I think that the first challenge in Pandemic 2 is to figure out, the Madagascar problem, but after that is solved, you have not won anything yet. So, How to destroy human population?
First thing to do is to spread the disease around the world. It is good to start with rodent and keep the disease hidden as long as possible. When the first shipyards are closed, make the disease airborne and
pick up symptoms, which make it spread from human to human, but still try to keep it as hidden as possible. Which one is more important, depends on the the fact, which countries you still need to infect. In other words, do you have to make it move by plane or by humans moving between borders (Peru for example).
Be patient!!! With some luck, you’ll be able to infect the whole World before even any border, shipyard or aeroport is closed.
When the disease has spread, increase the lethal symptom. You could try to build a lethal combination of symptoms, because you do not have evolution points to pick up all. Like fever and sweating do good together. And when everyone is infected, pick up only lethal symptoms.
Some tips
Try to spot big flooding and make the disease waterborne – that will do good.
Vaccine and other counter measures – change the symptoms, make the disease drug resistance to close down more hospitals.
That was only walkthrough, now you go figure out, how to get the top points and let us know.
83 responses so far ↓
1 chris // Nov 14, 2008 at 7:06 pm
fever and sweating are the worst symptoms to have together. fever raises body temp and sweating lowers it. usually once my virus comes out of the closet and everyone knows about it I like to go for things like sweating, diarrhea, and kidney failure. The first two dehydrate the body which tends to mess up the kidneys anyways.
2 johnny // Nov 25, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I find it easiest to sell your starting off symptom so theres no visibility then by all 2 levels of resistance for everything then get airborne and rodents and once your disease has spread to all continents activate waterborne and insects, then once the people of earth start making a vaccine……. DESTROY them with all lethal symptoms. fever is a great starter then i go kidney failure hypersensitivity, herrorage and P.E…oh and PRAY to whatever form of god u have that madagascar gets infected. i’ve used this strategy almost everytime and i 90 % of the time get everything but madagacar, BC it’s A streetWALKER!!!. good luck happy infecting.
3 Porn // Dec 3, 2008 at 9:11 am
if you can get madagascar infected, the entire world will be infected. fact.
4 nias // Dec 13, 2008 at 1:27 am
If you are a bacteria and get lucky and start in new zeland you can infect everywhere iv done this multiple times and iv infected everyone every time i start in new zeland
5 Doig // Dec 16, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Porn you’re wrong. I’ve infected every country except Peru as they closed their borders, airports and shipyards.
6 Pasi Hakkarainen // Dec 17, 2008 at 9:58 am
Same happen to me too. I infected all but Peru and Argentine.
7 Doig // Dec 17, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Just completed it, be parasite. I started in Austrailia, sell your first symptom to get visibility to zero. Upgrade Heat/Cold (depending on your starting continent) to II. Then buy Rodent transmission.Then, concentrate on getting Moisture and Heat/Cold to II as well. Then, get insect transmission. Finally, upgrade Drug Resistance to IV. Sit back and hopefully (I did 3 times in a row) you will infect all countries. Once all countries are infected you have practically won and simply just upgrade your disease symptoms, mine killed effectively with Fever, Vomiting, Fatigue, Insanity, Depression and Sores. You don’t need all of these to kill however. Fever, vomiting and fatigue do it well.
8 luckyme // Dec 21, 2008 at 6:11 pm
i started in Madagascar w00t w00t
9 Finny // Jan 1, 2009 at 10:37 am
Hate to say it, but why isn’t HIV on the list of death? It’d be perfect cause it has no symptoms.
10 Chris // Jan 24, 2009 at 8:25 pm
You have to first get the virus somewhere before you start killing everybody. Take advantage of floods and droughts with heat and cold. Use boats first to get the virus going. Then use air when you get atleast 4 countries infected, then start using symptoms. Make as many as you can so atleast they start dying. When that’s done, watch the world die slowely..
11 Nooooooooo // Jan 24, 2009 at 9:21 pm
NOOOO I HAVE EVERYTHING BUT MADAGASCAR!!!!
12 Pasi Hakkarainen // Jan 24, 2009 at 9:52 pm
I know the feeling
That has happen to me about 100 times.
13 Vampire1408 // Feb 16, 2009 at 2:46 pm
OMG! I tried for days to get Madagascar but no… I’v always got every region, but Madagascar. I think the best thing to do is choose virus, keep fever and sneezing (if you satrt with them) otherwise buy them. Depending where you start upgrade your resistences (eg.west europe – cold II) watch where planes/boats and the populations go to and upgrade the rest of your resistences lv II – BUT moisture II. Once you have about 100Evolution points start spending them on airbourne, wait a while then buy waterbourne – nows the time to get moisture resistance lv II/+. Upgrade all your resistences if a vacine comes otherwise unlock other tiers – if you start with any symptoms and their buy cost is higher than the sell cost then there’s a high chance it’s a good symptom. But mass symptoms that are noticeable – but not visble – eg. sneezing.
The best thing to do at the beginning is to infect at least 1 person in each region but make sure they’re not cured from hospitals (Drug resistence II/+ would be useful) and tem focus more on the resistences, then symptoms BUT if you look at transmissions once they discover one the rest are useless – lile airbourne – if countries start giving out masks then they’re gonna give otehr stuff out to other transmissions, so transmissions are only good at the beginning of the game.
~I find virus real good, same with bacteria but parasites just not enough points – beginners should choose bacteria!
14 D Dulce // Mar 2, 2009 at 10:46 pm
I was able to beat the game on realistic, including Madagascar, consistently with the following stategy.
Sell whatever symptoms you have at the beginning.
Buy Drug Resistance up to level 2. No higher.
Buy cold or heat resistance all the way. Not both, just one or the other, doesnt seem to matter which.
Buy infectivity for rodents and/or insects. It doesnt seem to matter if its one or both, although if both you might end up scaring the countries too quick.
As disease just starts to catch, buy sneezing symptom.
Watch as Disease begins to infect all the countries. Once you see countries begin to shut down their airports and seaports, add all infectivity symptoms and measures.
Pray for Madagascar.
If madagascar doesn’t get hit before it closes its seaport you have a small chance of still getting it.
This method probably has a 1/5 chance of winning. My highest score is 22,000.
hope that helps
15 Jewels // Apr 2, 2009 at 1:36 am
im trying what you guys say, but my disease isnt even spreading anywhere…
16 virus // Apr 3, 2009 at 1:33 pm
1.sell symptom
2.buy waterborne first and wait till some countries get infected the get airbourne
3.buy all resistance only up to level 1
4.speed up time wait for all counties to be infected
5.hope that madagascar gets infected
6.start buyin symptoms to shut down hospitals (if hospitals dont shut down and theres 10 days left get drug resistance)
7.sit back and watch world domination
17 yo // Apr 5, 2009 at 6:00 pm
The trick is to sell all your syptoms, then watch it slowly take over, THEN add all the lethal crap.
18 Apocalypse // Apr 6, 2009 at 7:52 am
I killed all the world!!!!
If you want you can use the walkthrough.
My desease name was SGE and started in Madagascar. First of all I sold my starting symptom (in my case, sneezing)I put resistance level 2 to all except for drugs. Then I put all the types of Transmission and wait until day 50 and
all the countries were infected. Then I only put cough for make the transmission faster. Then I only started to put my Symptoms. I put sweating, diarrhea and hypersensitivity. I keep waiting until a hae 20 evolution points and I buy the “unlock tier IV” and buy more symptoms like hearth failure and when I bought it blindness and insanity were activated.
They died in this order (just for fun xD): Greenland, New Zeland, Cuba, Australia, Madagascar, Argentina, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Mexico, Canada, Brasil, Japan, Middle East, East Europe, Indonesia, USA, India, West Europe, North Africa and finally China.
19 Apocalypse // Apr 6, 2009 at 7:53 am
79,000 points!!! Not the best but I killed humankind Buahahahaha!!!!
20 virusssssss // Apr 16, 2009 at 4:01 pm
gah….started with madagascar…i was exited….got everything but japan
21 anathoma // May 1, 2009 at 6:34 pm
fuck its hard i killed greenland and australiaand loads were infected… but they all closed i guess i did it wrong lmfao
22 anathoma // May 1, 2009 at 6:39 pm
if they close everything can u infect them in any way at all?
23 Pasi Hakkarainen // May 1, 2009 at 7:44 pm
No, if borders, harbours and airports are closed, you cannot get a country infected.
24 anathoma // May 1, 2009 at 9:43 pm
fuck that sucks and this time i started in madagascar so (hopefully) ill do better
25 anathoma // May 1, 2009 at 10:03 pm
whats the quickest germ to infect other countries?
26 anathoma // May 1, 2009 at 10:44 pm
IVE DONE IT!!!!!! score was 84927 not amazing lol but i was ssoooooo lucky to start of wid madagascar, sell your first symptom and then get heat cold moisture drug resistance to max then get insect, rodent, water and air so that it travels well wait un till everywheres infected then hit em hard with fatal diseases it takes a while but humanity was overcome lmfao freaky to think that swine flu actually could do this! its so nice to watch it say things like “no signs of life in Greenland” which is normalyy first to die out good luck peeps!
27 Pasi Hakkarainen // May 2, 2009 at 7:44 am
Perhans sneezing – airborne virus, with drug resistance II would be good while infecting every country.
When every country is infected, you can turn it to more lethal.
28 Kiran // May 2, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Call your thing morethanacolditis and hopefully you will start in madagascar
29 suxi // May 4, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Pray you dont start in the US it takes ages to get going.
Also it doesnt get to madagascar.
I called mine swine flu, cos im evil
30 anathoma // May 4, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Easy game really peeps jsut a matter of patience sell 1st symptom to get visibility to 0 and just get insect airbourne waterbourne and rodents but most important thing is get drugs up to iv then get heat/cold up to 2 (depending on which place u start on) eg Middle east heat russia cold then get moisture 2 and then as u get through the game upgrade all of them when everyone is infected and some kickass symptoms to kill them. In order of what to do 1. get cold/hot up to 2 2. get drugs up to iv 3. get insect and rodent to spread 4. after a while u will start to spread now get moisture to 2. 5. now get airbourne and waterbourne 6. now if it hasnt already infected the world get cold and heat and moisture to max u can afford 7. if the world is infected completely u have won (Practically) unless they get a vaccine which if u have drug iv ( explained earlier) should take a while. 8. time to kill get every virus u want because by this time u should have quite alot of evolution points fever, sweating, fatigue, sores insanity worked for me but if you want to develop your own it doesnt really matter as long as you have lethal symtoms the world will (eventually) die. If it goes well message back and tell me likewise if it goes wrong message and tell me what you did and if i see something wrong ill tell u. aNaThOmA was my disease!
31 anathoma // May 5, 2009 at 9:50 pm
forgot people first step SELL your first symptom!
32 killerrrrr. // May 5, 2009 at 11:44 pm
OMG. man this was so weird. i used parasite, and called it swine flu, coz im evil
but it started in mexico:| the next continent was West Europe, and then East Europe. so im wondering if the real swine flu will go there next? :S
33 Pandemic Freak // May 6, 2009 at 6:01 pm
1. Select a parasite and sell your first symptom.
2. Buy full drug resistance.
3. Buy level 3 of the other resistances (level 2 if it is your durable trait).
4. Wait until every region has someone infected.
5. Buy waterborne transmission.
6. Buy airborne transmission.
7. Buy insect transmission.
8. Buy rodent transmission.
9. Wait until everyone is infected.
10. Buy symptoms (buy the ones that say that they are infectious in the description).
11. Watch ‘em disappear like Houdini.
34 Dan // May 10, 2009 at 5:14 am
So just throwing this out there but 5/5 times i made my name strange and i started in madagascar
35 Jon // May 18, 2009 at 4:37 am
omg i got everything even madagascar but not ARGENTINA yes argentina omg!!!! i’m so mad
36 ISHKAS // May 21, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Has it occurred to anyone that maybe there is a simple strategy, but it is NONSPECIFIC.
37 JG // May 27, 2009 at 5:56 am
It´s possible, I just finish it myselff.
First time in like 20 tries, but I did it! Yay!
Used Bacteria, did NOT sell my symtom.
Made it resistent (All min. lvl1) and used rodents, insects and airborne. The water bullcrap later on.
Just be patient. It’s possible.
38 A-Lou // May 27, 2009 at 4:53 pm
161201
i killed everyone
39 Breauchy // May 27, 2009 at 7:02 pm
hey that’s sweet
40 Pandemic Master // Jun 3, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I’ve gotten Madagascar 3 times in 1 day, FACT, NO LIE. One good place to start out in is Australia. Depending on what your starting resistance is, buy the 2nd level of it, then sell your starting symptom. Then after this is all done, get airborne. Wait until you get at least 10 or 20 evolution points then buy waterborne and make sure you have AT LEAST level 1 resistance on everything, then when the game gets into it, get your drug resistance up, this makes it so the hospitals close, which then make it so everyone can spread it easier. Then when you have that done, these are the symptoms you should have in order to win: Fever, the Hypertension one, Kidney Failure and all the other Failures, then after you have those look for the symptoms that don’t really increase your visibility, but are lethal. This always works about 95% of the time and yes, it is possible to get Madagascar infected w/o starting in it, but it is better to start in Madagascar.
41 FAILZ // Jun 3, 2009 at 9:23 pm
OMG, EVERYTHING BUT PERU!!! That fails so badly! Did it by doing h/w and just leaving it to infect the world
. sell first sympton buy some resistance and rodent transmission. THen leave it.
42 tzu // Jun 4, 2009 at 10:55 pm
u dont need transmission for a virus
43 XxchexterxX // Jun 12, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Does anyone know how to raise the score? I’ve completly destroyed the world about 10 times and all my scores are around 72,000.
44 Potato // Jun 17, 2009 at 6:20 am
Umm, I have a few suggestions. And complaints. Every one knows how bad Madagascar is to get, but everyone frogets about how hard it is to get to Greenland and Peru. Madagascar is still the hardest, but those contries are hard to get to. And also, if you are desprate to win the game, do it on relaxed, it’s much easier.
My strategy (won twice)
Heat/Cold 1 (depending on which one you have)
Drug 1
Waterborne
Moisture 1
Drug 2
Drug 3
and wait.
Also, you can either go for infectivity or detectability, depending on whether you keep your first symptom or not.
DONT BY NEW SYMPTOMS UNTIL YOU INFECT THE WHOLE PLANET.
45 Pandemic 2 // Jul 3, 2009 at 8:41 am
I sure hope another Pandemic does not hit our world again. I can’t bear to see that many people die!! Hopefully it will stay out of the US again.
46 Pandemic 3 // Jul 15, 2009 at 6:14 am
I sure hope another Pandemic does not hit our world again. I can’t bear to see that many people die!! Hopefully it will stay out of the US again.
47 b. rose // Aug 21, 2009 at 11:17 pm
i started in madagascar and infected everything except japan noooooooo!!!!!!!! why!!!!!!
48 Ultra Mega Virus Doom King // Sep 6, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I are start in Madagascar, my name is madagascar. I killed planet in fourteen days use plus 1 cool and vomit
49 Morris // Sep 25, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Just try the way from Doig i killed whole world with that. Thanks very much!
50 Morris // Sep 25, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Score : 96000
51 hateupandemic // Sep 28, 2009 at 6:11 am
ok, tried like 4 times each strategy and got nothing im quiting…
52 animecharm16 // Oct 17, 2009 at 7:57 am
OMG I WON!!!! what i did ( im not sure if this will work for anyone else)
1 relaxed mode
2 virus
3 sold sysmtom
4 did homework and didn’t check on game for a few minutes racked up over a 150 points
5 bought ALL resistances
6 did more homework got more points
7 unlock the tiers of sysmtoms ONLY (sell extra systoms)
8 more homework
9 when EVERYONE is infected buy heart and kidney failure
10 sit back and watch
PS Madagascar is really tricky to get and i got lucky all the rest of the countries are easier to infect than madagascar if you follow my instructions u may or may not get madagascar
53 stango // Oct 23, 2009 at 3:43 am
Dulce’s method worked for me, but I started in Madagascar.
54 stango // Oct 23, 2009 at 10:20 pm
I don’t think that one strategy works. It depends on your starting spot, it seems. I’ve won with completely different strategies, and without repeat success of any given strategy.
With virus, you do not need to add transmissability.
Definitely SELL your first symptom. If you start with airborne built in, start over.
55 citynights123 // Nov 11, 2009 at 6:50 am
Has anyone else noticed that during the game a notice comes up saying Madagascar has closed its airports?
Thought it only had a seaport.
56 NATE // Nov 17, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Started with indonesia and whiped it all out =)
57 Hypno // Nov 26, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Man… Finally got Madagascar and all the other regions… missed South Africa.. really starting to get annoying
58 aelar // Nov 28, 2009 at 1:30 pm
i just started with madagascar.
started with:
rodents
insects
drug IV
Moisture III
heat & cold II
i waited for ages and then it spread like wildfire
put on air and waterborne.
and wait for the world to get infected
turn on fatality
pop goes the weasel
59 korey // Dec 10, 2009 at 10:22 am
Finally,
Buy, rodent, air, insect…
Leave the game going for awhile, and you will accrue points without actually spreading the disease (it toggles between (6-30 infected). When you have over 60 points, start by buying the opposite resistance of the country you are in (eg. canada, buy heat then moisture). When more points come, buy cold. Fill to IV before moving on to the next attribute. Once every country is infected, the rest is easy.
60 timothé // Dec 29, 2009 at 5:08 pm
I got it thanks you very much
61 mike // Jan 8, 2010 at 7:10 am
It was such a long time since i played this game so i thought “what the hell.. i’ll give it a go, for old times sake..”
I got madagascar as my starting country (yeaa), parasite.. rodent to begin with, the water, last airborne and insect. As you get evopoints.. pack on the moist, heat, cold, drug resistance before getting the disease visible.. when you have infected the whole world.. Crush em with all the worst you can afford. Hopefully you have got what it takes so you have beaten them before they have completed their vaccine..
62 Insane2Death // Jan 11, 2010 at 12:30 pm
this only works if you started in india as its ships mainly go to madagascar
1.sell all your symptoms
2.buy all drugs to max
3.get waterborne
4.get rodent transmission
5.get insect transmission
6.then wait for a ship from india to go to madagscar
7.BUY THE LETHAL DISEASES
8.wait and watch the world suffer
63 Insane2Death // Jan 11, 2010 at 12:33 pm
buy airborne after step 7!
64 fjhf // Feb 4, 2010 at 5:16 am
fu%k its hard n i cant get to madegacar at all n ive played it like fifty times
65 niga // Feb 4, 2010 at 5:52 pm
how the hell do all you mother fuckers beat this game when my fuckin score is higher than all of yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
66 niga // Feb 4, 2010 at 5:55 pm
i started in madagascar….what do i do???
67 help // Feb 5, 2010 at 6:42 pm
everyone is infected but idk what to do…suggestions??
68 help // Feb 8, 2010 at 6:01 pm
guess whos back
69 heres my stradigy ( WORKS ) // Feb 9, 2010 at 12:15 am
Ok, my stradigy is to get Fever and kidny fail. Once that get rodant and Waterborn then Airborn. If possible get all Drug Risistants. Get about 100 Evovulation points and domonate! This only works if you start with Brazil!! If you start with Madagascar that works to
70 For citynights123 // Feb 9, 2010 at 12:19 am
it dose! mine said ” Madagascars Goverment closes airports to pervent further infection ” im like ” WTF! ” XD i bought the lethal symtoms and it said ” Madagascars Goverment is closing SeaPorts to pervent further infectetion ” then im like ” Fuc* It im sqrewed “, Closed the screen and whent to youtube and listen to music XD
71 Fail // Feb 11, 2010 at 7:04 pm
I just got every country but Madagascar. I hate Madagascar.
72 Fail // Feb 11, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Woah, I just saw the most epic thing…
Under “Approximate Days to Completion” it said Infinity. Hilarious.
73 WTF // Mar 15, 2010 at 12:41 am
okay… i start off in madigascar, but i cant infect anywhere else! even though everything is open! its been 4 hours!
74 why did this have to happen // Mar 15, 2010 at 12:42 am
okay… i start off in madigascar, but i cant infect anywhere else! even though everything is open! its been 6 hours!
75 Javi the hutt // Apr 2, 2010 at 6:55 am
i started off in Madagascar and destroyed the world
76 Kelsey // Apr 22, 2010 at 3:17 am
I have played this game non-stop for 3 days, and the only time I ever got Madagascar was when I started there, and then I couldn’t get freaking Cuba.
This game is infuriating but it’s sooooo addicting…
I really hope all the enjoyment I get from playing this doesn’t doom me to hell…
77 Sammie // May 12, 2010 at 11:35 pm
. I got every place except for Madagascar :p. I noticed that even after i amde mt disease deadly, good ol’ Greenland still had ports and airports open, haha
78 I DID IT! // May 21, 2010 at 5:17 am
OMG! i did it start off wherever u are (i started in greenland) then
1. Select a parasite and sell your first symptom.
2. Buy full drug resistance
3. rodents. then
4. Buy level 3 of the other resistances
5. Wait until every region has someone infected.
6. Buy waterborne transmission.
7. Buy airborne transmission.
8. Buy insect transmission.
and then go sick.
watch em drop like flys ;P
79 Olek1996pl // May 30, 2010 at 9:11 am
Doig is right use his method it worked 1st time when i tried it
80 The Guy Who Did Everything.. // Jun 29, 2010 at 6:17 pm
I followed the “No Sympton And All Ressistance and transmission” tactic but MADAGASCAR WOULDN’T HAVE THAT, No THE DON’T WANT TO DIE. WHY? WHY DON’T THEY WANT TO DIE? SAME WITH CUBA…(gunshot)………..
81 The Guy Who Did Everything.. // Jun 29, 2010 at 6:18 pm
wait where’s iceland? I’m confused…
82 oto ilan // Aug 12, 2010 at 11:43 pm
thanks for share. I will shared face
83 The Guy Whose Penis Conquered The World // Aug 20, 2010 at 8:26 pm
87.000 points plus Madagascar and starting from New Zealand. Fucking addicitive game..took me ages to get to motherfucking MADagascar
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