Flash game: Pandemic II

Then there are a bit different games. To eradicate your enemy is perfectly normal and a mark of high standards. But to eradicate all humanity, well, that is another sight.

The game is Pandemic II. - and you play a pathogen of your choice, that will evolve itself, infect and finally kill its victims. You can't win if someone stays alive, so let's go play cruel evolution.

In the beginning, you have to stick to traits that have a high infection rate, but low visibility. So buy those transmission traits and basic resistances, avoid anything with higher visibility. You need to spread everywhere. Once countries start to close your means of spreading (borders, airports, ports), the game, though it lasts for a long while, can be basically over. Eventually will the countries start to work on a vaccine - when it is finished, it won't be anymore possible to infect new victims.

The interface is functional, but it could be so much better... a little intuitiveness here, allowing a key to be pressed there, heck, showing percentages with some crucial numbers would make the situation much clearer. Oh well.

The tempo of a game is relatively slow; one has to wait for the disease to spread, buy the few initial traits, then wait some more. Mid-game, there is usually a rather fast period of spreading around the world. Then it's mostly waiting again. Psychotics clearly have an edge in this game. There's a certain unhealthy fascination to it... I better stop.

Points:
* Madagascar doesn't have an airport, which makes it very hard to infect. It seems the easiest way around is to start there (but then it takes ages until it infects some other country).
* One recommended combination is Waterbourne+Moisture Resistance II - it allows to infect the water supply of a country.
* Once countries start to close hospitals, the infectious rate is a bit smaller, but the vaccine will take that longer to develop - with many of them closed, it can take literally years. (Note that due to some strange accident, Greenland never closes its hospitals, even when it is dead. So no infinite games.)
* Raising drug resistance also delays the vaccine.
* When the disease spreads into all countries, you can load up on all the nasty traits, that increase visibility and infection rates. They tend to also raise the lethality, so that's when things get really dirty.
* Then... wait until the countries start to die off, one-by-one. If you have done everything right, congratulations, you have destroyed the human race.