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Modern Japan is definitely a pack that would work well with a 'mixed' review option. The buildings themselves are quality, they fit into the game well, there's no visual issues. However, the big peeve with everyone, including me, is that every building in the pack, not just the skyscrapers, not just the pagoda, everything is a unique building in the vanilla game. A zoning type similar to European Suburbia would've worked well, instead of a mod requirement for them to actually work like residential/commercial/office buildings.

Good design, bad execution, Paradox need to do a double-take on this pack at some point.
5/10.

Today I introduce to you my 'Catastrophic DLCs 101', a guide on how to make an absolutely horrific expansion that should've been in the base game.
Step 1: Buy out the rights to a cult-classic game
Step 2: Create a sequel nearly two decades later
Step 3: Cut a lot of content that makes no sense to be cut (e.g. doors, variants of uncut items)
Step 4: Disable any way to acquire said items in already existing saves
Step 5: Sell the cut content as DLC not even 2 months after the game's release
Step 6: Profits, you yourself have become an Evil Genius. Please reconsider your act.

I will end this review with a warning and a list of resolutions to Rebellion;
- Do not release any more paid DLCs for at least a few months. Evil Genius 2 is still a very new game, it is completely unjust to slam down a paywall for extra content not even a couple months into the game's lifespan.
- More free content instead, I'm not much a marketing expert, but I believe creating more stuff for the base game will rack in a fair few more profits.
- Create a fix for not being able to utilise the new content on existing saves, I outright refuse to create a new save just for the sake of these new items, especially after just completing I, Roboticist.

Do take notes, Rebellion, I won't be standing for this.

Edit: OK, I have checked the, uhhhh... New game menu... There's an entire menu to select what DLC packs you want on for the game. But, why is it not anywhere when you load up any saves?

Trolleybusses, Helicopters, Intercity busses. They should be in Mass Transit.
The fishing industry should be in Industries.
The aviation club should be in After Dark/Mass Transit.
This is essentially nothing but a paid update for all of those DLCs.
It's also a waste of £11.39, because they all belong in other DLCs.
The only excuse for this DLC to exist is that CO and Paradox want our cash money, and to that I say "♥♥♥♥ you."
Scandinavian EA, everyone.
Scandinavian EA.

Name another game that lets you go thunder down the Route 101 from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a semi. Go on. I'll wait.

Hello, avid climate activist / review section dweller.
You're probably looking here to ask the question of if buying this DLC is really worth it.
And brother, it is.
Clearly you're here because you don't like all the pollution in your city, especially the ♥♥♥♥ in the water.
Well fear not! Colossal Order have a solution for you! Now you can build eco-friendly water outlets and treatment plants! And for electric, we also have Geothermal Power Plants, and Solar Updraft Towers thanks to this DLC!
AND THEN THERE'S THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GARBAGE WHICH IS STILL PILING UP EVEN THOUGH I'VE BUILT LIKE 50 LANDFILLS AND INCINERATION PLANTS (I haven't, really), lemme guess, you think there is garbage in your water, well FLOATING TRASH COLLECTOR TIME, collect all the garbage you need from the water to keep it looking pretty with the green rolling hills surrounding your city, which are currently ALSO BEING POLLUTED BY A LONG LINE OF GARBAGE TRUCKS TRYING TO CLEAR UP THE PILEUP OF TRASH AROUND THE CITY.
Fret no more, my boy, biofuel garbage trucks have arrived, and come free with recycling plants!
THAT BRINGS US TO THE MONUMEEEEEEENT
An Ultimate Recycling Plant, basically two recycling plants combined into one. Place it down and watch the new green garbage trucks roll out ONLY TO ADD ON TO THE STILL GROWING TRAFFIC JAM GOING INTO MY CITY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
There are also new healthcare facilities, a yoga garden, a community pool, and a sports hall and gymnasium. As far as I'm concerned, they're just there to look good. I haven't seen anything happen other than my CIMs flocking to get in.
What about education? Well, to answer that, take a look at the new community school, institute of creative arts, and institute of modern technology.
Hmmmhmhmhmmhmhmm, what about the unique buildings, I hear you say?
Well, the first is Central Park, and as the name implies, it is literally a smaller Central Park from Manhattan. It even features a food stand, nice.
The Bird and Bee Haven, as the name implies, is meant to be a little sanctuary for birds to get away from the hustle and bustle of your horrid metropolis which is sprawling out endlessly across all horizons
The Ziggurat Garden, which, is a massive green pyramid, I've never actually looked inside of it to see what it is, but as the name implies, it's a pyramid with lots of G R A S S.
Three other unique buildings also await you in game!
And to finish off the list, there are also biofuel busses, new commerical buildings, a new residential specialisation, new policies, new scenarios, and a new office specialisation.
Buyer. Buy now.

Just buy it, these songs are absolutely banging.

One of the reasons I like Cities Skylines is because some cities are pretty beautiful to look at.
All of those cities are my own, because I'm a narcissist.
When I came across the Art Deco pack, I hadn't heard of this Matt Crux guy, but I had some money to spare with three £20 gift cards I got for Christmas (From family, not myself of course).
I was not disappointed.
It might just be three unique buildings, some apartments, houses, and some 50s looking businesses, but for 4 pounds, it's 100% worth it.

Perfect game, I legit died laughing at it. Though it does crash often, it's still in early access, so more goofy, crazy, and fun features are on the way!
Keep it up, Landfall. Bloody perfect.

This top-down strategic war game lets you take charge of a country's military and diplomatic ties, it also basically, if affecting real life, can become a tool that changes history itself.
You can play as any country from Bohemia to Tibet, Canada to Greece (and pay off that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ debt), and Britain to Yugoslavia. There are multiple premade scenarios too, based around World War 2, or 1400s, basically play out history as you want it.
Now, I really like one thing, you can make your own scenarios, which made me come up with the absolutely stupid scenario that Britain would take over all of Afro-eurasia alongside Australia and New Zealand, while multiple countries evacuate their population to South America. With this, you can change the premade scenarios or, make your own, for example, I'm making one right now based off of Europe and the Middle East today, or, if you have the balls to, anger every Serbian by having Kosovo BE Serbia, or anger most of the Ukrainian population make Crimea belong to Russia.
You can also make your own civilisations with their own leaders, so the sky is pretty much this game's limit, alongside editing the profiles of current leaders in your game..
The game may, sometimes, glitch out and the screen constantly goes from black to an empty map of the place you were looking at before the glitching.
Time may just be forever paused, and you'll have to press space to always move on with the days.
Those are really the only bugs I've found.
So, Age of Civilisations 2 is a game, in summary, about being either a brutal military dictator, or a good boi willing to unite the planet.
You can go now, go on, adios.

Cities Skylines is mainly centered around the goal of building your own successful city, but never did it get better than this to destroy it.
Natural Disasters is a literal city-destroying meteor-showering car-overthrowing facility-destroying DLC that will get your adrenaline pumping. But we've reached that time again, where as, an expert city destroyer, I must show you the
Tsunamis
Meteor showers
Lightning
Tornados
Forest fires
Sinkholes
But it's not just the disasters that are the pros...
Disaster response units can be built in the city, which can find survivors of an attack, and can allow you to rebuild the ruins of a building
A diverse selection of scenarios
A wide variety of buildings that can all detect incoming disasters
You can turn off disasters happening randomly
It takes too long for major disasters like tsunamis to happen
Citizens hardly choose to go into the shelters when the sirens wail

It really did stun me the first time I found it. I was glued to it, so now for my overall rating out of 10, which is ofcourse a 9/10, because there are only 2 flaws I can point out, but really, it's just amazing, and you should get it if you want a thrill.