Vectorman 2
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| Developer(s) | BlueSky Software |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Designer(s) | John Abad Marty Davis Keith R. Freiheit Jerry Huber Rick Randolph Rick Schmitz Ron Thompson Thi Truong Jason Weesner Dok Whitson |
| Platform(s) | Mega Drive/Genesis |
| Release date |  November 15, 1996 |
| Genre(s) | Run and gun |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Kids to Adults (K-A) |
| Media | Cartridge |
Vectorman 2 is a run and gun video game created by Sega and Bluesky Software in 1996 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis system. It is the sequel to the popular game Vectorman, released the previous year. This game was only released in the United States. The game is also a part of the Sega Genesis Collection for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable and Sonic Gems Collection for the Gamecube.Although this game takes place where the original left off, Vectorman has a more mechanical sounding voice in this sequel, whereas in the original game, he had a more human sounding voice. Vectorman's "Chicken, fight like a robot!" line is a reference to the arcade classic Berzerk, where that is one of the lines that Evil Otto says.
[edit] Story
After saving Earth from Warhead in the previous game, Vectorman's sludge barge ship ends up as a target for a missile and he parachutes in a planet to battle with the Earth's multitudinous enemy; mutant insects. Now it's up to Vectorman to fight through the mutant bugs and find the most fearsome source of who led the mutant insects and the planet: the evil Black Widow Queen.
[edit] Gameplay
The gameplay is similar to the previous game. Vectorman has a different set of weapons, including a pulse beam, energy shot, and supershot guns. Vectorman can also now transform into insect forms such as a fire ant, a rhino, and "shield bug" that repels attacks. Unlike the prequel, the full-level transformations featured in this game are not used to combat bosses as that is left to the human-form Vectorman. There are 22 levels divided into 7 parts in all.
[edit] Sequels
A Vectorman game for the Sony PlayStation 2 was announced, but was soon cancelled. Character art for the redesigned Vectorman looked very similar to Halo's Master Chief. According to initial reports, it was to have been vastly dissimilar to the 16-bit games.
Sonic Gems Collection has both Vectorman 2 and its prequel as unlockable extras. This was also the first time that Vectorman 2 was available in Europe and Japan, as the original release never got there despite the release of the first game. Vectorman 2 can be unlocked by playing the compilation for at least 7 hours and playing Vectorman once.
Sega Genesis Collection (known outside North America as Sega Mega Drive Collection) also features Vectorman 2 and its prequel, this time as games available from the beginning.
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