Asterix & Obelix XXL 2: Mission: Las Vegum
2005 video game
Asterix & Obelix XXL 2: Mission: Las Vegum is a 2005 action-adventure game developed by Étranges Libellules and published by Atari for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 2. It is the sequel to Asterix & Obelix XXL (2003). The game, promoted as being the first ever video game parody, stars the French comic book characters Asterix and Obelix, and spoofs popular video game characters in the same fashion that the comics spoof historical characters and make many cultural references. One such example of this is the box art that has a resemblance to the one seen in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004).
A port for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable titled Asterix & Obelix XXL 2: Mission: Wifix was released in November 2006.
A remaster of the game was released in 2018. A sequel, Asterix & Obelix XXL 3: The Crystal Menhir, was released in 2019.
Plot
Julius Caesar, in another plan to conquer Gaul, builds a theme park called Las Vegum, a parody of Las Vegas, and place the Gauls in a human zoo for when he takes over the village. Getafix surprisingly swears loyalty to Caesar, and helps capture three other druids and force them to help empower his soldiers. Asterix and Obelix come to his rescue, with the aid of a Roman spy named Sam Shieffer (who previously appeared in the first game), a reference to Sam Fisher from the Splinter Cell series.
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