Well, I don't think a straight face was involved.
That said, I'm waffling on whether I want to get this game or not. I'm not a big shooter fan but played "Red Faction: Gueriella" for a bit and thought it was pretty cool, and I'm also a big fan of John Carpenter's "B" movies including one of his... underperforming, ones called "Ghosts Of Mars" which featured a then unknown Jason Statham. The style is differant (this is more like Aliens) but set up is almost identical, and I figured I might get into it even if I'm liable to be utter pants at it, especially multiplayer (to take a quip from Yahtzee).
The Mr. Toots thing however does have me wondering how serious this game is, or if it's supposed to be a giant genere send up.