History VideoGame / Evolva

''Evolva'' is a third-person action game, released in 2000. The player leads a team of 4 "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 will change their physical appearance (change colors, develop spikes or horns) based on the DNA they've used to mutate themselves. Your Genohunters can punch, jump, super jump, breathe fire, vomit flammable liquids, shoot explosives, scramble enemies brains and spawn small alien offspring that injure enemies.

!!''Evolva'' provides examples of:

* ActionBomb / TakingYouWithMe: Flame Parasites catch fire, and explode after a few seconds, when they're killed.

* BioPunk
* ChameleonCamouflage: The Stealth Parasites can do this.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: The Parasite tries this in the final level.

* GrimyWater: Not the river water that appears in most levels, but the sea water that appears in levels 9 and 10. It drains life quite fast if you merely touch it, and diving into it causes instant death (in contrast to lava, which takes a few seconds to kill you). Oh, and the shield skill doesn't you protect you from it.

* LethalLavaLand: Levels 6, 7, and 8. There's also a single LavaPit in level 5, but it's extremely easy to avoid it in contrast to the ones in later levels.

* MadeOfExplodium: Flame Parasites.

* MonstersEverywhere: See the ZergRush entry below.
* NaturalWeapon / ShapeshifterWeapon: All of the weapons you can get. The genohunters' limbs (sometimes the neck or the back) transform each time you select a weapon, as you shoot at the enemies using the transformed limb.

* OutsideContextProblem: The Parasite.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Levels 9 and 10.

* ZergRush: Seriously, play this game and you'll be amazed at the great amount of numbers of enemies that attack you at the same time ''every single battle''. Sometimes you may enter in combats against ''twenty'' enemies or so.

* StandardStatusEffects: The genedisruptor beam, which has two effects: on your party members that you're not controlling at the moment, it makes them attack each other, something like Confusion; on the directly controlled partly member, it inverts the controls.

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke

* OutsideContextVillain: The Parasite.

* ZergRush: Seriously, play this game and you'll be amazed at the great amount of numbers of enemies that attack you at the same time ''every single battle''. Sometimes you may enter in combats against ''twenty'' enemies or so.

* BioPunk

* NaturalWeapon: All of the weapons you can get. The genohunters' limbs (sometimes the neck or the back) transform each time you select a weapon, as you shoot at the enemies using the transformed limb.

Evolva is a third-person action game, released in 2000. The player leads a team of 4 "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 will change their physical appearance (change colors, develop spikes or horns) based on the DNA they've used to mutate themselves. Your Genohunters can punch, jump, super jump, breathe fire, vomit flammable liquids, shoot explosives, scramble enemies brains and spawn small alien offspring that injure enemies.

!!Provides examples of:

* AWinnerIsYou: The ending? After you destroy the Parasite's bomb and defeat the [[DualBoss two bosses]] guarding it, [[spoiler:the final cutscene just shows the Parasite agonizing and the spaceship leaving the planet. End.]]

* MisbegottenMultiplayerMode: There's a multiplayer mode, but it's kind of tacked on: plain deathmatch that allows you to use your characters from the single-player campaign if you like. Also, finding players is somewhat difficult and the best option is to try to find another player via the Internet protocol. The handful of maps aren't bad (the multi-player maps are medium to large in size and include some of the strangest designs of all the maps in the game), but Evolva multi-player is mostly an afterthought.

* [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion Spontaneous Alien Combustion]]: Check the ActionBomb entry.

* [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion Spontaneous Alien Combustion]]/TakingYouWithMe: Flame parasites catch fire, and explode after a few seconds, when they're killed.

* MadeOfExplodium: Flame parasites.

* UnstableGeneticCode: Your Genohunters are able to mutate to acquire their enemies' skills in seconds.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: The parasite tries this in the final level.
* EliteMook: The genedisruptor parasites. Appearing only during the two last levels, not only they are [[GiantMook significatively larger than any other mook]] (to the point that their small version is about the same size than standard mooks), but they can take a lot of damage, and their main attack is a beam that drains life fast as hell ''and'' confuses your Genohunters (if the affected Genohunter is the one being controlled, it inverts the controls; on non-controlled Genohunters, it makes them start attacking each other).

* DuelBoss: The bomb which is [[EarthShatteringKaboom about to blow up the planet]] during the final level is guarded by two identical giant parasites.

* MadeOfExplodium: Flame parasites.

* LockedDoor: Starting from level 7, you'll need to find some coloured disks (either lying on the ground or dropped by enemies) that serve to open the doors with a circle on its top of the same colour.

* Overheating: You have unlimited ammo for your attacks once you get them, but you must wait for them to charge again if you use them for too much time.