Once again, you reprise the role of Cryto Sporidium, only this go, he is masquerading as the President of the US, having been so successful in the last game. He has somehow been able to grow genitals and he's having the time of his life with the free-lovin' ladies of the 60's. However, the Soviet Union makes an assassination attempt on the Pres and also blows up his mothership, along with Pox, who manages to escape as a hologram to aid Crypto in his quest to find out what the hell is going on.
In addition to the main storyline and your objectives there, you'll also run across various little side quests. These side quests, while more fleshed out than the mindless ones of the last game which usually involved snatching the brains of X number of humans, etc., are deeper and more tiring, to be honest. One involves some ancient Furon sex-crazed god named Arkvoodle. His statues pop up from time to time and you have to do certain things to appease him. One involved terrifying as many humans as possible, raising the alert level to red. I figured, OK no problem. I've done this tons of times. So I run around wreaking undue amounts of havok, murdering policeman and army guys in front of people. Surely this will bring out the big guns and the Men in Black. But no. I ran around for some 20 minutes and I couldn't get it past orange. Why? Because apparently the game hadn't deemed my running about important enough. I had to step foot near an army fort before I raised the level to red. Stupid, because when I did set foot here, there was no one around to notice it, yet boom! I raised it to red then. Needless to say, this was my last mission for Arkvoodle.
Other missions involved fetch quests, running to and fro to speak with various people and often the same person over and over. Even having the scripted conversations where you have choices as to whether to play nice or be an ass weren't fun because you got the same outcome no matter what. I found the voice-overs for all of the main characters aside from Crypto to sound uninspired and somewhat annoying.
Although you are provided with 5 large areas to explore, such as the Bay City area, Japan, Britain and Tunguska, I just never really had the drive to move forward like I did with the first. I beat the first game as I really wanted to see the ending. Not so with the sequel.
Once again, you've got a lot of weapons at your disposal, like the trusty Zap-O-Matic, Disintegrator Ray and Anal Probe, but you've also got some new ones like Burrow Beast who burrows under a human, devours them and then looks for more prey. There's also Gastro, an angry little fella who blasts everything in sight to help you out until he runs out of power or is killed.
If you are spotted, of course, the alert level raises. However, you can use "free love" to make the humans around you dance like fools to some generic 60's tune and they forget all about you. A nice little getaway feature. Then, you can body-snatch someone undetected and this results in a "clean snatch". Did I mention this game is not for the kiddies? Crypto likes all things sex-related. If the alert level is high, you can also go to your nearest police station, use the phone outside and either call for back-up, call off the dogs or play a phone prank. This was fun once or twice for a laugh. There's also a multiplayer feature where a friend can jump in and play along with you, blasting humans as you both go, without any explanation for why a red version of you just jumped into the game. Eh.
