Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed
Developer(s)Black Forest Games[lower-alpha 1]
Publisher(s)THQ Nordic
Director(s)
  • Adrian Goersch
  • Andreas Speer
  • Jean-Marc Haessig
Producer(s)
  • Ana Correa
  • Bernard Janssens
  • Dennis Schiefer
  • Jim Howard
Designer(s)
  • André Beccu
Programmer(s)Johannes Conradie
Artist(s)Eric Urocki
Writer(s)
  • Hans-Jörg Knabel
  • Maria Clevy
Composer(s)
SeriesDestroy All Humans!
EngineUnreal Engine 4
Platform(s)
ReleasePS5, Windows, Xbox Series X/S
30 August 2022
PS4, Xbox One
27 June 2023
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Black Forest Games and published by THQ Nordic. The game is a remake of the 2006 original game, the sequel to the remake of Destroy All Humans!, and the sixth installment in the Destroy All Humans! franchise.

In Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed, players assume the role of Crypto, as he travels to various locations around the world, including England, Russia, and the United States, in order to complete various missions and defeat human enemies. The game features a variety of weapons and abilities that players can use to defeat enemies, including the ability to mind control humans and use powerful alien technology.

Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 30 August 2022. A single player-only version of the game was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 27 June 2023.[1] It received mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

This game is set during the year 1969 (10 years after the original game) and begins with a Soviet KGB slide show meeting showing that the main character from Destroy All Humans!, Cryptosporidium-137, is suddenly deceased for unknown reasons. His clone, Cryptosporidium-138 (Crypto for short), made of more pure Furon DNA, is now taking his place and continuing to pose as the President of the United States. KGB intelligence reveals that Crypto-138 is the first and only Furon to have genitalia, referred to only as "The Package". Seeing the Furons as a threat to the Soviet Union, the KGB destroy the Furon mothership with a nuclear missile.[1]

Soon after, Crypto's new adventure begins. Not only must Crypto stop the KGB from preventing his and Pox's plans, he desires revenge for the destruction of the mothership.[2]: 8  Crypto's commander, Orthopox 13, downloaded his consciousness into a holographic unit (called a HoloPox Unit) just before he died. After saving Bay City from annihilation at the hands of the Soviets, Crypto discovers that the KGB have fled to Albion and promptly follows, where he meets Reginald Ponsonby-Smythe, the James Bond-esque head of M16 (a parody of MI6), and a rogue KGB agent named Natalya Ivanova, to whom Crypto is attracted. They discover that the KGB have created a type of spore that causes humans to mutate into monsters. Eventually, Ponsonby betrays Crypto, revealing he is the leader of the British branch of Majestic, Majestic Sector 16. After killing Ponsonby and puzzling over his cryptic reference that the Furons may not be the only aliens on Earth, Crypto learns that the KGB have a base on Takoshima Island.

Arriving in Takoshima, Crypto has to rescue a person that calls himself Dr. Go (a parody of Julius No) from the Black Ninjas and KGB. He provides access to the KGB base hidden in the island's volcano. Inside Crypto and Natalya are addressed by the mastermind behind the spore plot, Soviet Premier Milenkov (a parody of Ernst Stavro Blofeld). Milenkov shows a film clip of his men using spores on a Takoshimese intern, who transforms into a giant Godzilla-like monster called "Kojira". After defeating Kojira, Crypto follows Natalya to Tunguska, home of "Project Solaris". In the Soviet Union, Crypto discovers that another alien race has crash-landed on Earth, The Blisk. The Blisk are an enemy that the Furons had thought they had wiped out during the Martian War a long time ago. Pox realizes that the Tunguska event of 1908 was actually a downed Blisk warship crash-landing into the Tunguskan hillside and not a meteorite. After destroying the crashed Blisk warship and rescuing Natalya from a Blisk gas bubble, Crypto meets Milenkov face to face. Milenkov then retreats to his Moon base, Solaris, in a Blisk shuttle.

On the Moon, Crypto discovers that Project Solaris is a Blisk superweapon designed to bombard the Earth with Blisk spores and radiation, granting the Blisk control of Earth as their new irradiated, water-logged homeworld. Using his ability to "body snatch", Crypto disguises himself as Soviet cosmonaut Leonid, the head scientist on the Moon, and convinces the rest of the humans to go to war with the Blisk. Then Crypto manages to sabotage the weapon's firing mechanism. Upon doing so, Milenkov confronts Crypto. He then reveals that ever since the Blisk crashed, they have been controlling the Government of the Soviet Union, each Premier before him had been a Blisk, and they were responsible for several world crises; including the Cold War. After their conversation, Milenkov leaves. Crypto and Natalya battle for their various species to save the Earth by attacking and successfully destroying the Blisk Hive Mind with the O.M.G.W.T.F. virus Pox developed in his lab, but Milenkov appears and fatally shoots Natalya in the back. He then reveals his true form, a heavily armored blisk. After defeating Milenkov, Crypto relaxes in his flying saucer while Pox appears on the video monitor, congratulating Crypto and eagerly anticipating his newly cloned body. He has detected activity in the emergency cloning lab. He questions Crypto about it, then realizes that Crypto has cloned Natalya, and is extremely infuriated by this and begins yelling at him, just before Crypto abruptly shuts off the video monitor mid-sentence. Lying next to him, Natalya awakens briefly and favors Crypto with a smile and an invitation to wake her when he's ready for "re-entry". As the game ends, Crypto leers at the player and admits to having made "a few adjustments".

Gameplay

Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed is played from a third-person perspective. It is an action-adventure game that involves both shooting and stealth elements. As players progress throughout the game, new weapons, new abilities, better stats, and access to new vehicles are unlocked.[2] The game is set across five locations: Bay City, Albion, Takoshima, Tunguska, and the Solaris moon base (some of which are parodies of real-life locations such as San Francisco, London, and Tokyo). Several of these locations have been expanded in size from the original game, adding new areas to explore.[3]

The game's campaign is fully playable in both single-player and two-player local split-screen co-op.[4]

Release

Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 30 August 2022.[5][6] The game launched with a physical collector's edition, entitled the Second Coming Edition, limited to 3,700 copies.[7] A single-player only version of the game was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 27 June 2023.[8]

Reception

Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.[17]

IGN gave the game 6/10, writing that "Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed does a fine job of updating the 2006 original to look like a modern game, but that game was a fairly unambitious sequel that didn't do much to evolve its gameplay...by and large it's more of the same B-movie sci-fi homage without a lot of brain-popping new ideas."[14]

Notes

  1. ↑ Original game developed by Pandemic Studios

References

  1. ↑ "Destroy All Humans! 2 Reprobed headed to PS4, Xbox One without multiplayer". Eurogamer.net. 12 April 2023.
  2. ↑ Irorita, Franz Christian (August 28, 2022). "Destroy All Humans 2 Reprobed Release Date, Story, Gameplay, Features, and Pre-Order Bonuses". ClutchPoints. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  3. ↑ Morales, Adrian (July 26, 2022). "Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed Shows Off the Locations Players Will Explore in the Game". Game Rant. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  4. ↑ Romano, Sal (July 5, 2022). "Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed 'Co-Op' trailer". Gematsu. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  5. ↑ Esposito, John (August 12, 2022). "Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed Debuts New Gameplay Trailer During THQ Nordic Showcase". Game Rant. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  6. ↑ Maddison, Lewis (July 29, 2022). "New Locations Trailer For DESTROY ALL HUMANS! 2 - REPROBED". GameTyrant. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  7. ↑ Parijat, Shubhankar (June 9, 2022). "Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed's Limited Edition Costs a Whopping $400, and There's Just 3700 of Them". GamingBolt. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  8. ↑ Romano, Sal (April 11, 2023). "Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed Single Player coming to PS4, Xbox One on 27th June 2023". Gematsu. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed for PC Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed for PlayStation 5 Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed for Xbox Series X Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  12. ↑ Handley, Zoey (September 4, 2022). "Review: Destroy All Humans 2 Reprobed". Destructoid. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
  13. ↑ Shive, Chris (August 26, 2022). "Review: Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  14. 1 2 Stapleton, Dan (August 26, 2022). "Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed Review". IGN. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  15. ↑ Cook, Adam (August 26, 2022). "'Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed' review: old fashioned alien antics". NME. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  16. ↑ McCormick, John Cal (August 26, 2022). "Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed Review (PS5)". Push Square. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  17. ↑ "Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed". www.metacritic.com. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
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