

It will close if too many people are infected in the region. While open, a hospital provides research towards a vaccine of your disease.

Also, each country has little symbols in black boxes placed on it, which turn gray when closed. Countries are color-coded (green to red) to indicate how much havoc your disease is wreaking on that nation.

Fortunately, you can click on any country to see every relevant statistic about it. "Breaking News" tends to happen all at once, with no scroll box to view older posts. On the left is a panel of "Breaking News", which gives you news updates on countries related to the ease (or difficulty) of infecting that country. In-game, there are 3 screens, the World Map, the World Information, and the Evolution (Disease).Īn overview of the world. Then you select your disease class, name the disease, and your disease infects its first few people in a randomly selected country/region. You start out by choosing either the 'Relaxed' or 'Realistic' game style, where 'Relaxed' has fewer upgrades and generally takes less time than 'Realistic'. The object of the game is to carefully give your disease the right symptoms, resistances, and other means of transmission so that you are able to infect (then kill) every person in the world, while the world attempts to quarantine and/or cure your disease. As you watch the map, you see international transportation taking place while "Evolution Points" are added to your bank. You spend most of the game looking at a simplistic world map, divided up into larger portions of 6 continents (no Antarctica). In Pandemic 2, you play as a disease under the class of Virus, Bacteria, or Parasite, each with its own set of pros and cons.
