my review
Graphics: way better looks than the predecessor Pandemic. Needs clickable cutscenes (possibly random, 5 per continent, vary depending on infecting airport, water, etc) click on continent to view cutscene for the day.
Style: as said before the gameplay is way too random it is too easy for points to be wasted and too hard for points to be effective. in this game the lethality should never go above 1 since people die way too quickly in the first place!!! the features of the virus were dumbed down since the last Pandemic game and this is condemned. I can no longer make my signature AIDS/Bubonic Plague cross-variant and I am an unhappy man.
Sound: IMO the music was better than the first but it still got annoying.
Violence: this is about the mass extinction of man, but during my gameplays too few got infected and died and it was not depicted.
Interactivity: the layout was very confusing at first and not as simple as the first. to be condemned especially because none of the new features seemed to add to gameplay.
Humor: a crappy game is no laughing matter. neither is a pandemic-themed game but i had a few chuckles in pandemic 1 when i infected ppl and killed no-one and turned ppl into aids/bubonic plague goo.
Overall: the only reason I am rating this a 2 is because WITH UPDATES AND UPGRADES in gameplay this game can be an 8, 9, or even 10!!!! the way the game is now it is unacceptable.
One suggestion is to add a parallel point system. an elite point system called Germ points. One can be gained a day, more depending on your "success". If you have no plans to change how regular points work then this would be ideal to make the game supremely better. 10 Germ points could be used to designate a random group (at the start it will be middle eastern terrorists or the russians *they suck*) to do a biological attack on themselves or an adjacent region. More groups will fall under your sway due to the virus spreading. 5 points could be for a biological SCUD or Katyusha rocket attack on an adjacent territory. 25 could be for a ICBM filled with the virus, infecting the whole targeted region! Also necessary is the sabotage of research centers and vaccine plants. 15-20 points depending on region. Of course, the thinking is that the groups would work for you to spread the virus and whatnot in exchange for immunity. Of course, groups could target each other in order to achieve their own survival! comical! Use of Germ Points is only limited by the imagination!
Another suggestion is to have a difficulty setting, from Easy to Hard or Nightmare (for the germs, lol)
right now the game sucks.