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Was auch immer Leute über dieses Spiel sagen mögen: Es ist und bleibt eines meiner absoluten Favoriten. Selten hat mich ein Spiel derart emotional aufgewühlt und mitgenommen wie dieses. Natürlich muss man sich darauf einlassen. Zugegebenermaßen hat die letzte Episode diverse Schwächen, aber alleine die "Whatthe♥♥♥♥"-Momente in den vorherigen Episoden machen das meiner Meinung nach einfach wieder gut. Absolut zu empfehlen!

[For the lazy ones: Skip the text for pros and cons.]

Well, this game really looked interesting to me so I bought it. Unfortunately it's not quite as good as it looks. Why? Let's see.

You are thrown onto that map with a chosen ammount of money and you buy stuff to produce energy and earn money for you. Nice start.

Some of the buildings affect the pollution of the map, like gas plants or oil refineries and some don't, like solar panels. But clean energy takes forever to produce money. Does it even produce money? I get a little "3" on my oil drills to tell my something happens, but my clean energy just keeps looking fine... however.

If you earned too much pollution accidents start to happen, like lightning, meteors or a giant worm randomly popping out of the ground destroying everything in range. When any of these desasters destroy your building the pollution stops and... yes, that's it. You rebuild it, pollution starts again, and hello Mr. Worm!

You are able to clean the pollution by planting trees, but I was not able to see any difference so far. So I'm not sure how or whether these trees affect the pollution...

So in fact you could just build a lot of solar panels and hope you reach the goal. Oh, "what's the goal?" you might ask. Well, there's a little "?" in the top left corner to tell you: "To win you must make 1.000.000 Dollars". Oh my. And all that with a solar plant that... I don't know, does it work at all!?

Besides that the interface is minimalistic. Building menu, money and that nice little "?" top left. It would be great at least to know how much pollution my buildings produce just to plan how many trees I need to plant. But nope.

Next thing very annoying is the lacking possibility of erasing the enviroment. There are trees everywhere on the map, mostly in positions that block nice building grounds. And you have a wonderfull bulldozer-tool. But guess what? You cannot erase trees you did not plant by yourself. That's somehow nature-friendly, but come on... Don't cut my choices where I want my trees! At least they got different colors for map-trees and self-made-trees. Makes it easier to remember which ones to cut down...

What else? Graphics itself are really nice, I like this retro-Pokémon-look. On the other hand the music sucks. It's like a cat walking across a keyboard. With a lot of reverberation. And a bit of rhythm. Annoying to me. Well, at least you can turn the volume down from the options. That's one of three things you can do there. Sound and music volume and fullscreen-toggle. Wish there were at least some more graphics options. Or the scroll speed toggle. It's sooooo slow, jesus!

The last thing is the lack of progress in the game. Yes, you can unlock new buildings, but the world itself doesn't change (except when you have problems with leaking oil... :s ). Also it would be great if you could upgrade your buildings with better filters to produce less pollution, but that simply isn't possible. In fact you can't do much more than build things. This game is called EVOPOLLUTION, but all I get is POLLUTION, where's the EVO?

Guess that's it so far.

Pro:
- great idea
- many building possibilities
- making money. Who doesn't like making money?
- cute worm-monster
- nice retro graphics

Cons:
- repetitive
- hard on every setting
- no feedback on what you do (how does that tree affect my world?)
- no instructions
- always the same goal (reach 1.000.000 Dollars)
- cannot bulldoze any map enviroment (like trees, seriously?)
- annoying music
- no growth (besides the new buildings you unlock)
- would be somehow catchy, if it wasn't that hard ("Yai, I build a gas plant! ... Oh, the worm destroyed it..." YOU JUST CAN'T STOP THAT THING!)
- lack of options (sound and music volume and full screen on/off)
- incredibly slow scrolling

Conclusion:
I gave it a chance and it just didn't convince me. All in all it's a nice idea, but not much more than that. This game needs a lot more work to make it an enjoyable game you would play and also re-play. So far it's mostly frustrating. But maybe we get an update, that would be great!

Until now it's a no, I do not recommend that.

Okay, guess what? I thought, I might give this game a try. I really enjoy simulation games, but this one is crap. It's really crap. Gameplay itself is not that crappy, but the engine is totally messed up.

- I got two gates operating with one plane each. The empty bus at plane 1 could simply unload plane 2. But it has to return to its parking lot first, otherwise plane 1 can not lift of. That itself would not be a great problem if all of the vehicles weren't THAT incredibly slow. So I drive across the airport for like an eternity to park my bus, just to make sure my plane 1 can start, and THEN drive back again to plane 2, that stands RIGHT BESIDES PLANE 1. Sigh...

- Last part before starting a plane is to pull it from terminal to starting lane. So that's a great idea. Unfortunately the puller-car doesn't pull the plane at all. I parked it right where the game told me to, then drove of to the destination point... and the plane remained, where it was. Well... I tried, what I could do about that. And I ended up with pushing the plane all the way across the airport. Yet it has not arrived in its destination, but my car got stuck under the engine. Sigh...

- You can buy employees to operate the vehicles. One at a time, three speeds each. I was happy to see the first vehicle operate by itself. It started its mission, drove off to the plane... and kept on driving... and driving... and driving... DAMMIT, these cars are SO DAMN SLOW! It might get faster, the better you upgrade them. But one step one it's another thing that takes forever. Did I mention, that the vehicles drive ultimately slow? Sigh...

- Oh, and I accidently parked the car you can use to explore the airport somewhere wrong. On a road. It was wrong because the AI wasn't able to navigate around it. When it met my car, they had a quick "bump" and then the AI stopped. It didn't even try to drive around. OR EVEN PUSH IT AWAY! It just stood there and looked unsatisfied. But didn't even notice me about that problem. Wonder what happened if I didn't look after that one... Sigh...

But well... in fact you can play it. If you get it started. And it doesn't stop while playing. And you don't get stuck. And there are no bugs that keep you from winning. And if you really enjoy to see planes leaping across the airport, right after you pushed them with your luggage-car. That was fun to see. But in fact it was a bit... disappointing, regarding to where the plane was intended to be. Sigh...

Wie GTA. Nur irgendwie... cool. Sehr zu empfehlen!

Ein Spiel mit Atmosphäre, Humor, Story und das ganze vor allem zu einem wirklich günstigen Preis. Sehr zu empfehlen, wenn man mal von modernen Shootern wieder zurück zu den Wurzeln möchte. Wunderbar zum Draufhauen!