1. Evil Genius 2 Characters

Retro Requisition would like to draw your attention to a classic video game of old that we shall be formally requisitioning to be reborn, revisited, rebooted, or remastered.

Developed by Elixir Studios in 2004, Evil Genius is a 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. It is set to release in 2020.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. Boom!. 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.: Jet Chan. 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.: Col.

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.: Jet Chan.

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.: You!.: 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.

Evil Genius 2 Characters

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 a 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.