Maximilian returns from the first game, a cartoonish spin on Ernst Stavro Blofeld from You Only Live Twice.
You select one of four Geniuses this time, with each playing on a different spy-genre archetype. The point is that you succeed where every other evil mastermind has failed.
You push your organization to steal and kill its way towards completing a huge doomsday device that will definitely…do something. In Evil Genius 2, you’ll sit in the plush, leather chair of an evil mastermind who has world domination goals. Despite that, this $39.99 sequel has a few rough edges carried forward from the classic entry, and new features that could use better implementation.
Evil Genius 2 works because the original title was such a great PC game, so more of the same is a good thing. In fact, it almost feels like a clone, but with improvements courtesy of updated technology and new features. Evil Genius 2: World Domination is very much the child of that first game. Evil Genius received decent reviews, but it didn't get a sequel to expand the concept-until now. The first Evil Genius, released to PC in 2004, was a curious mix of another PC gaming classic, Dungeon Keeper, and the James Bond spy films. It’s rare for a video game to receive a full sequel nearly two decades after its release.
