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Here’s a game where it isn’t the graphics that draw you in, it’s not the action based game play, you’re not looting a bunch or blasting other players online with gear you spent 3 long months grinding for. Plague Inc: Evolved isn’t an open world game and you don’t particularly feel a sense of freedom within its rigid guidelines. You start as a basic organism with the goal of infecting every human on the planet and evolving into a deadly epidemic that will eventually wipe out humankind before a cure can be found. Plague Inc: Evolved is a meticulous and strategic gem the likes of which we’ve seen in Uplink where you play as a rookie hacker working your way up the ladder of the most wanted listed, upgrading hardware, software and collecting gateways to ward off the feds from your trail. “Sooo… about that honeymoon to China. Let’s not.”[divider type=”space_thin”]Plague Inc: Evolved manages to muster much of the same adrenaline with a static UX that contain a range of options in which you can control and evolve your plague to better suit your current situation. The replay value on this game is off the charts, you start the game trying to infect and kill every human in the world as bacteria, if you’re successful you move on to working as a virus which is a drastic change as viruses have a much higher chance of spontaneously mutating by itself. Mutation throws a huge monkey wrench into your plans during gameplay as sometimes you need to simply focus on evolving your plague’s infect…
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