Watch out when crossing the roads though as cars will knock Crypto's human disguise down, leaving him defenceless. In Bay City cars drive on the right and in Albion, they're on the left. There's even a risqué commentary by Orthopox and Crypto (and their highly talented voice actors) for the first game which is well worth viewing, even if half of it is bleeped out. Characters often break the fourth wall and also discuss the first game, which is nice for those that get the references. As before, you can read the minds and their inhabitants will always give you hints for your quests or random observations - even some amusing remarks about political or social events which are sure to make gamers smile. If they spy Crypto, most humans will simply bolt but some will loiter and murmur the oddest phrases ("It's a walking green vibrator!" being one of the more surreal). Some NPCs are vital to your mission, such as the oddly named Coyote Bongwater and the artistic hippie known only as The Freak, while others can be possessed, zapped, probed and vaporised just for getting in your way and - just like killing zombies in Dead Rising - it never gets boring. Humans can be hippies, urban, cops, army or even KGB and abducting members of each variety using your saucer will trigger upgrades using the Gene Blender. While the floating multicoloured flowers around their heads are a nice touch, there's also a hip tune which is going to have you grooving along with the entranced humans.Įach city is filled with its own varieties of hapless human fodder who are key to completing side missions and also in unlocking Crypto's psychic upgrades. It forces all the humans in the vicinity to groove on down for a few seconds, allowing for Crypto to sneak by or body-snatch a new piece of human clothing. Of all his new abilities, Free Love is the simplest but also most ingenious power in Crypto's psychic arsenal. But Crypto's psychic abilities have had a serious upgrade rather than holographically projecting himself as a human, our favourite Furon can now fully possess other people and even wipe their memories or induce Free Love. These and some new toys are gradually rediscovered as you progress through the game. Crypto comes equipped with numerous psychic abilities including psychokinesis, but many of his high-tech weapons were lost when the saucer crashed and have been scattered across the world. The gameplay is much the same as in the original. Each of these environments are much larger than in the previous game's, and there are some new additions including phones where you - in a human suit of course,- can make prank calls to the police or call off the fleets of bobbies or army personnel who are constantly on Crypto's tail. The game takes place in parodies of some of Earth's most famous cities, hippie central Bay City, the quintessentially British town Albion, Takoshima (which literally means Octopus Island and will make sense when you get there, I promise) and Tunguska, a place familiar to all X-Files fans. They shoot down the Furon saucer, leaving Crypto marooned and Pox dead (although still able to boss Crypto about from as a holographic projection). All should be well during the Summer of Love but the Russians have other ideas. Cryptosporidium-138 has been masquerading as the President and enjoying his new genitalia made from the finest Furon DNA while his brainy companion, Orthopox, watches from their saucer. They also needed the brainstems of humans which contain precious strands of Furon DNA to ensure the continuation of their race.Īs Crypto caused devastation though fifties America, where the inhabitants lived in terror of the Red Menace (that's the communists of Russia to you and me), you got to mutilate cows, abduct anyone who took your fancy, use psychic abilities to coerce or just murder innocent human fodder, and play with various toys including an anal probe, a flying saucer and a Disintegrator Ray which vaporised anyone and anything in its path.ĭestroy All Humans! 2 picks up ten years later during the swinging sixties. Destroy All Humans! was different it allowed you to play as Cryptosporidium-137 (who was named after a particularly nasty infection - do feel free to check Wikipedia for all the gory details), a member of the Grey-like Furon race who are hell-bent on the invasion of Earth. Aliens try to take over the world but in the end humans always win. I'm a sucker for science fiction, but after a while movies and games get predictable.
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