it out. Instead, seemingly random valets all over your base will grab the extinguishers nearest them, and run to the fire, no matter how far it may be. Then, when they get there, they will put out one burning object (in a room after an explosion there can be over half a dozen objects on fire) and walk, with the extinguisher, past the other fires and put the extinguisher back. Same with technicians when they earn their science degree.
Apparently, they forget basic mechanics and won't repair your stuff anymore. Cue generators blowing up. This one may be intentional: Henchmen have the clearance to open level 3 and 4 doors just like the Evil Genius, but their AI believes they don't, so they'll only actually go through one if the player specifically orders them to.
This can be useful or annoying, depending on what you put high-security doors on in the first place. Blackheart lost his left leg to a Bengal Tiger, which he killed with his bare hands. It's rumored that he cooked the tiger along with what was left of his severed leg into a stew and ate it, in order to honor the beast who injured him so thoroughly.: Red Ivan, who can be as much a danger to your base and your minions as to the forces of justice due to his preferred weapon being a bazooka.
If you absolutely must use Ivan in game, it's best to keep him confined to a Topside Shack until he's needed. He can be quite useful in the right situations, but he needs to be kept on a tight leash and carefully micromanaged, which might push him into territory.: More than half your henchmen, especially, Red Ivan, and The Matron.: Your goal, of course. If you beat the game, you're treated to a scene of your evil genius taking leadership of the Forces of Justice, with its former leaders bowing down to him as banners of the evil empire are unfurled.: Both of the male Evil Geniuses.: The Mercenary minions carry immense machineguns. Agent carries. And then Ivan turns it and has a Most players refuse to use him since he's a bit trigger happy and will set most of your base on fire. Others, usually Dirk's. Those that insist on using him unmodded take advantage of the fact that henchmen won't pass through level 3 or 4 doors unless specifically ordered to, and lock him in a topside shack until they need him.
Sentry turrets are also very large and very shooty.: All manner of horrible stuff can happen to people in this game. They can be shot at, stabbed and blown up. Despite all of this, however, you'll see nary a drop of blood around.: The second objective in the game is to summon the crime lords of the world to a presentation where you present your evil plan, then zap the one that gave you lip with a shrink ray hidden in a model volcano.: You can get up to two (or Bodyguard Hunks if you play as Alexis).: When a minion needs to transport cash for some reason, it takes this form.: Several henchmen can do this. For example, Lord Kane's presence can cause people to cower in fear or flee in panic, while Eli Barracuda plays a boombox with hypnotic suggestion that causes people around him to uncontrollably break out into dance. He's a blatant rip off named after and.: in one of the menus, scuba diver models do a 'synchronized swimming' variant.: The entire cast in one form or another.: The cloning pod works by turning a into a copy of you.: The doppelgangers sent out to fool the specialists.: Your minions.
Construction workers wear yellow, social minions wear red (except for the Spindoctor), military minions wear orange and science minions wear white. The territories controlled by the Forces of Justice are also color coded: P.A.T.R.I.O.T.' S territories are blue, S.A.B.R.E.' S are green, H.A.M.M.E.R.' S are red, S.M.A.S.H.'
S are yellow, and A.N.V.I.L.' S are orange.: By the boatload. The different torture devices are just asking for it.
Hell, why are you playing this game if not for that?. The Super Agents cannot be killed through any amount of minions, traps, gunfire, or interrogation. Only specific methods that don't become available until the second half can deal with them. Mariana Mamba is made fat via reverse liposuction, and thus rendering her main weapon null. Jet Chan is challenged to a rigged one-on-one karate battle after interrogating his old master. In the ensuing match he is utterly humiliated, and he leaves in shame and never returns.
Katerina Frostonova is forced to watch you beat up and chop up the only object she ever showed any affection for, her teddy bear. The resulting BSOD leaves her unable to operate any more. Dirk Masters is dipped in your bio-tanks.
The chemicals react with the numerous illegal steroids in his body, morphing him into a unique Freak under your command. John Steele cannot be defeated during the game, but if you have him locked in your jail cell when you press the button to launch the rocket and thus win the game, the ending cinematic will show him strapped to the rocket and launched into space with it.: Why does your 's entraces have slowly-opening doors? Why do your minions ignore unless you've specifically told them to do something about them? Because you're the. If you weren't Contractually Genre Blind, more than half of the gameplay would have to be changed.: Most of the ways you torture prisoners:. The Interrogation Chair has you spin around on the chair, crash cymbals on their head and force them to watch a do 's dance moves.
The Centrifuge and Mess Hall Mixer put emphasis on the spinning part. The Bookcases are that rapidly slam the unfortunate agent. The Greenhouse and Impact Stress Analyzer subject them to. The Laser and Long Range Shooting Stall essentially have the agent facing a firing squad. The Brianiac Machine blinds them with. The Environment Chamber and Brain Washer have the agent (their brain in the case of the latter) tossed around like a ragdoll. The AI Supercomper alternates between and.: The Matron can bestow a buff upon your other henchmen that lets them regenerate their special abilities quickly.: Opportunity: You've located Excalibur.
Problem: Your minions aren't worthy to. Solution: Steal the stone too.: Part of the fun in the game is designing a convoluted, Goldbergesque series of them. Ironically, the most valuable traps are non-lethal. Lethal traps generate too much heat, and non-lethal traps can be made to sweep up enemies in endless loops of money-making combos.: You lose automatically if your Evil Genius is killed.: Sentry turrets have very narrow firing arcs, and can only be placed on a grid facing one of four directions. This provides diagonal blindspots from which agents can attack any tightly grouped cluster of them.
Thus, some staggering in their positions is needed so that they can cover each other.: Eli Barracuda killed the Mayor of New York because the Mayor accidently spilled coffee over his suit.: The penultimate objective is to hijack the airwaves with broadcast towers and deliver your ultimatum to the world. You get laughed off, necessitating use the to show you mean business.: Three to choose from for the endgame.: Whichever Henchman the player favours most.
Each Evil Genius starts with their own. Industrialist Maximilian has the young Samurai Jubei. Narcissistic Socialite Alexis has New York gangster Eli Barracuda. Chinese Mastermind Shen Yu has the sinister Lord Kane, the man (accidentally) responsible for sinking the Titanic, amongst other things.: Freaks do a lot of damage and can take a lot of punishment before going down, but have one of the lowest maximum smarts statistics in the game. The value is so low in fact, that they will constantly be triggering the player's own traps when they pass by the trigger mechanism, even if their smarts are at full value.
Some players take full advantage of this by installing a, which takes advantage of a Freak wandering around a sealed-off section of the base to trigger traps remotely.: Late in the game, you capture diplomats from each Force of Justice and replace them with your own. Ultimately, this makes the Forces of Justice fight each other when they see each other.: The Matron's morning star.
'Time for their medicine!' .: Although the minion's sprites are mostly all white, their names show a wide variety of origins. The Henchmen are a straighter example.:. Red Ivan was exiled to a gulag because his masters in the Soviet government were disgusted by his sadistic tendencies. Even the abhors country music, which is why you can blow up Nashville.
Your scientists grudgingly admit that you're doing the world a favour, but they really need somewhere to test their new toy on, and it has to be somewhere big. So they might as well kill two birds with one stone.: The second island has native monkeys ambling around, and Col. Blackheart, bonus henchman, can sic his pet monkey on enemies as a special ability. You can also get a trap that sics a mind-controlled monkey on foes, but a glitch prevents you from researching what you need to get this.: Red Ivan is this to Dirk Masters to the point where it's not even trying to be hidden, both are large action types whose ability is 'Spin around killing everything'.: Gloating at prisoners increases your Notoriety. The avatar will also automatically go over to gloat at a Super Agent being tortured. However, in true adherence to the spirit of the trope, gloating at any captive gives a chance for them to break out immediately, Super Agents especially. John Steele will always escape if he is gloated.: No prizes for guessing.
And Lord Kane.: Enemy units who are armed with explosives aren't always so careful when using them. More than a few soldiers and saboteurs have, leading to hilarious moments where they are running around on fire. Jet Chan, Dirk Masters, and John Steele will also start planting explosives upon escaping one of your security cells, even if said cell is in a closed, confined space; serving themselves a steaming bowl of instant karma in the process.: Minions and foreign agents are both more likely to set off traps when their attention stat is low.
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Less skilled agents can also miss the bodies, henchemen and other incredibly conspicuous objects. Reducing enemy's attention with distractions and social minions is a big part of both keeping an operation quiet and ensuring traps are deadlier.
People who are distracted by a social minion will ignore anything happening around them while that's taking place, up to and including gunfights. Minions will also use doors without problem if they can get through them. Blissfully ignorant of any enemy agents (guns and swords optional) that are stood in front of said door trying to force it open. Cue a lot of snooping and/or explodey death.: While normally Henchmen can, Super Agents are capable of actually finally killing them. They get three ' after which they are gone for good.: Most players will wind up with one of these. It's almost always the same group, too: players usually go for getting all three 'main' henchmen, and The Matron just.
(But you have three to choose from, and.: Jubei/Lord Kane/Eli Barracuda.: Lord Kane (if not your Dragon)/The Butcher/Doctor Neurocide.: Jubei (if not your Dragon)/Red Ivan/Moko/Colonel Blackheart.: Eli Barracuda (if not your Dragon)/Montezuma/The Matron/The Great Mesmero.: The five super-agents.: John Steele.: Dirk Masters.: Katarina Frostanova.: Mariana Mamba.:. Half the Acts of Infamy you can perform in the game are done solely to be a dick to Agencies, such as ruining S.A.B.R.E's tea supply or ruining a S.M.A.S.H. Attempt at bringing down ivory smugglers by replacing the stash of ivory with thousands of squeaky toy elephants. There are few legitimate evil acts, such as you publicly executing The Orsons, a family of pop singers. Like destroying Nashville and country music, your evil genius considers that.: For a, Maximilian has.: The spy organizations who are trying to stop you do have fun with this. Incidentally, neither the game nor the manual will ever actually tell you what the acronyms actually mean.: Sadly, quite a few, more in the vein of Bugs That Will Make You Want To Break The Game CD variety:. Service minions escorting brainwashed Agents outside of the base have a habit of 'dropping off' the person right in front of the base.
Bonus points if the drop-off zone is located inside a Camouflaged Door, meaning the door will stay open constantly. Some people have reported that both two Super Agents' have caused crashes. The only fix? Don't look at them. Hope you weren't excited about acting seeing your enemies defeated. After a late-game mission, the Forces of Justice have been convinced that each other is the problem.
The game tells you that they'll, freeing you from both worrying about Good Guy retaliation levels. For every one time this actually happens, there's a handful of times when the massively-armed soldiers drop the and work together to deal with you. The second objective requires you to build a conference table to invite the crime bosses for a meeting. If the table is then destroyed, or even moved elsewhere, this objective will never show up as complete. All you can do is to reload a saved game (thankfully, it's also possible to fix this by.).: The possibilities are limited, but it can be done to a certain extent.
Ever wanted your own ninja henchman, for example? It can be done. Other mods include replacing every view screen with porn and changing the values of said viewscreens so they increase minions' loyalty stat.: In addition to attacking each other during global chaos, higher-ranking Soldiers and most Super Agents will attack minions on sight, even Social or Science minions who aren't aggressive. They'll also blow up your hotel, even killing tourists in the process.: Bonus henchman Col.: Your minions will happily let investigators, soldiers, and walk into your base unless you tag them to be eliminated.: You get virtually no in-game information on how to defeat John Steele.
You need to have him locked in a holding cell when you fire your super weapon in order to see his demise.: Off-screen example in which the greatest triumph of Super Agent was defeating an evil genius who built a long, narrow lair which ran the length of the Great Wall of China. Chan reportedly used the lair's layout to his advantage, forcing the genius' to fight him one-on-one rather than let them gang up on him.: Any investigator agent who has gathered a heat rating will fall under this, and the player is expected to react accordingly.: The Super Agents.: You defeat Jet Chan and Katerina Frostanova by causing them to experience these. Jet Chan by having a minion defeat him in a rigged martial arts duel, Frostanova by destroying her beloved teddy bear before her very eyes.: Almost everyone wears brightly colored uniforms. Your neon yellow workers and the orange military minions are particularly obvious. Enemy spies and agents also come in full dress uniforms, some of them more glaring than others.: A.N.V.I.L.' S Infiltrator agents are ninjas dressed in various bright colors.
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Minions will happily ignore them unless they are tagged.: You can build traps to electrocute heroes infiltrating your lair in this game.: Criminal mastermind Lord Kane is alleged to have had a hand in every major crime of the 20th century, from starting the fire that crashed to the. He does insist that the sinking of the Titanic was, as one of his minions apparently misheard his orders.: Your final objective is to guard the rocket against increasing waves of soldiers as you prepare for launch. Starting the a few missions earlier lessens the pressure.: Dirk Masters, the American super agent, a who dual-wields machine guns.: Henchman Montezuma.: The final upgrade to the minion's bed is a cryogenic suspension unit.: Bonus Henchman motivation for joining your evil empire.: Red Ivan, burly bazooka-wielding henchman.: The manual's description of the video game cabinet dismisses it a 'passing fad'.: Shen Yu replies with these when given commands in a bad Chinese accent, such as 'He who walk.: Done by virtually all characters, though the Henchmen and Evil Geniuses all have unique ones. The Henchmen even have an alternate animation that serves as by restoring all their stats at a rate of something like 40 points a second.: How Mariana Mamba wins over your henchmen.: A few minutes' instruction is all it takes to upgrade a mindless construction worker into a quantum physicist.: Jubei the Ronin henchman does this. 'Using FRAT of Brade.' When ordered to capture rather than kill, for instance.: Eli Barracuda's boombox causes this.: Two of 'em! The second even has a volcano for you to launch a rocket from.:.
The darkly hilarious act of infamy involves sending your soldiers out to club baby seals on live TV. Another highlight is neutering the world's most fertile male panda.: Several of the traps (and the flamethrower rack for mercenaries). Often a bad idea due to such weapons being indiscriminate.: All the endgame are satellite-mounted.: Most non-lethal traps and social minions all exist to keep enemy agents from remembering and reporting anything they see about your base. Super Agents can be mind-wiped and temporarily gotten rid of through what would normally be lethal torture too.: Half the acts of infamy in this game, really.
Hell, the entire game!.: Each of the Super Agents has their own theme music that will play when they arrive on the island.: The brainwasher, which sucks out and washes the brain of the person strapped to it with chemicals.: Everything — from beds to fire extinguisher cases to doors. Worse, when something explodes, it sets nearby items on fire, which will eventually explode themselves unless someone puts it out. Also leads to.: Henchman Eli Barricuda is never seen without his stylish immaculate white suit.: You are expected to pull off a few.: Billions of them, on all sides.: Mariana Mamba both fulfills this role and weaponizes it, seeing as she was explicitly found and spends her career running around in an orange bikini. She is defeated once she loses this status.: Maximilian.: Pretty much a N.E.O.: Lord Kane that he didn't mean for the Titanic to sink and that it was the slip of the tongue to an erstwhile minion of his. No one believes him.: Dead bodies turn into body bags that will eventually fade. Zigzagged in that body bags attract the attention of agents, and should one of them fade while 'out in the open', the world heat level will rise. That's what the freezers are for.
Additionally, the presence of bodybags lying about your base gives your minions second thoughts about being part of your, sapping their loyalty as long as they remain present. Putting them in the freezer keeps those bodies out of the minions' sight and minds. For what it's worth, your minions just fade away upon death.: The Evil Genius can't attack enemies. The bodyguards you pick up as your Notoriety rises can, but they're not particularly good at it.: One of the Acts of Infamy concerns toppling a pointless monarchy with 'Some spiked beverages, fluorescent duct tape, a set of inflatable farm animals and a crowd of paparazzi'.: The 'confusing pop-up' trap is meant to bewilder your enemies, sapping their Smarts. However, they also form a temporary impassable wall while they're up, allowing you to restrict the agents' movements so they don't accidentally dodge your other, deadlier traps.: There are some bugs that really, really should not have slipped through. Examples include the persian rug being a barrier instead of a tile and science-related henchmen actually making your schemes take longer. Many of these bugs can be fixed by a simple edit of text files, but if even that's too hard for you, you can try the automatic Unofficial Patch.: Some Acts of Infamy are heists of gigantic proportions, but you will only ever hear a short radio broadcast about them.: Sadly made impossible by certain mutually-exclusive Acts of Infamy, preventing you from filling the Region Completion bar of each area.
There is no reward nor indication of completion, though. You may only deploy a single out of a selection of three different ones. Since it takes quite some time to finish the project (and the game) once the choice is made, if you want to see all three endings your best option is to load a save-game made hours earlier and choose a different device.: While any agent will attack you if they get close enough, the Specialist agents are specifically sent to assassinate you.