Men in Black II: Alien Escape

Men in Black II: Alien Escape
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Genre(s): Third-person Shooter Action-Adventure Platform(s): PlayStation 2 Nintendo GameCube Release Date: PlayStation 2 NA: June 28, 2002 EU: July 19, 2002 Nintendo GameCube EU: February 7, 2003 NA: April 8, 2003 Developer(s): Infogrames Melbourne House Publisher(s): Infogrames Series: Men in Black

Men in Black II: Alien Escape is an action-adventure game developed by Infogrames Melbourne House and published by Infogrames, partially based on the film Men in Black II. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 in June 28, 2002 and received a GameCube port in April 8, 2003.

Bad Qualities

1. Agent J and Agent K don't feature the voices or likenesses of neither Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones, and the stand-ins do a poor job of substitution. They both play identically, so there is no difference on who you play as.
2. The game has very little to do with the movie, and the story the game does feature is quite forgettable with a cheesy script.
3. There are only six weapons in the whole game.
4. There are only 5 levels in the whole game which last about half an hour each, meaning the game can be beaten in a couple of hours.
5. Poor sound mixing; the voices and music were recorded at different volumes, so you'll have to turn up the volume of the voices to hear them over the loud music.
6. The gameplay is very repetitive. Most of the time you will be fighting the same aliens over and over again.
7. Stiff character animations.
8. The game can be really hard to play, especially in the first level.
9. The graphics look kinda muddy, even for PS2 standards.

Good Qualities

1. Easy to understand control scheme, despite being repetitive.
2. Your health bar also controls the power of your weapons, so if you have a lower health bar, your weapons will be weaker, which is a nice gameplay touch.
   • Additionally, there are upgrades to pick up after killing enemies which makes the weapons even more powerful.
3. Despite the muddy graphics, the GameCube version looks slightly better, but not by much.
4. This game, along with the 2001 PS1 game: Men in Black: The Series: Crashdown and the GBC games are more tolerable than the 1997 PS1 game and the 2012 Alien Crisis game.
5. The soundtrack is great, despite being repetitive.

Reception

The game received mixed-to-negative reviews, and the PS2 version's Metacritic score is 50.

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