Since Evolva was initially a pack-in title with the original GeForce card you might expect that there are some pretty impressive graphics and you wouldn't be mistaken. This game uses every trick in the GeForce handbook to render a strange alien planet with colorful rock formations, rivers and lakes, towering plant-life, and a host of wondrous life forms that go about their business yet still react when you enter their sphere of influence. Most of the native wildlife will keep their distance so you can use their fear to herd them into protective canyons and away from the attacking guardians. The battles with the guardians are frequent and spectacular. Special effects are used in abundance with fiery explosions and burning carcasses smoking in the bloody battlefield.
Some creatures shoot lasers out of scorpion-like tails.
These prove particularly deadly when the creatures place themselves high in the cliffs and organize their laser attacks into the canyon below. While there is some fogging the effect is used more for atmosphere than to increase frame rates. There is nothing more terrifying than hearing the screaming and clicking of an unknown number of guardians then to see them charging out of the mist on the horizon. The sound and music in Evolva are appropriate for the genre and of excellent quality. There are no voices or narration, only the unearthly sounds of alien life forms and the terrifying sounds of the horrible guardians.