Unfinished mess, but has its moments
The opening section of Paradiso has a Las Vegas theme. Immediately the visuals are horrifyingly poor; jagged edges, poor collision detection and clunky controls all add to the feeling this has been released unfinished. The next level, Sunnywood is even more appalling on the eyes. Sound can be awful, with characters repeating the same dialogue constantly, often occuring well after the subtitles appear on screen. Characters also walk through solid objects, and each other, which is never acceptable. Physics are a mess, despite a large section of the game being based on this. An early odd job requires Crypto to roll a meteorite to the destination. This becomes utterly infuriating when it violently rolls the opposite way. For the umpteenth time, and for no logical reason other than this element is utterly broken.
Crypto can use his flying saucer to travel around the map. Controls are marginally better, with the abducto ray providing some variation on harvesting DNA. However, the saucer can only land in approved 'landing zones', which makes navigation unnecessarily trying. The saucer and ray guns can be upgraded via the games archaic shop system, but affects gameplay little. Of Cryptos powers, the body snatching mechanic should be more diverse, and actually limits Cryptos abilities. It serves as a stealth mode, with capabilites limited to mind reading other humans. The ability to carjack vehicles would have given a quicker pace to travelling.
In spite of this, there are some amusing moments. An infiltration mission requires Crypto to body snatch a mafia don, who has to discover the password 'corned beef sandwich'! A dating game, where one of the contestants is being kept against their will, typifies the dark humour. Yet most of the missions are badly designed and require no thought whatsoever. Brainless and ugly, but occasionally fun.