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33-505: Big Willy Unleashed takes place after Destroy All Humans! 2 and before Path of the Furon . This game is set during year 1975 (6 years after these events of Destroy All Humans! 2 ). Cryptosporidium 138 and his mentor, Orthopox 13, attempt to support the popularity of Big Willy, a fast food restaurant Orthopox owns. Pox reveals that the Big Willy food franchise is actually a scheme to dispose of

66-421: A GameCube title with good lighting and visual effects but blocky buildings and character models". 1UP also cited poor multiplayer, saying "multiplayer provides very little content, and what's provided is downright terrible". Regarding its place in the game's series, IGN stated that "it's still fun to go nuts with the anal probe gun, rip heads off of pedestrians with the giant arms of Big Willy, and chuckle at

99-567: 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

132-498: A game with huge open worlds and the plentiful side missions" and that the "game actually supersedes the original". The AI was criticized by TeamXbox , saying that "every enemy seems as brain dead as Crypto thinks they are". The Times gave it four stars out of five: "The tone is jocular, the script humorous and well acted by, among others, Little Britain’s Anthony Head". The Sydney Morning Herald gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and called it "a minor improvement over

165-649: A giant space worm to crawl around, eating nearby humans; and the Anti-Gravity Field, which creates a small point of high gravity, pulling anything nearby--including humans--into it before exploding. Destroy All Humans! 2 has a co-op multiplayer mode, so the player can play through the story mode, free roam, and play minigames--such as PK Tennis and Duel--all alongside a friend. Destroy All Humans! 2 received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic . GameZone stated that "the new weapons and body snatching ability just add more fun to

198-566: 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

231-521: 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

264-641: 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

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330-571: 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. 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

363-424: Is to protect Big Willy's restaurant and destroy Kluckin's Kitchen. In competitive mode the player must touch the beacons and kill each other. The player can play two areas in co-op and compete mode. Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic . Many critics criticized the game's graphics, with GameZone stating that "the game looks like

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429-473: The war to grind into his own food products and Crypto and Pox confront a traitorous Big Willy employee named Trahn, who turns out to be a double agent with Kluckin. After successfully completing several objectives, including killing Trahn, Crypto climbs inside the Big Willy mech and manages to defeat Kluckin in a robotic rock Vietmahlese temple god. However, upon defeating Kluckin, Pox claims that he's done with fast food. Though angered by Pox abruptly giving up on

462-453: The Big Willy fast food. Crypto finds them in the back of an alleyway; he kills all of them except for their leader, Mindy Peters, who manages to hide. She appears in front of Crypto, proclaiming that the Furons and the Big Willy franchise will be brought down. Attacking Crypto, she escapes. Pox informs Crypto that his weapons and jet pack are broken. He returns to the saucer and kills more of the roller blade girls. Afterwards, Crypto body snatches

495-645: 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

528-476: The Corncob King, the boyfriend to Mindy Peters. He meets her at a phone booth, after which he jumps out and electrocutes her. Finally, Pox orders Crypto to destroy all of Fairfield (except for his restaurant) to wipe all traces of their endeavors and head off to the next area. Pox brings Crypto to Fantasy Atoll , an Island located near Malaysia , as a tactic to beat Colonel Kluckin. There, Crypto meets Mr. Pork,

561-516: 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

594-466: The Soviet Moon base Solaris. Crypto can now body snatch humans, using them as a disguise. New weapons are unlocked by finding data cores ejected from the mothership before it was destroyed. New saucer landing points are unlocked by completing the challenges of the ancient Furon god Arkvoodle. The player is now able to call their saucer from an empty landing site in order to eliminate backtracking, and

627-600: The UFO can now cloak for limited periods of time. The Abducto Beam now actually abducts humans into the UFO for usage in the Gene Blender, which upgrades Crypto's abilities. In addition, the Jetpack now has a longer-lasting battery. Crypto also gains new abilities: the "Free Love" ability momentarily forces his victims to groove to psychedelic music, thus making them forget they saw him, and the "Mind Flash" ability mentally stuns everyone in

660-469: 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

693-464: The campy VO". Destroy All Humans! 2 Destroy All Humans! 2 is a 2006 action-adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ for PlayStation 2 and Xbox . The game is the sequel to Destroy All Humans! and the second installment in the Destroy All Humans! franchise. It also marks the final game in the series to be developed by Pandemic Studios , as

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726-558: The company was later acquired by Electronic Arts in 2007. A remake of the game, titled Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed , was initially released in August 2022. 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,

759-504: The damaged HoloPox Unit, Pox is then restored and wants revenge. Crypto hypnotizes Ratpoo, who jumps into the Atoll's active volcano while carrying Pork. To their surprise, Mr. Pork survives and attacks with the Hate Boat, a giant warship. After destroying the hate boat, Pox and Crypto go to Vietmahl to find Colonel Kluckin. In Vietmahl , Kluckin reveals that he has been gathering the corpses from

792-523: The destruction of the mothership. 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

825-518: The human bodies Crypto leaves lying around. Crypto and Pox are watching TV in Harbor City and happen upon the evening news. Bill Kincaid, a news reporter , announces that the Big Willy Corporation has opened that's five-hundredth restaurant , and that President Huffman has resigned, implying that Crypto gave up on controlling the american government . The news is suddenly interrupted by

858-408: The man who ran the island, and Ratpoo, his servant (both parody of Fantasy Island characters Mr. Roarke and Tatoo). Mr. Pork promises Pox a new body and Pox agrees. Crypto must find parts to build a new body, but it turns out to be a hoax and it blasts Pox somewhere on the other side of the island. Crypto finds the module broken. A Furon Customer Support Representative instructs Crypto on how to repair

891-497: The missing heiress named Patty Wurst (a parody of Patty Hearst ) using a pirated television signal to appear on the channel. She reveals that Big Willy is using human corpses to grind up and feed to the public and that a shipment of meat supply is going to dock at the Harbor to prove her case. Before Crypto kills Patty Wurst, in the new Big Willy mech, Pox figures out that his actual enemy is Colonel Kluckin (a parody of Colonel Sanders ),

924-628: The original, with just as many silly sci-fi shenanigans". The game sold over 340,000 copies and had a generated revenue of $ 13,000,000 in North America alone. A remake, Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed , was announced on September 17, 2021, for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 5 , and Xbox Series X/S . A multiplayer spin-off, titled Destroy All Humans! Clone Carnage was made available for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 , and Xbox One for players who pre-ordered Reprobed starting May 31, 2022. Review aggregator A review aggregator

957-416: The owner of a competing fast-food restaurant, and that he might be a threat to the Big Willy franchise. Pox sends Crypto to Fairfield in rural Kentucky , home of the new Big Willy restaurant, to see if he can find a lead to where Kluckin might be hiding. After Crypto lands, Pox notices that a group of roller blade girls skate out of the Big Willy restaurant holding a briefcase. Inside is the secret recipe for

990-450: The restaurant after just defeating Kluckin, Crypto gleefully takes the profits from the restaurant and tells Pox that he will make the business transactions from now on and that has an idea for the money that involves a " little town in Nevada ", as the both of them walk off into the distance. In Big Willy Unleashed the player can play co-operative and competitive . In co-operative the goal

1023-590: The same work. Many of these systems calculate an approximate average assessment, usually based on assigning a numeric value to each review related to its degree of positive rating of the work. Review aggregation sites have begun to have economic effects on the companies that create or manufacture items under review, especially in certain categories such as electronic games, which are expensive to purchase. Some companies have tied royalty payment rates and employee bonuses to aggregate scores, and stock prices have been seen to reflect ratings, as related to potential sales. It

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1056-450: 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". In Destroy All Humans! 2 , Crypto is able to go to San Francisco ( Bay City ), London ( Albion ), a Japanese island loosely based on Tokyo (Takoshima), Siberia ( Tunguska ), and

1089-568: The world for a brief period of time. There are 5 new weapons: the Dislocator, which shoots levitating purple disks that take targets with them; the Meteor Strike, which fires up to 3 meteors at the crosshairs; Gastro--the mother ship's former janitor who, like Pox, uploaded himself into a hologram--who shoots at nearby enemies before self-destructing; the Burrow Beast, which shoots out a lure for

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