The cult PC classic came out in 2006, and in a video interview released yesterday, Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley announced that Evil Genius 2 is currently in the works.
Kingsley says that development only began last autumn but wanted to stress the upcoming game is not simply a remaster of the original. “Evil Genius 2 will be a fully-fledged sequel and it won’t be free-to-play,” Kingsley said. “Today we are in a position where we can happily say Evil Genius 2 is an actual thing we’re actually coding, designing and arting, right now!”
Rebellion, best known for the Sniper Elite series, acquired the rights to Evil Genius after developer Elixir Studios, the developer who made it, shut down. Rebellion tried to bring the series back a few years ago in the form of a free-to-play Facebook version that left a bad taste in many peoples’ mouths.
Previously, Rebellion had also considered tying to crowdfund a sequel, but decided with its growing size and the increasing financial success of the Sniper Elite games, that move too might have rubbed fans the wrong way. And so here we are.
For anyone who doesn’t remember, Evil Genius was a base-management game bathed in Bond villain camp and styled after the aesthetics of the atomic age. On each level you build a base and have your minions manage it and ultimately defend it from attacks by the good guys. The goal is to create a doomsday device that can be used to blackmail the planet. It sounded simple enough, but was easier said than done given the fact that you couldn’t directly control any of the minions and their AI and pathing often seemed to get in the way.
Given the recent revival in base-management games, with games such as Banished, Space Colony and RimWorld, it will be interesting to see what Rebellion does to update the Evil Genius formula and get around some of the flaws of the original.
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8 responses to “Rebellion Is Working On A Sequel To Evil Genius”
This could be interesting! Hopefully they’ll make it multiplayer! I remember trying multiplayer in the original many many years ago, and it had some great potential, but I think from memory it was prone to bugging out. Was a great game though! So glad it’s not just a remake!!!! \m/
Oh HELL yes!
Absolutely loved the first game. Cannot wait for this!
Has potential if done right….will be a smoking wreck if done wrong.
I’ll wait and see how it turns out.
A lot of things they can improve on in this sequel. Hopefully they figure out which stuff.
Excellent!!! I LOVE Evil Genius!
Loved the first one, but their petty attempts to control the word Rebellion means I am gonna give this one a skip
This has made my day.
As long as they fix Ai pathing (especially minions getting caught in their own traps), and we receive alerts from acts of infamy – it’ll be great.
Time to dust off my bodyguard Jubei… We have a whole world to conquer.
a sequel not a remaster… TICK
not free to play… TICK
i hope they keep the exploit of building little trap rooms around the perimeter of your base to attract agents so they dont find the real entrance haha