Destroy All Humans 2 (Xbox)

.co.uk Review

In a nutshell:
The love generation is an endangered species with the return of everybody’s favourite human hating alien and his painfully bizarre array of people busting weapons.

The lowdown:
Crypto (or at least one of his clones) is back! With his previous genocidal plans foiled, he’s now trying his luck in the 60s. No longer restricted to America, you can now tour the world with missions set in the USSR, Britain and Japan which revolves around a bizarre conspiracy involving ninjas and rival aliens. The first sensible change to the gameplay though is the reduction of the stealth elements from the first game and the addition of new weapons like the meteor strike and the killer Frisbee throwing Disclocator. Combat is still pretty shallow, but Crypto’s psychic powers and the chance to wreck whole cities with your flying saucer provide plenty of amusement.

Most exciting moment:
Destroying humans is always more fun with a friend and unlike the last game this includes a co-operative mode that lets you play the whole of the story mode with a pal. Since Crypto is a clone anyway it’s not much of a stretch for the plot either.

Since you ask:
THQ has announced a deal with Fox Broadcasting to make a computer animated TV show based on Destroy All Humans! One of the writers from cartoon King of the Hill has been brought on to work on it but there’s no clue as to when it will start airing.

The bottom line:
Shallow and silly, but even more fun than the first.-HARRISON DENT

Manufacturer's Description

Sequel to the widely accled hit - Destroy All Humans! 2 takes the brand's irreverent Sci-Fi action gaming experience into the swinging sixties with all new game features, expanded open-world gameplay and co-op multiplayer. Crypto returns to take on the world of free love, the Cold War and other 60's era clichés, causing destruction around the globe with an upgraded arsenal of alien weaponry and enhanced mental abilities - battling a variety of enemies from secret agents and giant creatures, to Soviet Forces and ninja warriors.

• Destroy All Humans! 2 turns the tables on traditional sci-fi action games allowing gamers to play as the Alien and take on the most feared enemy in the galaxy mankind.
• Unleash massive destruction - Players have total freedom to destroy anything and manipulate everything in the world.
• Explore 5 open-world game environments from Bay City, to Albion, to Takoshima Island..
• Start new story missions without returning to the mothership or explore the open world with a huge variety of side missions relevant to the game's storyline.
• Co-Op multiplayer.
• Play in special two-player mini games like PK Tennis and more.
• New weapons, mental abilities and upgrades.
• Irreverent Personality Enjoy sidesplitting humour lampooning humanity and parodying the hallmarks of the sixties.
• Developed by Pandemic Studios creators of critically accled games Full Spectrum Warrior, Mercenaries and Star Wars Battlefront.