History VideoGame / KKnD2

* ShoutOut: One of the exclusive units, you can obtain from vaults, is a silly looking TinCanRobot dubbed [[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951 Gort]].

* {{Retcon}}: In the first/previous game in either of the endings of the factions one is said to win against the other. But in this game both factions are said to have reached a stalemate and retreated to rebuild. Not to mention the arrival of the 3rd faction the Series 9 robots!

* CosmeticallyDifferentSides: Each faction may have completely different units and weapons but they are all equivalent to each other. There are small details that differ them a bit. See FactionCalculus below.

** One notable exception is the Scourge Demon, which has no direct counterpart in the other two armies.

* SinisterScythe: The Serie 9's Grim Reaper robot has ''3'' of these as it's front limbs.

* {{Retcon}}: In the first/previous game in either of the endings of the factions one is said to win against the other. But in this game both factions are said to have reached a stalemate and continue to fight. Not to mention the arrival of the 3rd faction the Series 9 robots!

* BeastOfBattle: As in the [[VideoGame/KrushKillNDestroy previous game]] Evolved's equivalent of vehicles are massive gun-toting animals. Namely Dire Wolf, War Mastodon and Death Hippo.

* ShoutOut: One of the exclusive units, you can obtain from vaults, is a silly looking TinCanRobot dubbed [[Literature/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill Gort]].

* GiantEnemyCrab: The Evolved's Missile Crab, a ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant missile-armed land crab]]''.

* AfterTheEnd

* Scenery Porn: Like the last game as the player fights through the map they will come across various destroyed buildings, vehicles and other structures sadly left behind because of the war.

%%* ZergRush: The computer's only method of winning.

* FactionCalculus: Thought its [[CosmeticallyDifferentSides a bit hard to spot the differences]], each factions differs from each other: The Survivors are Subversive, having particularly weak early units and access to Constructible turrets that grant special abilities like stealth and localized temporal anomaly. The Evolved are Balanced, generally not being flashy and having the ability to create a special kind of unit that is effective against everything. The Series 9 is the Powerhouse, their units being considerably tougher than their counterparts.

* SpiderTank: The Series 9's two top-tier ground vehicles: the Cauteriser, which actually has eight legs and is armed with a lightning gun, and the [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reaper]], a seven-legged monstrosity armed with [[MoreDakka dual heavy machineguns]] and three of it's legs being ''scythes''.

* SchizoTech: Although the Evolved has since degraded into a traditional tribal society and make heavy use of tamed beasts, they still have a nice collection of modern weapons. This includes explosive-tipped arrows, [[GatlingGood gatling guns]] mounted on the back of hippos, [[DeathFromAbove bomb-dropping giant wasps]], mutants armed with bazookas, anti-air rocket towers and even ''[[CrazyAwesome missile armed giant land crabs]]''.

* VeteranUnit: Units will gain XP by attacking units which will change the border of their LifeMeter from Gray to Blue and finally Red. Veteran Units will shoot faster and with better accuracy. And an exclusive bonus for Veteran Infantry is RegeneratingHealth.

* ZergRush: The computer's only method of winning.

''[=KKnD2=]: Krossfire'' is the sequel to ''VideoGame/KrushKillNDestroy'' (''[=KKnD=]'') released on October 31, 1998. It is set 2179, 100 years after the World Nuclear War. After spending another 4 decades underground, hiding from the first loss against the Evolved, the Survivors rose up to a new enemy: the Series 9. The Series 9 robots are machines that have advanced from their farming origins (having the original programming damaged by the nuclear radiation) and taken up arms against the humans, Evolved and Survivor, who destroyed their precious crops, their one and only reason for functioning.

* CommandAndConquerEconomy: Oil is this. You can harvest oil by deploying a derrick over the oil patch and get a tanker to collect the oil and deliver it to a power station for processing. Each faction also has two types of generators that are infinite in case the oil runs out but aren't as valuable (unless fully upgraded and built in numbers).

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The Series 9 went from being docile farming equipment to ''The Franchise/{{Terminator}}''. [[ExcusePlot All because of]] [[DisproportionateRetribution destroyed crops...]]

* TooAwesomeToUse: All of the Bunker Units save for maybe the transporter. They are hilariously powerful and can often massacre enemies within seconds. However they cannot be repaired, you usually get one (maybe two) per game and they die just like everything else. Because of this they're often assigned to guard duty.

'''''KKnD2: Krossfire''''' is the sequel to VideoGame/KrushKillNDestroy ([=KKnD=]) released on October 31, 1998. It is set 2179, 100 years after the World Nuclear War. After spending another 4 decades underground, hiding from the first loss against the Evolved, the Survivors rose up to a new enemy: the Series 9. The Series 9 robots are machines that have advanced from their farming origins (having the original programming damaged by the nuclear radiation) and taken up arms against the humans, Evolved and Survivor, who destroyed their precious crops, their one and only reason for functioning.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The Series 9 went from being docile farming equipment to ''TheTerminator''. [[ExcusePlot All because of]] [[DisproportionateRetribution destroyed crops...]]

** The various 'ancient' LostTechnology vaults can contain anything from an ''IndependenceDay''-styled UFO to one of those battery operated tin robots... with EyeBeams!