Reviews for Pandemic: EoM

[Blowsthenight]

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.

[lee-ember]

Pandemic: PoS

This is nowhere near as good as the original. I don't know what inspired the original Pandemic people to let you do this, but they made a huge mistake in letting you make this game. It just doesn't work. I'm not complaining that the game is too hard. Ninja Gaiden Black is hard. This game is like the Nintendo Power Glove. Having to spend 20 turns in a row, doing nothing but trying to infect the airport, is NOT FUN. Giving points for no reason at all is too unlike the first game, where you had to kill shit to earn points. Here, I can just play with myself and rack up numbers. Whoo. All the nice little options of the first game to change up your virus are gone. I don't know what my virus does to kill people, I just have a lethality number. I liked knowing that my virus would cause organ failure. Any improvement over 2 is a pain in the ass, and while I'm sitting around waiting for points to build up so I can stand a .006% chance of doing anything at all, the humans are swiftly ensuring my global demise. I had no fun whatsoever while playing this sad mockery of Pandemic. It reminded me of an arcade machine with no money in it. You can push buttons all you want to, but you quickly realize that you're not going to get anywhere at all.

[irishlad7]

not as good

the first one was allot better do to the amout of options you had with the upgradeing of the virus. this one u did make harder which is great because the first one was easy...2 easy. i think u should add a difficulty controle and keep the different type of options like the first one for up greadeing this virus. this game was a small let down to be honest but i look forward to ur next submission,

[GhostEmperor]

How did this make it onto front page?

The first game was genius. This one just sucks. All of the fun of evolving the virus and not having to micromanage every attempt at infecting was cool. Now it's just plain boring. The messages on the side suck, the layout is worse, and there is no feel for a personalized virus. The only thing that I liked was the sound, which felt a bit more active. If the gameplay had matched the improvement of the sound, it would have been a nice game. Unfortunately, it falls short of just about every expectation I had. 2/10, and only that high because of the music.

[nathanexplosion56]

WTF!!!!!!!!!

It is imposible, by the time I built up its drug resistances and spread it to other countries 4 countries had the immunity.

And there was no way to keep up with everything, like the vaccine, spreading the disease, and upgrading the disease.

Overall I say this was a disappointment.