User Reviews (21 - 31 of 84)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

It's Probin' Time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Humor drives this game, and that more than compensates for the somewhat repetitive nature of the missions. So it's important that you enjoy rather misanthropic humor if you play Destroy All Humans. Sound is the other important factor because, while the graphics are pretty good, the environment isn't very animated. So the sound really adds a lot to the overall experience.

I love this game because it cleverly parodies classic spaceman B movies, 1950's Americana, American UFO hysteria, government cover-ups, and a bunch of popular films and obscure references (including the Village People!). And it does so in a hilarious way. Even the theme song features that familiar spooky Theremin sound. It sounds obvious in hindsight, but the developers could have easily overlooked that precious Theremin sound! You can tell the developers had a blast creating this game throughout.

To me, the voices are fastastic. There's the alien leader, Pox, who sounds like a cross between The Simpson's Mr. Burns and a used car salesman. The main character, Crypto (who is re-cloned every time you get him killed) sounds like the hip pilot from the film Spaced Invaders, except that he shows an arrogant (and well justified) contempt for human stupidity. And the politicians sound much the mayor in The Simpsons, with no small resemblance to the Kennedys.

My favorite weapon is Psychokinesis (PK), which allows you to pick objects up with your mind and throw them around. In one mission I filled a swimming pool with humans this way, then went for a swim to see all the bodies piled at the bottom of the pool. You have to see it to realize how funny it is!

Watching the government explain the alien invasion in terms of "normal" events is a real hoot. The funniest scene of all has you disguised as the mayor, with a wide selection of rhetoric and propaganda available to help you manipulate the ignorant masses (I think they studied Hillary Clinton to develop this scene--seriously). Mowing down cityscapes with your death ray from the comfort of your UFO is also great fun--even while dodging tank fire, rockets, and helpless humans firing pistols at your UFO.

There are plenty of special features here as well, including B movies and a hilarious parody of the game-makers themselves that makes you wonder whether the game itself is just a diversion, part of a real alien conspiracy to conquer the planet....

The only thing I could improve here would be to increase the number of thoughts you hear when scanning people's minds. After a while, the same small set of thoughts gets repetitive. Yet, that's kind of the point of the alien invasion, isn't it--humans are simple-minded creatures who don't think too much. If that's all I heard while scanning another species' minds, I would probably want to open up a can of whoop a** on it just like Crypto does.

There is so much to like about this game. It's original, clever, funny, exciting, entertaining, satirical, and the gameplay is smooth. What more could you ask for? This has to be my favorite PS2 game so far. Highly recommended!

Destroy all Humans...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: July 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Destroy all Humans is a great game!!! Even though its short you can still go around and destroy everything in your flying U.F.O or on foot with your alien arsenal. You can kill anything and destroy everything!!! Its super fun. buy this game!!!!

An instant cult-classic but with some short fallings

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Destroy All Humans (hereon referred to as DAH) is a parody of the classic 50s B-movies. The story goes that the Furons, an advanced extraterrestrial race hungry for war lost their genitalia during a war with the Martians. To overcome this problem they have perfected the art of cloning but with every new clone their DNA grows more stagnant. Without some fresh DNA the Furons will die, they are already down to only about 2000 people. Luckily for them some Furon sailors landed on Earth eons ago and now in every human on the planet some Furon DNA is nested deep in their brains.

Cryptosporidium 136, Crypto for short, is a Furon scout and is sent down to Earth to harvest Furon DNA. Things go pear shaped though when we flies directly above a launching nuclear war-head and you start as Crypto 137. Your task is now two-fold, find Crypto 136 and harvest the Furon DNA from humanity.

DAH is mostly a 3rd-person shooter but it also has stealth and arcade shooter sections to break up the action. While the game is spread across 6 different levels each is completely free-roaming so while this is not GTA it does let you run rampant and getting from one side of a level to the other on foot would take a while. The 3rd person shooting sections, which comprise over half of the game, are very well done and nothing is more satisfying than disintegrating, ionizing and anal probing those pathetic humans. The stealth and arcade shooter sections do not fair so well though. The former is clunky because these sections are just take the form of a human, scan minds to keep the illusion up and avoid Majestic, and since Majestic randomly spawn a lot of these sections are hit and miss.

The UFO sections are better though but they suffer from a lack of diversity. You do feel like a superior military power but with only 4 weapons, two being similar and one having limited applications these sections feel like they either needed to be beefed up or cut completely. They do pickup though once you get over half way since by then the opposition is fiercer and your upgraded ship even more so.

The graphics in DAH are great. Most of the textures are highly detailed, the model and
animation of Crypto is spot on and the destruction of buildings is pretty cool too. Most of the enemies are good also but the random pedestrians you find walking around the streets are of only about 15 different types and are much less detailed than Crypto. The big problem with the graphics though is the draw-distance. With the game only running at 30FPS and nothing being too amazingly detailed you do wonder if they could not have raised the draw distance even a little since you will sometimes be able to stand right in front of something and have it appear one or two seconds later.

For the few short comings in the graphics the sound is brilliant. The voice acting is done with feeling, none of the dialogue will make you cringe (unless it intends to that is) and a lot of the voices are recognizable. For example Crypto sounds like Jack Nicholson and Orthopox (your commander and weapon supplier) has the same voice actor as the beloved Zim in the cartoon Invader Zim. The sound effects are fitting and never get annoying, the music fits perfectly with the 50s B-movie feel and the shear amount of voice work is incredible with every piece of dialogue whether in cut-scenes, mind scanning or screams for mercy being fully voice acted and done to a very high quality.

The length of DAH is really where it falls though. With only 21 missions, annoying little side missions on every level are all drawn from 4 different types and the collectible probes scattered about are like GTA secret packages but somehow even worse since there are almost 200 of them. The probes are used to unlock things in the archive section though and these extras are surprisingly good with my favourite being a Developer Darwinism movie showing the game from the very earliest version up one of the most recent.

In all DAH is a great game and is already a cult classic. Humour plays a big part in the appeal and uniqueness of this game and its done spot on. Whether its worth paying full price though is debatable but if you love aliens, rampant destruction or 50s B-movies then this game is at least worth a rental.

Destroy!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I got my game by Fed-X I was so shocked at how fast it came sence ordering it from amazon.com. I love this game so much this is 1,000 times better then GTA and you can enjoy giveing the annal probe. This game dose have some strong words but other than that I see no reason why anyone should not get this game.

Go for it and Destroy and enjoy it like I do.

How much fun can you have?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

At first i was sceptical about getting this game traded in an old one so i didn't have to pay full wack for it played it for a couple of hours and found the answer to the question above. How much fun can you have? Lots and lots of fun, the graphics are great it has that happy shiny 1950's America look to it that just seems bizarre for a game where the entire human race is doomed. Most games look grim as if the end of the world is nigh, problem is that the end of the world is nigh and is brought forth on 2 stumpy legs and a grey body. The action starts a little slow on the first level, kill a couple of rednecks read there minds maybe a little anal probing, but jump into your ship and, if you want, can level every building there while dodging surface to air missiles and anti-aircraft fire.

Through-out the whole game you get so much funny dialogue and references to the cold war and current events it's unbelievable i've scanned something live 450 people and they're still saying new stuff and with 5 levels with increasingly larger populations and threats there's a lot to be done.

I haven't even mentioned the weapons yet, the Zap-O-Matic gets those pesky monkey people jittering around, while the disintergrater has a cool Mars Attacks style burst in to flames leaving a charred skeleton effect. Then there's your psychokenesis abilities which starts of throwing people and can then be upgraded to throw cars, then tanks etc... that's right all those beefy weapons can be juiced up.

The only down side I can see with this is with the amount of things going on the draw distance is a little short and the game isn't overly long maybe 10 hours or so, but you can't stop going back and wasting some more people as it doesn't spoil it all that much at all. I'm sure that THQ will iron out these small problems and improve the game in general in the sequel, eh fella's (hint hint)

So what are you waiting for jump into your silver armour pull out your ionising grenades and show those monkey men and women what sentient beings really are way to go guys!!

Humans? Pah! Who needs 'em?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Everyone knows the trite plot: aliens come down from space with advanced technology, man seems doomed, unassuming hero manages to find loop-hole in said technology, humans defeat aliens, and all is well.

Thankfully that scenario has no place in the world of `Destroy All Humans!'.

In the game you play Cryptosporidium-137, an alien who is sent to Earth to, yes, destroy all humans. As you go around weakening the U.S. infrastructure to make the impending invasion easier, you're also on a hunt to find out what happened to your other clone, Cryptosporidium-136, who was captured during an earlier mission on Earth, as well as rip out some brains.
Brains, you ask. Well, after the Furons invaded Mars many eons ago, a few Furon soldiers came to Earth looking for, shall we say, `a good time'. Basically, now each human contains strands of Furon DNA locked in their genetic code - just the thing the Furon Empire needs to continue their long tradition of cloning their race (seeing as how they lack the ability to reproduce naturally).
And so, armed with your psychokinetic powers, a very big gun, your death ray equipped flying saucer, and a thirst for human carnage you're off.

The game is nothing short of brilliant in many facets. The developers made sure to make every aspect of the game not only interesting, but amazingly funny. The main characters of the story (Cryptosporidium as well as his `boss', Orthopox) are amazingly well written and voiced (fans of a certain cartoon about another alien who tries to take over the world may find a surprise in the voice acting). I found myself completing missions as soon as possible simply so I could hear continued banter between the two main characters.

Game play is based upon missions which need to be completed in certain towns. They vary from hijacking weapons to infiltrating human society. Each completed mission unlocks a new mission as well as upgrades and cinematics.
The game also features open-ended difficulty: based on how many humans see you, the alert level increases, bringing with each level more and more resistance: from citizens, the police, the military, and the secretive government agency known as the Majestic, you can choose whether to sneak through your assignments, or barge in with your guns firing.
Missions can take place from either the ground or the safety of your flying saucer, with each option offering a wide variety of destructive weapons as well as the freedom to land or take-off whenever you wish.

The plot aside, the game play does suffer from a lack of length. As soon as you feel that the game is picking up, it's over (in the words of Cryptosporidium "you mean no more blowing up stuff?"). However, whether the game was five hours or fifty thousand hours of game play, I feel that `Destroy All Humans!' offers a perfect touch of humor, plot, and game play that could have kept the game going much longer.
Repeat game play offers the opportunity to continued exploration of all areas, as well as unlock special movies (such as some class good-bad alien movies), behind-the-scenes developments from the `Destory All Humans!' team, and some of the game's cinematic moments.

Overall the game offers a breath of fresh air in a seemingly stale genre. Fans of science fiction, aliens, or anyone who just wants to cause a whole lot of destruction will have a good time with this game.
After all, how many times do you get to incinerate a bunch of humans, scientists, government officials, and some radioactive cows?

Hop in a UFO and destroy EARTH..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Destroy All Humans..

I've seen all the ads and tv commercials for Destroy All Humans and I automatically knew this game was going to be one of the best of 2005. I picked up my copy a few days after it was released for PS2, and begun playing it that same day. The character you play is: Cryptosporidium 137 who is sent to earth after another alien crashes and is caught, his mission is to save that alien and pretty much destroy anything in the way or anything you feel like destroying. I must be very honest when I say this, Destroy All Humans is an addicting game!! They play a mini movie at the beginning so you can understand the game better and see how the whole alien destroying humans begins. Its based in the 50's type scene, its like a sci-fi movie you get to control. You're pretty much free roaming but you can't go outside of the mission area or your boss will tell you to get back to the mission. There are plently of weapons to use to blow up cars and disintegrate any humans you come across, and destroy the military vehicles and soldiers when they come to check everything out. You also get to control the UFO which is pretty cool, you can use it to attack and burn down homes and other properties. The entire game is interesting and some parts are very funny. The graphics are really nice, they help you get into the game more. This game is really a hit.

http://www.hypemakers.net/dah/index.php?code=2803

another great game from the guys and gals at THQ

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is set in the 1950's so any fan of 1950's sci-fi will be very happy but even if u're not a huge fan there is plenty of enjoyment to be had.
You get to play as Crypto who is even cooler then ET and admit it people ET was a wuss!
You get to play with loads of cool gadgets and unlock more as u play through the game. the controls take a little bit of getting used to but once u do you be destroying humans like the best alien destroyer ever!!

Very well done.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The guy at the store recommended this, and I was a bit skeptical. I loved the cut scenes, and the
whole style of the game. If you are into the 1940-50s style retro horror film thing, then you
will love this game.
The humor is fun, and sarcastic. It IS however, more adult humor then you want your 8yr old
playing with. 15... maybe.
It's a chase camera (tomb raider, GTA, MGS, Hitman, etc) The controls are very simple, and
easy to get the hang of. There is a tutorial as you play.
The voice of one of the aliens you may recognize as ZIM!!! Yes! Invader Zim! And the humor
is on the same level as that cartoon.
There are the main missions, and then there are the Side missions. In each town you have these
probes you must find, and they are not easy to find. They do let you know how many are left,
though. There are also mini missions in each town, signaled by an orange beam from the sky.
The only problem I have with these, is that they are mostly the same in every town. They could
have made some different missions. They are mainly "Get 5 brains in 2 minutes", "Kill 12
civilians in 1 minute" "Race from one location to another" So.... a lot like Zim plying GTA.

They put a lot of different thoughts in the heads of the common folk for you to read, even
so, they get repetitive after a while. I'm sure they tried to come up with a lot, but when you
spend a lot of time as hollo-Bob you start hearing the same ones over and over. I think each
person you read, has about 4 thoughts.

Also, people you kill, respawn once you get outside shooting range of them. So don't think
you can clean sweep the whole town.

If you like this game, then you will like War of the Monsters PS2, and
Monsters Menace America (board game)

Best Game of this Year!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Since I was a little kid, I always rooted for the bad guy in the movies; especially alien movies. In Destroy All Humans! I get to play as the bad guy! It's this concept that makes it a superb and refreshing game. Ever since the 80's with the invention of Space Invaders, people have fought the alien menace. Now, that idea has been turned on its head and I love it! For the first time, you get to enjoy the smell of victory as an invading creature from beyond the stars! From the weapon and abilities to the mesmerizing level graphics, Destroy All Humans! is one of the most creative and colorful games on the market. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes mindless devastation and destruction!

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next 

Actions