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For those who have the mag to hand, you may wanna check out the feature on Games Testing, with quotes and a rather interesting photo of Elixir's lead tester, Jez.

All the info, a link to Max's press statement and a chance to vote for your favourite awaits in our ultimate poll! Check it out!

• The Worker's Lounge - a place for offtopic chat and laid back conversation... the infamous *poke* thread awaits...
• The Evil Genius' Table - a heavily moderated forum for serious chat and debate...
• General Evil Genius Chat - all the chat, speculation, news and comment regarding the upcoming release of Evil Genius, with loads of useful information.
• Demo Chat - for chat about getting, playing and having fun in the recently released demo version of Evil Genius (no spoilers allowed)
• Hacking / Cheating / Spoilers / Mod creation chat - a forum specially made to chat about the hidden secrets of the demo and the possibilities for modding the final version (spoiler warning)
• Evil Planet polls - a place to vote on and chat about all the recent Evil Planet polls

The second, a screenshot and occasionally expletive filled offering from Idle Thumbs is a very enjoyable read indeed. It makes a couple of assumptions and debates various bits of information which they will not find an answer to without the final build, but this is a well thought out and highly positive preview, commenting that "the developers have delivered" and that you should "go out now and buy it". Can't say fairer than that. Be sure to take a look at this one, it's my favourite of all the recent previews, by far.

With a slew of highly anticipated games coming out soon, it may be difficult for the game to break ice, but with a presentation like this, its also hard to think it won’t.

"The best news is that EG is a more coherent, tighter and more manageable offering than Republic. It's beautifully streamline concept is easy to grasp."

"The most striking and pleasantly surprising aspect of the opening minutes is that everything in the game......... adheres to a very strong and specific sense of style."

"A very British sense of humour...."

"The designers have cleverly prevented the game from degenerating into an aimless sandbox."

"The majority of the game's features function extremely well and the theme is rock-solid throughout.

Conclusion: "Crucially the game never drops the act. Not once does it crack a mocking grin which would break the cartoon magic, but is filled with the sort of humour and pleasing details that other developers will be wishing they'd thought of first."

"So should you leave it on the shelf, as you did with Republic? Why no Mr Bond, I expect you to buy."

"It's" - Stylish, crammed with good ideas, Brosnan rather than Connery.
"It's Not" - A sandbox, easy being evil, quite a work of genius.

Main criticsms include the hotel building fronts "underexplored and unnecessary," and "at times it feels like there's too much pressure," and finally, "the balance isn't smoothly maintained. Thanks, Dave.

You may also have seen on the forums that amongst the many new sign-ups, we have many members of the games development team answering questions - the producers, designers and testers to name a few. They are really cool and can help you get the best from the demo.

I should like to point one thing out though - this website is totally unofficial - the fact the dev team posts here is great, but it doesn't mean that anything posted here or on the site is in any way affected by them. I wanted to mention this as it is the policy of this site to not talk about hacking the demo or posting spoilers which could arise from this. It was a decision taken by myself and the other admin - not Elixir or Vivendi. We are just not too keen on spoilers!

If you are into modding and various hacks on legitimate copies of the full game, you'll be in luck however - this site plans to support all that the community does with the game.

The forums, where you can chat about the game and maybe even get your questions/comments answered by the team behind Elixir themselves, has special threads for help in installing and running the game and detailed information on what is still available for you in the final version. Confused that there are too many agents in the demo? Worried about the lack of item X or trap Y? Come on in - your questions may have already been answered.

More demo and release news as it breaks - all here at Evil Planet.

• Official "Mirror List" thread
• Official "First Impressions" thread
• Official "Help Me!" thread
• General demo chat forum

Yup - no-one knows - but keep checking the forums for the latest info... the demo is nearly here!

Our forum numbers have rocketed by about 300% - go join the fun!

Evil Planet will be busy finding all the latest links, all of which will be posted on the forums and here on the main site. The forums will also be buzzing with chat about the game and comments on how good it is - make sure you join us for that!

A reminder - Gamespot have the downlaod a few hours earlier than everyone else, and their DLX download services can be set up to download the demo as soon as they release it if you have a decent "always-on" connection. Check out the post below this one for more information.

Eyws down... it's goona be good!

Jubei’s wind walk, for example, allows you to instantly teleport him to a remote part of the island to take care of a troublesome agent. Dr Neurocide’s Hallucinogenic Powder allows you to disguise suspicious objects for a short time, which can be extremely useful for preventing high-risk items like the sentry gun getting destroyed by agents.

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