Crypto is back, angrier than ever, ready to make humanity pay for what it did to his mothership.

On the gut pick, Destroy All Humans! 2 edges ahead of roughly a third of games. And yet, look at the desert island line: there it sits ahead of 83% of titles. That is the real surprise of this profile, and also its tension. Asked to choose on instinct, the community hesitates, but asked which game to take away for months, it grabs the little alien. The soundtrack holds up too, slightly above average. The rest sags: attachment lands dead center, while fun, controller feel, art style and the wish to rediscover it all fall below the middle. None of this is carved in stone, each criterion rests on three to six duels.

A satirical 2006 open world is bound to age on feel and visuals when it is judged against games from a whole other generation. But what it has, and few have, is tone: unapologetic sci-fi parody, dumb glorious humor, the freedom to wreck everything. That does not expire.

So, who is it for? For you if you love sandboxes that refuse to take themselves seriously, pastiche sci-fi and the idea of a game you keep coming back to. Much less so if you want gameplay that snaps by today's standards.