2006 cult hit Destroy All Humans! 2 returns on Nintendo Switch 2

Crypto has found another planet to invade. Well, another console. Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed is now available on Nintendo Switch 2, bringing Black Forest Games’ remake of the 2006 alien action game to Nintendo’s newer hardware. The release includes the main campaign, local split-screen co-op and two DLC packs, giving Switch 2 owners the complete Reprobed package in one release. It’s hardly a quiet game. Crypto arrives armed with alien weapons, psychic tricks and a flying saucer capable of making a mess of entire streets. His mission starts with revenge, quickly grows into a globe-spanning hunt involving Soviet agents, strange experiments and several places loosely inspired by real locations. For anyone who missed Reprobed on PC, PlayStation or Xbox, this is another route into one of gaming’s stranger alien invasions.

Crypto’s second invasion gets a Switch 2 release

Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed takes place in 1969, around ten years after the events of the first game. Crypto is already established on Earth when the KGB destroys his mothership, leaving him with a fairly obvious reason to start chasing Soviet agents across the planet.

From there, the campaign moves through a series of open areas inspired by San Francisco, London, Japan and the Soviet Union. It doesn’t stay on Earth forever either, with part of the story heading to the Moon.

Each location serves as a playground for Crypto’s arsenal. He can throw people and objects using psychokinesis, disguise himself, steal bodies and use a collection of increasingly ridiculous alien weapons. His saucer handles the larger jobs, letting players fly above streets, attack buildings and move between sections of each map.

Reprobed keeps much of the structure from the original 2006 release, but rebuilds its presentation for newer hardware. Character models, environments, lighting and effects received major changes, and the controls were reworked to match modern third-person action games.

The result still plays very much like Destroy All Humans! rather than a complete reinvention. Missions mix combat, exploration and objective-based sections, with optional activities scattered across each area.

Japan, giant monsters and a trip to the Moon

One of the more memorable stops is Takoshima, a fictional Japanese island packed with exaggerated references to Japanese pop culture and monster films. Crypto eventually comes face to face with Kojira, a huge creature clearly built around the giant-monster cinema associated with Japan. It’s one of several moments where the series leans heavily into parody, using its late-1960s setting as material for missions, characters and visual jokes.

Reprobed’s campaign keeps moving after Takoshima, sending Crypto through more Soviet territory before taking the action away from Earth. This broader structure was one of the biggest changes introduced by Destroy All Humans! 2 when compared with its predecessor. The original Destroy All Humans! focused heavily on 1950s America. Its sequel widened the scope, switched to the late 1960s and gave Crypto a much larger collection of places to wreck.

Two DLC packs come included

The Switch 2 edition includes the Skin Pack and Challenge Accepted DLC. The Skin Pack is straightforward. It gives Crypto ten extra outfits plus four additional saucer designs. Among them are a tuxedo, a mankini and a unicorn-themed costume. They’re cosmetic extras, so they don’t change missions or combat.

Challenge Accepted adds more substantial content. It brings four challenge types into Reprobed: Rampage, Race, Armageddon and Abduction. These activities appear across six maps and support local split-screen play.

Local multiplayer is part of the main campaign too. A second player can join through split-screen co-op on the same system, making it possible to work through Crypto’s campaign with someone sitting beside you. There’s no online co-op mode here.

A remake of a PS2 and Xbox-era sequel

Destroy All Humans! first appeared in 2005, during an era packed with open-area action games built around chaos, weapons and destructible environments. Its central idea flipped the usual science-fiction setup. Instead of protecting Earth from invading aliens, players controlled the alien doing the invading. Crypto became the centre of the series, armed with strange weapons and psychic abilities used to terrorise humans, collect DNA and complete missions for the Furon Empire.

Destroy All Humans! 2 followed in 2006 and pushed the concept beyond its American setting. Black Forest Games later rebuilt the first game, releasing its remake in 2020 before turning its attention to the sequel.

Reprobed originally launched for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in August 2022. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions arrived in 2023 with a reduced single-player package. Nintendo Switch 2 now gets its own edition, complete with split-screen multiplayer and both DLC packs.

For players coming across Crypto for the first time, it’s a compact snapshot of a very particular kind of mid-2000s action game, rebuilt with newer visuals and controls. For anyone already familiar with the series, it’s the same globe-hopping invasion Reprobed brought to other platforms, now available on Nintendo’s latest system.

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Crypto’s second invasion gets a Switch 2 release

Japan, giant monsters and a trip to the Moon

Two DLC packs come included

A remake of a PS2 and Xbox-era sequel

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