and if you have issues actually playing this game, or any game for that matter, the issue is with you, not the maker, so don't hate and upgrade your flash player gangsta, or stop getting viruses from internet porn.
How to win on Realistic: The crux on realistic is everyone shuts down after your amount of infected reaches a certain point. If you buy "transmissions" you will be infecting more people, but you can't turn it off. Instead, buy a symptom that infects, like sneezing, then wait till your starting country starts infecting other countries, then turn off sneezing and just wait till everything is infected, you should have a ton of evo points and then buy transmissions and killing symptoms. gg, won twice this way on realistic.
Honestly though, there should be MUCH more sea traffic than there appears to be in this game, if we're playing realistically of course. After all, how does america get most of it's... everything? Air drops? oh no, not cost effective. Ships may be slow, but there should be thousands more of them than planes.
needs some improvement, I think the mouse control is a bit atypical for this game, feels like i'm in one of those dot escape games that you can almost never win. I think the ship is too big for the playing field too. that and I suck with fine motor skill control as well.
3/5
I've found that lvl 1 is the hardest on any difficulty because you have to deal with default skills, after lvl 1 I've been able to take down anything with equal measures skill strategy and luck.