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 gun 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
