The sims is a real life simulator, the tycoons are manager simulators and this is a conquer the world simulator
You start the game by selecting one of the 3 evil geniuses
- Maxamilion who is a short version of doctor Evil from Austin powers
- Alexis who is basically a rich woman who wants the world
- Shen Yu who is a chines super evil
After you select who u want to play as the game begins, you start on a desert Island with a sum of cash, the main thing to do is build a underground base, this includes several things like a Barracks, a lab and a break room for you minions.
The base building part of the game isn't that bad, the only thing is that the corridors cant be demolished so they can get in your way if you don't build them right.
your minions are maintained in a different way to command and conquer or Rise Of nations, instead of selecting the barracks and seconds later a minion appears, you start off with workers which then get taught by other minion classes the basics of being a minion, with the only control over them to select how many you want. you can not directly control minions so your most likely wondering "how do you make them kill?"
the way you do this is by tagging enemies (or friendlies) with a tag saying to kill, weaken or capture them, the only people you have direct control over is your evil genius and Henchmen (basically the equivilent of heroes in rise of legends). Henchmen have 3 powers, gather minions meaning any minion in a area around the henchmen will follow him where he/ she goes, the other 2 powers depend on the henchmen that you have.
the graphics are great in the fact that there is an great amount of detail in the enviroment and objects, minions could have a bit more detail but other than that the graphics are second to none.
all in all its worth a look