Destroy All Humans 2 (PS2, Xbox) Preview
Posted by Armando Rodriguez on 10.04.2006
Perhaps one of the best games that came out for the PS2 in the last three years or so is finally getting a sequel! But how is Destroy All Humans 2 shaping up? Read on!
The game begins where the last game ended: With Crypto-138 as the president of the United States in the 1960's. Too bad the Russians find out about the whole thing and send a bunch of KGB agents your way. This agents destroy the Mothership and start making life hell for our little alien. This is where the game starts, as he fends off wave after wave of KGB agents with the Mothership falling into pieces around him.
The controls here are more or less identical to those in Destroy All Humans!, but the devil's in the details, as usual. After fighting your way through the initial wave of KGB agents and police officers, you find a holographic version of Orthopox, your aide-de-camp and source of upgrades from the first game. Although the mothership has been destroyed, he lets spill that he managed to eject a number of new weapons and items from the ship before it was blown away, which you'll be able to find as you travel around the world. He'll also point you to alien beacons scattered around the planet, which are replicas of the ancient Furon god Arkvoodle. When you speak to them and complete the quests they give you, they'll convert to landing zones for your UFO and thus appear to be a kind of waypoint system; theoretically, you'll need to travel to a location on foot before being able to land there, thus forcing you to head through whatever challenges Pandemic sets up for you instead of merely flying over them.
Once you gain control of a Flying Saucer, the game becomes more freeform like the original. Your goal is to find ways to upgrade your technology. Unlike the first game, you will not collect DNA, but you'll have to find datacores that were ejected from the ship in order to unlock new weapons and Furotech cells to upgrade them at your saucer. These are, of course, scattered all around the areas in which you start, and since most of them are on rooftops or otherwise inaccessible places, you can't expect to wander around and find many of them right at the beginning of the game. There are also alien artifacts scattered around, which you'll use to unlock other "hidden goodies."
The reason you can't collect DNA at first is because the KGB has developed some sort of drug that eliminate the part of the human DNA that feeds Crypto and his race. They are dispersing this drug by using blimps and once you have advanced enough, you will be able to take down this blimps and return the game to it's DNA collecting ways. Collecting DNA will allow you to upgrade skills: For example, collecting six Cop DNAs will allow Crypto to body snatch cops at twice the regular speed and so on.
Destroy All Humans 2 looks to be expanding on the successful concept of the first game. We will keep you well informed on the progress of this long awaited title
