Evolva

Evolva is a third-person action game created by British computer artist William Latham and game designer/programmer Mark Atkinson, released in 2000.

Gameplay
The player leads a team of four "GenoHunters" exploring a planet; each of the GenoHunters can develop new abilities by incorporating and altering the DNA they've absorbed from the creatures they have killed. The GenoHunters change their physical appearance (change colors, develop spikes or horns) based on the DNA they've used to mutate themselves. Genohunters can punch, jump, super jump, breathe fire, vomit flammable liquids, shoot explosives, scramble enemies' brains, and spawn small alien offspring that injure enemies. Prior to the game's release, publisher Interplay Entertainment advertised that there are over one billion possible variations on the basic Genohunter.

The game has 12 large, linear levels populated with alien insect-like creatures known as the "parasite guardians". There are different types of these alien creatures. In some of the levels there are "Bosses" at the end which your team of GenoHunters must defeat.

Reception

Jim Preston reviewed the PC version of the game for Next Generation, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "The gorgeous graphics and beautiful sound conceal some rather ordinary, if mostly fun, gameplay."

The game was praised by critics as very innovative, without any major criticisms, other than the high hardware requirements (for the time) and weak multiplayer support.

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Category:2000 video games
Category:Action video games
Category:Interplay Entertainment games
Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Category:Virgin Interactive games
Category:Windows games
Category:Windows-only games
Category:Biopunk

Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games