History VideoGame / Conduit2

''Conduit 2'' is the sequel to Creator/HighVoltageSoftware's UsefulNotes/NintendoWii FirstPersonShooter ''VideoGame/TheConduit''. Once again, the player is Michael Ford, a former Secret Service agent caught in the middle of an AlienInvasion set in the near future. Taking place immediately after the first game, Ford must travel around the world, engage in firefights against dueling alien factions, and try to wrest the fate of the Earth back from the BigBad and his supporters.

* DenserAndWackier: ''VideoGame/TheConduit'' was a first person shooter about a shadowy organization called The Trust, trying to usurp control of the United States government, and the invasion of Washington D.C. by an alien race known as the Drudge, where the main character is a surly, no nonsense government agent. ''VideoGame/Conduit2'' is a globe-hopping adventure, visiting locations ranging from Siberia to {{Atlantis}}, shooting not only humans and aliens, but at one point a giant sea monster, while the protagonist has become a wise guy voiced by Creator/JonStJohn. To drive the point home, the game concludes with a cutscene where [[spoiler:the protagonist travels to the moon, where Abraham Lincoln steps out of a portal wearing power armour]].

* DenserAndWackier: 'VideoGame/TheConduit'' was a first person shooter about a shadowy organization called The Trust, trying to usurp control of the United States government, and the invasion of Washington D.C. by an alien race known as the Drudge, where the main character is a surly, no nonsense government agent. ''VideoGame/Conduit2'' is a globe-hopping adventure, visiting locations ranging from Siberia to {{Atlantis}}, shooting not only humans and aliens, but at one point a giant sea monster, while the protagonist has become a wise guy voiced by Creator/JonStJohn. To drive the point home, the game concludes with a cutscene where [[spoiler:the protagonist travels to the moon, where Abraham Lincoln steps out of a portal wearing power armour]].

* BadassNormal: Ford is a OneManArmy who is [[HeartbrokenBadass out for revenge]], [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimated by his enemies]], wears CoolShades (although swaps them out with a helmet early on) and is [[BadassBaritone voiced by]] [[VideoGame/DukeNukem Jon St. John]].

** The beginning of the Siberia Crash level has Ford starting out in a cave with a wall he has to shoot out to get outside, just like how Samus Aran had to shoot several walls out in a cave tunnel to finally enter the arctic Phendrana Drifts on the planet Tallon IV in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime''.

* {{Shoutout}}: After beating the game, Andromeda reveals that the conduits are powered by blast processing, a reference to Sega's old Sonic the Hedgehog commercials.

* UnwinnableByDesign: After activating the penultimate primer on the Trust Platform and heading into the chamber below the one where you found it, you'll notice some explosive barrels. Unfortunately, the developers played a mean trick on you here and made shooting them a trap, because the ensuing explosion will block your only path forward with electrical currents. There is no safe way ahead and you will have to commit suicide, restart from the last checkpoint and make sure you do NOT shoot the barrels next time around.

* DemonicSpiders: The heavily armored Trust Advancers. They can only be killed with two headshots. One removes their helmet and the next will aerate their skull.

* PoweredArmor: Ford gets fitted for a set of Destroyer armor, and his ally Andromeda wears a full-body suit.

* DieChairDie: Plenty of boxes and [[EveryCarIsAPinto cars to shoot up]].

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* GameBreakingBug: The game initially shipped with a potentially fatal bug that occurs more than halfway into the first level, in which Ford can get stranded on a balcony of the oil rig after activating the third primer, making the game UnintentionallyUnwinnable [[EpicFail from the start]]. The only way the bug could be fixed was to connect your Wii to the internet to [[EverythingIsOnline download some patches that fixed the issue]]. Unfortunately, with online support for this game gone, your only hope of continuing may be to import a save that got past the first level, but if you have a Wii mini, ''you're totally screwed'', since it lacks internet connectivity and SD card importing.

* GameBreakingBug: The game initially shipped with a potentially fatal bug that occurs more than halfway into the first level, in which Ford can get stranded on a balcony of the oil rig after activating the third primer, making the game UnintentionallyUnwinnable [[EpicFail from the start]]. The only way the bug could be fixed was to connect your Wii to the internet to [[EverythingIsOnline download some patches that fixed the issue]]. Unfortunately, with online support for this game gone, it may be too late for newcomers to try this game out, especially for those who try to play it on a Wii mini, which is fully offline and does not accept save data imports.

* Shoutout: After beating the game, Andromeda reveals that the conduits are powered by blast processing, a reference to Sega's old Sonic the Hedgehog commercials.

* EnergyWeapon: The Carbonizer Mk16. Totally travels at the speed of light, so you don't have to do any leading.

* IKEAWeaponry: The Phase Rifle and Carbonizer Mk16 (though only in animation), definitely the Widowmaker turret.

* LightningGun: The Deatomizer [=Mk4=], TPC Launcher, and Carbonizer Mk16.

* OurWeaponsWillBeBoxyInTheFuture: Averted. The Carbonizer Mk16's very existence is in utter defiance of this trope.

* SceneryPorn: The Oil Rig level. High Voltage Software's Quantum3 engine really struts its stuff here.