One thing the first game got right was Crypto’s weapons and psychic abilities, and they are great here too. The only real difference is that you now longer return to your spaceship for new missions, but this makes little difference to how the game plays. While the missions are fun, they usually boil down to going to a certain area, shooting a lot of people, and then either collecting a specific item or eliminating a certain enemy. Crypto is plonked in a sandbox environment which he must traverse in order to complete missions handed to him by various NPCs – my favourite being ‘The Freak’, a hippy pot dealer and informant. The initial structure is largely the same as in last year’s game. However, again like the first game, some jokes fall flat, but there are more than enough to keep you giggling for hours. The script is as comical, ludicrous, and enjoyable as the first game. Hippies roam the streets, giving Crypto ample targets for annihilation, 60’s rock music fills the soundtrack, along with a wealth of pop culture references and in-jokes. From here Crypto must once again fight to conquer the world from those who would oppose him.Īs with the first game, Destroy All Humans! 2 decides to take the mickey out of the period it’s set in, so in this case it’s the swinging 60s. The KGB destroy Orthopox and his space station, but not before the Furon scientist downloads his brain into a holographic projector and delivers himself to Crypto. Unfortunately, the Russians know about this alien impostor and have decided to take the Cold War directly to Crypto and his commander, Orthopox-13 (again voiced by Richard Horvitz, voice of Invader Zim). Genitals he’s currently enjoying the use of while he abuses his power as the president of the USA.
However, Crypto-138 has one advantage over his deceased “brother”… genitals. Fast forward ten years and we find that Cryptosporidium-137 from the original game died during his exploits, replaced by his clone Cryptosporidium-138 (the purpose of the first game was for Crypto to harvest DNA from humans in order for the cloning process to work properly). The original DAH! took place in 1950’s America, lampooning and parodying the B-Movies of the era. This leads DAH! 2 to be an improvement on the original, but still not as good as it could be. Destroy All Humans! 2 tries to make things a bit longer lasting, both in the game’s length and its enjoyment, but ultimately the same problems that cropped up in the original rear their ugly heads once more. When Destroy All Humans! was released last year, it was applauded for its brilliant sense of humour and fun missions, but eventually the gameplay became extremely repetitive and while the script kept things entertaining, my enjoyment became dulled as time went on.
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