Above such intersections are symbols giving you an idea of what's that way - red crosses lead to trouble, while green circles show the "proper" path through the levels, and pink question marks denote secret areas, where you can find collectables and such.
Sometimes you'll come to branching part of the corridor, and depending on which lane you find yourself in, you'll end up going a different way. After a time running along identical looking corridors, you'll come to a room filled with aliens (the toad-like Incurseans if you're interested) spoiling for a fight - clear out all the bad guys and it's back on the road again, running to the next room. Along the way, you'll come across various obstacles which require Ben's alien special abilities to get past - all you have to do is press the right button on the controller in time to switch to the right transformation. Essentially turning the game into an infinite runner, in the vein of mobile smash Temple Run, you actually have very little control over your character - all you have to do is choose which "path" they should be running down (either at the left, right, or in the middle of the screen), and jump at the right time.
While the first Omniverse was a co-op platformer in the vein of the LEGO games (and therefore, at least fun in short bursts), Omniverse 2 instead takes the series on a hugely different, and much more low budget path.
What may be of interest to fans of the series is that the game marks the video game debuts of two of Ben's alien forms - Bullfrag, a newbie and the result of feeding the Omnitrix some newly acquired Incursean DNA and Astrodactyl, the freaky glider/dinosaur hybrid.īut sadly, while minimal effort seems to have been put into the storyline, the same can be said for the rest of the game, too. Essentially revolving around Ben Tennyson, a teenager that can transform in a myriad of creatures, and his little alien friend Azmuth, who need to save planet Earth from the frog-like Incurseans who've enslaved humanity, as, following the events of the last game, they assumed Ben was dead, the tale is pretty much irrelevant to the action anyway.
Beyond a short cutscene at the start and end of each level that usually involves beating someone up, there's little else that even attempts at telling a story - at least, for those of us not as clued up on the TV show as we should be. Written by the writers of the popular Cartoon Network TV show, we're assured there is a story tying Ben 10 Omniverse 2 together, but in all honesty, you'd be hard pushed to find it. The Omnitrix is on her waist.At least it's fairly colourful, we suppose.