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Aliens+Guns+Rag doll physics=fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Aliens. The easiest explanation for most unnatural events. If you think this game is about abductions (yawn) Crop circles(yawn) or fancy accel/deceleration shows(yawwwwwnnnn....) you are SADLY MISTAKEN! This game is self explanatory. Just as its name implies, you DESTROY ALL HUMANS! by using a myriad of upgradeable guns, telekinesis, and alien technology, you collect DNA (by popping heads-not as gross as it sounds), and plot the destruction of mankind. You play as Crypto (short for Cryptosporidium 136), a member of an alien race called the Furons, led by supergenius Pox (Voiced by Richard Horvitz from Invader Zim, another memorable alien), who informs you that the furons, who use cloning to live forever, have DNA that is becoming degraded with each new clone. He send you to Earth not only to obtain the precious DNA, but also to find your predecessor, Crypto 135, who has been captured by the humans. Which leads you on a crazy ride through an exaggerated american society, while disintegrate, decapitate, electrocute, and atomize the pathetic populace with huge alien guns (Among which is the infamous Anal Probe). No real point after finishing the game, but hypnotizing a cow into doing the chicken dance is funny enough to keep me playing. Plus, a great rag doll physics engine makes sure to keep you entertained while tossing the humans to death with telekinesis, or bludgeoning them with a car. Very funny. A great buy.

be the end of the human race!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: July 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Imagine your self in a playground with all your friends, then suddenly the school bully come sand knocks you down, if that isn't enough he starts calling you names. While he's walking away you pull out your disintegrator ray and... well you know what happens next. That would be every child's fantasy well in the game Destroy All Humans ® this is exactly what you get to do. So grab your Zap-O-Matic because we going on a ride.

When Destroy All Humans ® first begins you learn that your brother (clone) cryptosporidium 135's signal was lost on an ancient planet known as Earth. Your superior orthropox sends you to the planet to find your brother as well as take over the planet as a territory of the Furon Empire. You find that this is not as easy as you thought it would be as the human military might makes a final push. As you take over the area known as Turnipseed farm, you find that there area other human colonies on the planet. Maybe taking over this planet might take awhile.

To take over Earth Pox has given you an arsenal of weapons that will be unlocked over time. Your first weapon that is given to you is the Zap-o-matic a weapon the has an unending battery. This weapon electrocutes your enemies to death. Probably the most astonishing weapon in your arsenal is the disintegrating ray. This weapon runs on ammo but a few direct hits do a human being will turn the into a pile of dust. Pox also gives you the saucer but only when he sees fit. When you begin the saucer has two weapons the death ray, and the abductor ray. The death ray unleashes a deadly beam that will set anything ablaze instantly. The abductor ray picks up cars and people allowing you to fling them wherever you see fit.

If you feel the urge to disintegrate someone or set a house ablaze with your saucer. I highly recommend this game. For forty- nine ninety-nine this game is worth the money.

destroy all humans is sweet

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Destroy all humans was like gta mixed with war of the worlds.The game had a good idea of being an alien invader but the lack of weapons pissed me off. on the plus side you get to fly a saucer with its own weapons that do some major damage.the telekinesis had some easy controls and was fun to mess around with.the graphics are good but The best part was the destructible environment if you see it you can blow it up. overall it was a good game with a simple storyline they just needed to put a few more weapons.

MUST HARVEST BRAINS!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Everyone is going to compare this to Grand Theft Auto, which is only fair since that's the game that launched this type of free roaming, anti-social gameplay. I've never been a big fan of GT, though I'll admit it was revolutionary. And DAH has all GT's strengths and weaknesses, for better or worse.

What makes this game more fun (for me anyway) is the 50s sci-fi theme. In GT, you're just a thug. In DAH, you're still a thug, only this time you're an alien thug bent on conquering earth. Somehow, blowing up cars and disintegrating people is just more palatable for me because of your alien nature.

What I love most about this game is the psychic powers. It's just so freaking awesome to lift a pesky cop car in the air and hurl it into the horizon. Or hypnotize a human to perform a little distraction while I telekinetically steal away one human, float them over a house to a nice, quiet spot, and steal their brains.

DAH does have flaws. The graphics can occasionally be a little choppy, and there aren't nearly enough minimissions. But the main missions are fun and diverse, ranging from all out destruction from your flying saucer to sneaky infiltration of Area 42. I wish there were more weapons and more reasons to climb into your saucer. And I just don't care about searching every nook and cranny for the damn probes, which is thankfully optional.

Still, I've had it for a few days and I'm still enjoying the heck out of it. If you like aliens, old fashioned sci fi, or just wreaking havoc, then this is the game for you.

Destroys the Competition

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've played about two-thirds way through this game and I must say it's a blast, no pun intended. It's so much fun and the ability to freelance through the city and wreak havoc on the weak human race while not on a mission is a big bonus.

The graphics and the gameplay are perfect. The controls are simple. It took a little time to get used to lifting objects and throwing them, but after awhile it was pretty simple. It gets more challenging as you go further into the game. Those Men-In-Black type people will get on your last friggin' nerve, but it's cool to always have an enemy presence you know you want to avoid. Since it does not have a "save anywhere" or checkpoint throughout the missions, I gave it 4.9 stars.

The only thing I would've liked to see is red blood coming from humans instead of green. Also, it would've been nice to hear some hip 1950's music throughout the city while you destroy everything in sight.

One of the most fun games you'll ever play.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I haven't had this much playing a game in a long time. "Destroy All Humans" by THQ is a bonified cult classic for games. Yeah the themes have been done before but not to slapstick comedy of this magnitude. Seeing as the game is supposed to take place in the 50's during the paranoid McCarthy era, the mentality is still here in 2006 with the polarization going on this country.

You play as Crypto from the Furon race whose mission is to invade Earth. Crypto is a riot. He sounds just like Jack Nicholson actually (intentional).

As Crypto you find out about the human race, it's strength's and weakness and use that data for your advantage. As you progress through the game you realize that humanity isn't what it's cracked up to be. You learn that the government is brainwashing it's citizens, and of course the Furons can't have that because it's the Furons jobs to destroy humanity!!!! LOL

The graphics in this game are very good. While assuming a generally linear model, they made into a full fledged interactive experience. Crypto looks like a real alien, and his features are shown in terrific demeanor.

The explosions, laser blasts, and destruction that come from your flying saucer all Look marvelous darling, simply marvelous!!!!

The sound is equally enjoyable. Crypto has a long array of vocal dialogue. When you move around earth, you get to all the daily stupid jargon that people in the 50's might have talked about. Obviously some of it's exaggerated but it's still great how THQ was able to capture so much digitized speech here.

Controls are simply than even an idiot could grasp. You browse through the controls which include a zaptomic, anal probe, a flame thrower, detonators and other goodies. The fun really comes in when you upgrade Crypto and make him do incredible alien feasts like tossing tanks around with his psychic powers!!!

It's not the hardest game for sure but once you get into the military levels and destroy the army, airforce and other government goofballs that get in your way the game becomes pretty challenging.

After the game the PS2 comes loaded with special features. There is a good featurette which is a sort of mockumentary of course, a display of the game during the E3 expo, commentary by the THQ makers themselves and other goodies.

All in all this is a great game. If you haven't picked up this game, I'd highly suggest you do it.

Kitschy romp though 50s sci-fi is naughty fun, but lacks lasting appeal.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: August 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Earth (specifically America) in the 1950s looks pretty harmless from space in Destroy All Humans!, the latest third-person sci-fi shooter from THQ. Perhaps that's why the warlike Furon race has decided to invade the planet and enslave its human inhabitants.

It might also have something to do with collecting human DNA to revitalize the fading alien race, nearly cloned out of existence. Or maybe it has something to do with the Furon scout that was accidentally shot down over a military test site, sending his saucer crashing to the ground and his body into human captivity.

Whatever the reason (and it quickly ceases to matter), the people of Earth aren't going to stand idly by as aliens turn the Sun's third planet into an intergalactic war zone and genetic harvesting ground.

That's where you come in -- warring for the aliens, not the humans.

Players control Cryptosporidium, the sarcastic and mean Furon solider leading the invasion. Crypto (as he is affectionately called by his leader) uses a collection of weapons to collect human brains, fight off military and government agents, and generally cause havoc in the game's six invented American cities. Hand-held weapons like the Zap-o-matic (fires lightning bolt that electrify opponents), ion detonator (a kind of space grenade launcher) and an anal probe (somewhat self-explanatory) help Crypto kill humans and steal their brainstems for Furon use.

Psychokinetic powers allow Crypto to read and control minds, lift heavy objects and forcibly extract human cerebellums. Add to that a mean flying saucer with its own collection of weapons and you're looking at one potent invading force.

Along the way Crypto has to solve some minor puzzles -- such as impersonating a small-town major to convince locals that recent alien activity is actually the work of Soviet spies, or hypnotizing a T.V. personality to use his show as a method of massive mind control. But most of the gameplay focuses on steet-level battles between Crypto and human forces, or saucer-bound aerial assaults where buildings are destroyed, people are vaporized and cars are sent to the junk heap.

It's a fun premise, but while these battles -- both on the ground and in the air -- can be thrilling, they tend to get repetitive. Every building starts to look the same, all the humans explode in the same burst of flames and the thrill begins to wane. Add to that the unending quest for DNA (which allows you to buy the weapons upgrades necessary to advance in the game) and boring mini-missions (fly around the city or tip 10 cows before the clock runs out) and you've got a game that makes a great immediate impact but offers little replay appeal.

With his exaggerated top Jack Nicholson voice and unsympathetic view on the human race, Crypto makes a mean-spirited protagonist -- especially when he spends his time wandering the streets and vaporizing innocent people. But Crypto's bad behavior on Earth is likely to cause more concern than the stylized violence. He tosses cows into the air for fun. He hypnotizes a beauty pageant winner to bring her back to his ship and suggestively "probe" her. But his over-the-top one-liners ("Man I love the smell of Presidential brains in the morning") and old-school alien looks (bulbous head, massive almond-shaped eyes) make him more of an extreme caricature than a menace.

There is one unsettlingly realistic section of the game where players have the opportunity to destroy the White House, the Capitol Building and other familiar monuments that make up a digital model of Washington DC. Parents may want to think twice about buying Destroy All Humans! for kids who might find the destruction of such iconic structures unsettling, especially in a time when the threat of terrorism is putting everyone on edge.

Of course the humans all seem a bit clueless -- leaders bluster around spouting dated anti-Communist rhetoric and average folk reveal have all manner of unsavory subjects on their minds -- making their looming defeat a bit more palatable. Add to that great design lifted from cornball 1950 alien invasion movies (Plan 9 From Outer Space actually plays on a drive-in screen during one level) and you have a pretty playful and kitschy game experience. But, ultimately, it's all prety unsubstantial, especially considering the magnitude of the casualties.

Good idea, missing an ending

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As others have noted, this game has some good graphics and some interesting ideas in the beginning of the game -- neat weapons, hypnotized cows doing the chicken dance, etc. The first half of this game is great, as you get new weapons and new skills.

But the last half of this game is just tedious. No new weapons and the upgrades your leader does give you usually come just after they'd be useful to complete yet another mission. The missions get longer, and if you fail one, you have to sit through the whole mission setup again, flying down from the mothership, landing on the planet, listening to the leader ramble on about your objectives AGAIN, etc. Then you have to do the whole mission up to where you died and try again. This would not be so bad except that the game tends to create objects, including bad guy characters, out of nothing just a few feet away (turn back and they start firing on you). Or turn your back on the character you're following, and when you turn back again he may be halfway across the map -- and your mission declared a failure by the leader! Having to follow motorcades is just boring and there is no way to speed them up.

Many times I'd have a mission declared a failure and no reason given as to why, even though I was following all the objectives. The weapon upgrades earned by completing the later missions (no other way to get the upgrades) are not even that great in most cases.

My suggestion: play the first half of the game to get the most enjoyment from it, then move on to the next game. The ending is nothing unexpected and not worth the effort.

RENT FIRST, DO NOT BUY!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: June 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun and it is like GTA, but the problem is that you can finish the game pretty quick and there is no real incentive for replay. Also, finding all the drones is tedious and boring (as the other reviewer said); and they don't unlock anything useful to enhance gameplay - just artwork and movies - LAME! This game is not worth $50; it is only good for a rental.

Unleash your destructive desires

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Not since Grand Theft Auto as a player been able to unleash Hell on a town's citizens(here's hoping they're not sociopaths). For once, in Destroy All Humans, you play the usually-villain-role of martians, attacking Earth for once instead of some far off fictional world. There's moments where you think the game could've gone farther but does it ever get fun.

Story: The Furon race is starting to dwindle down thanks to the lack of genetalia. Not to mention the nuclear war they fought with the Martians. You play Crypto 137, the 137th clone of the original Crypto. Your goal is to go to Earth and extract human brains which happen to have Furon DNA in them. He also finds out what happened to Crypto 136 and a branch of the military called the Majestic.

Graphics: It's pretty funny that a lot of games lately always look "GTA-esque" but with this game, it's pretty hard not to think of it. The graphics have a more polished look than GTA and destroying buildings actually looks like destroying buildings.

Sound/Music: As that 1950's B-movie feel with saucer sounds having that weird whistling sound, your zap sounds for your guns and some great voice acting, including a Jack Nicholson-like main hero Crypto. The music understandably has that 50's soundtrack feel to it as well.

Gameplay: Your character's actions are separated into 2 camps: Psychokineses and your weapons. Your PK as it's called has 4 options: grab people, cows, and later on tanks and either send them into the air, crash them into the ground or give it a "push" and send them flying, even into other cars. Scan is where you replenish your PK and read their minds. Extract is where you use your mental powers to "explode" the people's head scanner's style(not as gory though) and collect their DNA. And Hypno is when you want to create a Distraction, send them to Sleep or other special actions for certain people like opening gates or starting a truck.

Your weapons for your on-foot missions are your Zap-o-Matic, an electricity shooting gun, your fan favorite Anal Probe where a powered up one will instantly kill a civilian, more for others and collect their DNA your Disintegration Ray which completely burns your victim but lose DNA and your which acts like a grenade. Your spaceship also has 4: a Death Ray, working like a heat laser, an Abduction Ray where you can grab people and vehicles and swing them around, a Sonic Boom acting like a bomb and your Disruptor which makes a very bigger boom.

The missions are basic "follow that guy/destroy those/get here in time" fare although there's some mini-games like destroying the town in a certain time, burning cows or going through checkpoints. Your weapons can be upgraded so you can shoot more people, more damage or more ammo.

For once we're allowed to destroy anything(besides trees oddly) and then go back to our normal lives and hopefully not be deviants. Politicians might go after the game but go ahead and get it and start annihilating some human ass.

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