Destroy All Humans! 2

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Destroy All Humans! 2

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What do hippies, aliens and KGB agents have in common? They all play a part in Destroy All Humans! 2, the sequel to the popular alien shoot-em-up. I got my hands on a review copy of the game, and it seems to live up to its reputation as a quirky shooter with tons of humor. If you love blowing up hippies, this game is for you.

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The game starts out with the standard tutorial-style level where you play Crypto, the alien who is given tasks to accomplish. In order to sneak around undetected, Crypto can "body snatch" unsuspecting hippies for limited amounts of time. While you are in this mode, you can run around without being shot at by the police or KGB agents. Besides, there's something funny about watching a hippie-chick speaking with a Jack Nicholson accent. Really.

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The gameplay is in the style of GTA, where you get various "quests" from non player characters in an open world game. It's unlike GTA (and more like a traditional RPG) in that you carry on conversations by selecting different questions and topics. Sometimes this can border on tedious, depending on the writing and humor, but fortunately you can skip past most of it and get right to the destruction if you want to. The quests can chain together, like your standard RPG, where to fulfill one quest you often have to take care of something to please that character.

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There are many quests (reportedly 30 to 40 of them), but you also spend time performing mini-tasks to gain power ups and bases for your saucer. For example, the game has several tiki-god statues (I can't remember what they are called off the top of my head), but if you fulfill their request, you will get a new saucer base. In one instance, the statue indirectly asks you to clean up all the protest signs that hippies have littered his area with. Spend a couple of minutes levitating the signs away and the tiki guy gives you a new landing base. This is typical of the humor in the game. Some of it is a little bit not-funny, but for the most part it is pretty good compared to some of the other games I've played. What I liked most about it was blowing stuff up, and I think a lot of people would agree that is a lot of fun.


Pros:
-humor
-blowing stuff up is fun
-effects are excellent considering aging hardware
-character models are decent for an open-world game

Cons:
-voice acting not the best I've heard
-level designs are nothing exceptional
-dialogue, when it isn't funny, can be very tedious

Click here for more info on Destroy All Humans! 2
http://www.hypemakers.net/dah2/go/c/308/s/1865/u/1803
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Post by xXxCocoFangxXx »

Gren!! Where have you been?


You need to come here and post more often. =]
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Post by Grunt Rebel »

I played the demo and its pretty fun.
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Post by UntoldLegendxx »

yeah i got that game too it's pretty fun, you should play coop with someone that's fun too :D
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Post by Battery »

gren's my idol 8). well the game sounds very fgood, i heard the first wone was good to.
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Post by The_Hushed_Casket »

I played the first one, it was pretty entertaining. You just can't go wrong with a game where you play the alien invaders.
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Post by rossmum »

Hahaha, that's awesome. I heard the first one was win, I'll have to check this one out.

Nice to see you, Gren... post more. :P
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Post by MaestroMan »

Ugh, the first one first one was pretty fun when I got it, and I got a good laugh or two out of it , but this one sucks balls, its so unnessesary
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Post by Lotica »

It looks much more better than the first DAH! I really like the co-op option.
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Post by JK-47 »

rossmum wrote:
Nice to see you, Gren... post more. :P
That would be cool, but hes one of those people with lives :O


Destroy all humans never appealed to me, but when I saw the preview to the 2nd one I changed my ways :)
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Just because people go online doesn't mean that they don't have a life.
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Post by JK-47 »

xXxCocoFangxXx wrote:Just because people go online doesn't mean that they don't have a life.
I never said that....

The reason I said that is because we hardly ever see him on here. It was intended more as a joke, the whole "Get a life" thing is something that people who never do anything in a day that feel insecure about it say :P I mean hell, I was sick yesterday so all I did was watch all the Red vs Blue seasons....great time :D
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Post by {TLS} UPSman »

hilarious game. rented it. loved it. had to be slapped before i let it go...
i only have two things i absolutely hate about that game, and everything else is awesome.
1: say you pick a person up. THROW THEM 50 FEET INTO THE AIR! they splat onto the ground and, oh my god, whats this? no damage whatsoever?! laame!
2: pick up a car and smash it against someone. same as above. THAT WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS TO DO IN THE FIRST ONE! i mean who doesnt like to blow up a car, kill the drivers of course, and have the wreckage flying off 15 feet and crushing/killing two civilians?! that is entertainment right there!
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