Evolution: The Video Game Review
After an effective Kickstarter, Evolution has made its way from box to screen for PC players to enjoy -- and it looks great. It seems just like a board game with lovely and helpful tutorials that will assist you get started and find out all the rules. I'm an avid board game player myself, so I was eager to have the chance to play with Evolution and elongate those board game muscles.
In Evolution, your main goal is to breed and evolve new species. Keeping them fed is critical to making sure they stay alive, and that means hungry the opposing species. In your turn your objective is to increase your population, provide your species special abilities using your cards, or create a whole new species. You can also add food to the watering hole that both players' creatures will eat from. Your goal is to be certain that there's enough food for all of your animals, and not enough food for the competitor's creatures.
Each round, regardless of what round is it, you're likely to have to make some fairly tough decisions on which to use your cards to get. You may have discovered that your enemy has a few more species than you and they have got better skills, so you choose to create a new species. Then, suddenly, you do not have enough food to your ever-hungry troupe along with your opponent continues to thrive. You have to walk a fine line in deciding when to keep your creatures alive, when to forfeit, and when to grow. It's a stressful but entirely ingenious set of principles.
A round of Evolution continues as follows: first, each participant will pick a card that will add food to the watering hole in the centre of the board. Each population can only eat once, depending upon the species (some could eat more). You won't have any clue how much food that your competitor is putting from the watering hole so this is where you are going to need to strategise (and hope for just a bit of luck). As you proceed through the game you'll unlock traits which can be given to a herbivores (the first species you begin as) and a few traits can even unlock carnivores. Carnivores do not eat from the watering hole but consume different species instead.
At the end of each round, every one of the things have been added up and put into your coin bag. Following the final round, the characteristics of each of your species, as well as the number of people points, are added up and the player with the maximum score wins.
The way that Evolution's board is set up is quite simple to understand so gamers will probably have no problem picking up on what is happening. Your opponent's creatures are on one side of the board while yours are on the other, with the watering gap between you. Handily, when you're choosing a card to utilize you're in a position to preview exactly what transfer you're going to be doing before you commit, which makes it easy to not make any errors. It is an extremely helpful little feature, especially when you're still learning the ropes.
Evolution's art design is among the best sections of the game. The game board feels alive even though you're working with only pictures. Your cards create noises and move around as you use them. This produces a truly immersive universe -- which is impressive considering you are simply playing with a digital version of a board sport. Even its menu makes you feel as though you've just opened the publication of a real explorer.
Evolution: The Video Game is an excellent version of a board game of the identical name. There are different game modes to keep you amused in addition to online gameplay for when you're feeling confident enough to take on additional players. The board is superbly designed with entertaining animations and sounds in addition to music. Dozens of unique cards and traits are accessible, therefore the gameplay never gets stale -- it is only a relaxing and entertaining way to spend a few hours. Catch Evolution if you love board games and are on the lookout for a new fantastic challenge.
