Plague Inc: The Breakdown

Well I would have played an actual game, but I'm too busy getting sucked into Destiny, so I'm doing another app review/ breakdown! I would also just like to point out that even though I didn't technically review Destiny in my last post, It has been a week and I'm still playing the game so that has to be an indicator of how much I like that game.

As this is another app with no real set story or plot, I'm going to make one up, so if you wanted a serious review, skip this section.

SPOILERS?

The world has become corrupt, and political powers now control all of humanity, the world doesn't yet know this and the everyday people have become brainwashed mindless slaves, all obeying their government and it's leaders. You are a mad scientist who wants to save humanity, BY DESTROYING IT! So you took control over a secret lab in an undisclosed location and hijacked some satellites to give you an aerial view of the earth. You experiment and manage to create a base virus that you inject into a random person in a country of your choosing, you can now take control of the virus and modify it to make it a super plague that you will use to free mankind of it's freedom... and life. Good luck in destroying the world.

The whole strategy of the game is to infect everyone on earth and kill them off, using different viruses and combinations of symptoms to create a plague that kills humanity before they can cure it. New player advice would be to play on Easy and use the base bacteria to learn the symptoms and abilities and what kinds of combinations and abilities you need to evolve to combat humanities attempts to stop you. (for example a random event is a love fest, so if you evolve nausea, which gives a slight chance of infection while kissing, it boosts infection) The best thing to keep in mind is that the DNA points don't expire, so save up a good amount in case something unexpected happens so you can react properly. And as the game tells you,  this is a highly researched simulator, meaning if you're trying a maneuver that would not pan out in real life, then in the game it wouldn't work either, so be prepared for what each country's actual government would do to combat whatever disease you made.

The game came out on iOS and Android, and there are some web versions as well  as a PC variant called Plague Inc: Evolved, but I only managed to play the normal version on iOS. The game is 99 cents and it is well worth the money. You can unlock several disease types, as well as special diseases like a zombie disease, a brain parasite, and the new Planet of the Apes virus. There is also special scenarios like "Black Death" or "Humans have robotic organs" that recreate a specific challenge you have to beat. As far as I know you have to pay for these, but everything else, including the normal disease types and some disease variants, you can unlock. i would highly recommend buying this game and if you ain't got time for unlocking the diseases, then buying them is a good option (not that I endorse DLC) and it goes to the dev, who is a cool guy. The game does just about everything right and that makes it one of the best games on the App Store.