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First REAL review.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: June 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I wouldn't even count that other review as anything other than a brainfart of a 12-year-old. Here's a real review, in depth.

DESTROY ALL HUMANS!

You play as Cryptosporodium-137, the 137th clone of the original Crypto. The Furon race ran across Earth on their way back from beating the hell outta the Martians and, well, messy details spared, each human has one strand of Furon DNA in them. They reproduce themselves by cloning, due to their utter lack of genetalia, but with each clone the DNA deteriorates, which is why Crypto likes to blow things up a bit too much.. Crypto-136 was sent to Earth to harvest brain stems to make fresh DNA with, but was shot down over Roswell. He was supposed to go to Rockwell, by the way. Pox, your commanding officer, (voiced by the guy who was Raz in Psychonauts and Zim in Invader ZIM) sends Crypto-137 to find his "brother" and collect more DNA. Soon you find that the Majestic (think Men in Black) had found 136, dissected him, and unlocked the Furon DNA in humans, giving them the Furons' psychic powers. This is as far as I've gotten in the story, so here is some other stuff.

POWERS: You have Psychokinesis (PK) to pick up and throw crap around. At first you can only pick up small objects, trash cans and such, but you can upgrade it to pick up cars, then tanks and robots (Majestic-made)

Also, Cortex Scan: you can read the minds of puny Earthlings. Mainly used to recover Concentration, used to power your.... well... powers.

HoloBob: Assume the identity of any Earthling. One part has you becoming the Mayor (who sounds a lot like Quimby from the Simpsons) and giving a speech about the recent rash of abductions, exploding buildings, and glowing cows. Remember, this is the 50's, so do what people did back then.. BLAME COMMUNISTS! I'm not sure if it has any effect on it, but from then on, they were convinced that Crypto was a "Midget Red"... You can also have conversations with people in this form. One example: A military Base. Assume the identity of a random soldier. Talk to the gate guard to try to get in. He won't let you... Cortex Scan him and you find out he's been sleeping on the job. Threaten to report him and he'll let you through.

WEAPONS: You gotta have some good ol' explosives!

Zap-O-Matic: Unlimited ammo, but rather weak... Can be upgraded to chain lightning to other humans.

Disentigrator Ray: Best weapon. Ammo-based, but extremely powerful. A few shots can even take out cars and tanks.

Ion Detonator: Basically a grenade Launcher, but you can choose when to detonate the shot.

Now that the basic plot, weapons, and powers are out of the way (I won't go into detail on the Ship.) I'll go to my review.

GRAPHICS: 8/10 - Really nice reflective surfaces and particle effects. Hardly any draw-in and you won't even notice it unless you're looking for it. Textures can be a bit bland, though.

SOUND: 10/10 - The sound is absolutely spot-on. Voice-overs for the various humans are hilarious, and excellent performances by the voiceactors of Pox and Crypto (sounds a bit like Jack Nicholson). Sound effects for the alien weaponry are exactly as you would expect.

GAMEPLAY: 9.5/10 - Very good controls, aiming is great, with no jerkiness or, god help you, auto-aim. It plays much like a 3rd person shooter on ground but... well... It's hard to describe how it controls in the ship, but it DOES control very very well. Stealth is well-implemented, and there are times when it is preferred. The AWARENESS meter is a very good idea, with WARNING, POLICE AWARENESS, MILITARY AWARENESS, then MAJESTIC AWARENESS. You can guess what these all mean. Crypto uses a regenerating shield system similar to that of Halo2 (no health, just shield) that works very well. It takes about 15 seconds of not being hit to recharge, which isn't unfair, but it doesn't make you invincible.

OVERALL: 9.75/10 - Definitely worth buying. Hopefully, years from now, people will look on this game with the same reverence of Splinter Cell, Mario, Sonic, Halo, and Grand Theft Auto. By then they'll have forgotten about Psychonauts. *tear*

Destory All Humans

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In Destroy All Humans, you play as Crypto the alien, on a mission for the Furon empire to extract DNA from human brain stems and eventually "Destory all humans." The story takes place in America in the 1950s, with many of the b-movie cliches that follow.

You begin as Crypto-137, the 137th clone, and each time you die a new clone is activated, giving you unlimited lives, the game takes place on foot and in your ship, each with four weapons, plus telekinesis on the ground. Their are six cities that you jump around to for different missions, and after you complete the mission objectives you can roam the city collecting brain stems, and doing "Time Trial missions," for extra DNA, used to purchase upgrades on your weapons and ship.

The basic gameplay and controls are fairly simple, feeling much like the GTA series, personally I feel the game is a little short, but the graphic though a little childish looking, feel right, the soundtrack is a sort remixed 50s track, and fairly decent voice-over with some funny jokes that parody early alien films. Overall it is a great game, simple enough, but with a few missions that took me about 15 clones. And when I finished the game I was only about 60% complete, so the secret collecting and time trials are a fairly large part of the game.

Overall I give the game a 6 out of 10.

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.

Adult Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off, I just started the game today and have yet to finish it so this is really a preliminary review. So far I am really enjoying the game, it is a fun, silly and very juvenile romp making fun of the early sci-fi B movies. It is also a political satire poking fun at cold war America. However, the T for teen rating is very misleading. Depending an the age and maturity of your teen parents may want to think twice about purchasing this game. Characters use strong language, such as "ass" when referring to others and some of the themes may be inappropriate. Characters make numerous sexual references, some female characters exclaim "hurry up boys, my biological clock is ticking," "I'm going commando" (referring to a lack of underwear) and characters of both genders intimate homosexual / lesbian tendencies. Additionally, the player has a weapon called an "anal probe." Ultimately, I am enjoying this game but I am an adult, parents should be aware of this rather mature content prior to purchasing this game. Bottom line, this game should have an M rating instead of a T rating.

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.

Destroy All Humans is a Killer Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best new games that has come out in awhile! There are tons of landscapes to discovery. Cool missions. Awesome weapons and powers. And what kind of Alien game would it be without the anal probe gun and a wicked cool UFO to fly around in. Very fun and addictive. This game doesn't dissapoint!

Freakin' awesome!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Probably one of the best games iv'e ever played!!! Especially because you now have the point of view of the alien, and their story, rather than the human's point of view. Destroy all humans is the most creative game i have ever played!!!

Destroy All Humans Is Chaotic Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The whole point of this THQ and Pandemic feature, is to cause as much chaos as you can. You will have the best fun with Psychokenisis which is upgradableso you could pick up cars and tanks and robots. Yes I said robots. It will remind you of GTA, Mars Attacks, and all the B-grade si-fi movies of the 1950's. 5/5 and 10/10 and two thumbs way up!

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!!

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