Evolva
released on Jun 01, 2000
A game in which mankind sends its bio-engineered troops to stop a parasite race from destroying the universe. Evolva combines the excitement of a fast paced shoot-em-up with the tactical challenge of commanding a squad. Fight against the alien parasites and save the planet. This is survival of the fittest!Appealing scenery with an other-worldly feelingAn unusual character development system based on mutationsUse your GenoHunters' unique abilities to your advantage
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Evolva is a great game that I think has aged very well, and that is thanks to the fact that it knows its limitations. One of the big things that makes me say this is the way you can order each Genohunter around, each command is basic but it gives away the path to try different strategies depending on how you want to position them.
The second thing is that the A.I is not perfect, but the developers took this into consideration. The game has mini screens that show what each Genohunter sees in real time, and whenever the A.I is having troubles this screen will flash repeatedly, signaling to the player that they need a bit of help to move around, this helps a lot in some levels since at time your team will have to separate.
The combat is super simple and I'll admit a bit tedious, but is fun most of the time, and the different enemies pose a good challenge.
The coolest mechanic is of course the evolution of the Genohunters, it happens in real time and you have to take in account the cost/benefit of each one, but most of the time is good in the end and looking at your characters slowly change in appearence as the game progresses is, again, cool.
And lastly one of my favorite parts is the ambientation, the world and creatures feel truly alien and weird, that added to the fact that you can very much tell the "early 2000's aesthetic" in the modeling and texture, top that is some amazing music that immediately tells you taht you are in a hostile planet, and this game just sells itself to me that easy.
The second thing is that the A.I is not perfect, but the developers took this into consideration. The game has mini screens that show what each Genohunter sees in real time, and whenever the A.I is having troubles this screen will flash repeatedly, signaling to the player that they need a bit of help to move around, this helps a lot in some levels since at time your team will have to separate.
The combat is super simple and I'll admit a bit tedious, but is fun most of the time, and the different enemies pose a good challenge.
The coolest mechanic is of course the evolution of the Genohunters, it happens in real time and you have to take in account the cost/benefit of each one, but most of the time is good in the end and looking at your characters slowly change in appearence as the game progresses is, again, cool.
And lastly one of my favorite parts is the ambientation, the world and creatures feel truly alien and weird, that added to the fact that you can very much tell the "early 2000's aesthetic" in the modeling and texture, top that is some amazing music that immediately tells you taht you are in a hostile planet, and this game just sells itself to me that easy.