I agree that nothing really captured the same atmosphere after AO, due to the more comical tone. Some of the natives' spirituality and the industrialists' sinister appearance were lost when every character started wise-cracking in the exact same way.
When I look at the Mudokons (in cutscenes) or Grubbs when they're speaking, they just seemed like wise-cracking aliens, not tribal cultures who's very way of life was being endangered. I'm not saying that the humour is bad, only that it ended up shifting the focus away from the story/atmosphere a bit too much for my liking.
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