Wow...some people
I can't believe some of the reviews this is getting, if anyone actually looked between the two this one is much better, or so theres no more specific infectivity, lethiality and such trates to pick, but if you played the first one it was the same, except when you picked one it upped the number for you, in this one you basically do the same except less details.
Also NO ONE can say he didn't take the advise of the first ones reviews I mean god 50+ of them are about the bad mapping of the world. Also this one is actually tricky, I mean come on before there wasn't a human race trying to make a cure, it was kill everyone in 200 days, which if you played the first one took forever because even if you killed them all you had to wait the left over 50-150 days which were a pain in the ass.
Also this one is a lot less random than the old one, your speading the disease not some gay randomizer for points...some of you people write about how this one has no strategy...the first had no strategy, level the virus....end turn...end turn...end turn...level virus...end turn...At least this one gives more player control over the population, of course it is still easy if you've played it more than once...but not the point...I think this is a vast improvement on the first.