Rebellion has announced that it is now officially working on Evil Genius 2. Evil Genius 2 won’t be a remaster or remake. Instead, it will be a fully-fledged sequel and it won’t be free-to-play. Moreover, the game will be powered by Rebellion’s Asura Engine.
Since Evil Genius 2 will be the first real-time strategy game built in its in-house engine Asura, Rebellion needs a little bit of extra work under the hood before it expands the team, nails down gameplay design and goes into full production.
Rebellion also explained why it took it so long to develop a sequel to Evil Genius:
“Firstly, we were in the middle of a big transition into becoming our own publisher and we needed to put resources into the projects that became Zombie Army Trilogy, Battlezone on PSVR and Sniper Elite 3 & 4.
Secondly, we decided crowd-funding wasn’t the way we wanted to go. After the growing success of the Sniper Elite series and other Rebellion games IP, we started to feel it wasn’t fair to ask fans to fund a new game if we didn’t need them to! With some big projects now out the door and being enjoyed by gamers worldwide, we feel like now is the time to return to the world of Evil Genius.
So yes, it’s taken us some time to get to this point. But today we are in a position where we can happily say Evil Genius 2 is an actual thing we’re actually coding, designing and er… arting, right now!”
Rebellion currently focuses on a PC version for Evil Genius 2, though it may also release it on other platforms.
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Always like these guys.
Same, their new games look good especially Strange Brigade.
i wish they made rogue trooper 2 and a new avp or judge dredd.
Rogue Trooper is getting a remake, so we might see a sequel if that does well.
Seems like a real genuine down to earth kinda guy who seems to be in it for the love the the medium 🙂
“It will be a fully-fledged sequel and it won’t be free-to-play”
Hell Yeah, I loved the Original Evil Genius
13 YEARS, MAN !!!!
MY god !!! This is my childhood !!! I waited so long !!!)))) I cannot believe it !!!) This is beautiful news !
is there a market for this type of games?i personally hate strategy genre and i cannot stand it for a moment but i think majority of people are like me
To be fair the strategy genre has been done to death on pc. But considering how age of mythology got a expansion last year, id say yeah there is a market for it.
i expected you to be mad, sounds like strategy is not your thing, good thing to know you’re more of a console pleb than anyone else here
btw, my top 10 most played games are all strategy
I tried playing the first game, the entire game took place in a bunker. So slow and borring.
I know these guys produce the Rogue Trooper game but I wonder if they own the gaming rights to all the 2000AD comics’ characters?