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Rip-off

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: July 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is basically Otto Matic in reverse! Want to blast aliens? Play Otto Matic!

Seriously, this game is an Otto Matic ripoff. Pangea should sue!

This Game is Anti-Republican

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 44
Date: July 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game has decent graphics. Destroying building with your flying saucer is fun at first but gets tedious. The "stealth" based missions are frustrating. With no mission save points if you make a mistake, then you may find yourself forced to start the mission over.

The hardest flaw in the game for me to get over is the blatant pushing of liberal politics. It takes cheap shots at President George W. Bush with sayings like "I should have joined the Texas Air National Guard. Now that would be some easy duty." Both Nixon and Sen. Joe McCarthy are mocked. Communism is treated like an imaginary threat or a conspiracy theory. When you scan the brains of many pedistrian NPCs, they have homosexual thoughts. Who thinks that is fun? Who is the target audience here?

The developer is located in Australia. I think they have a flawed image of the United States of America. They certainly have little idea what is fun.

A disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I found this game to be boring and the graphics were not the best. If you like little green men, go for it.

funny and nice ideas... but not fun gameplay

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i'll make it short. the gamespot reviewer said destroy all humans wasn't good for its gameplay, and he was right. the idea of say, abducting someone and sucking out their brain is really cool, but in execution, it's just boring. the game does have a great sense of humor though.

I wouldn't even rent it.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After this game drop in price, I decided it was about time to buy it. Big mistake. At first, the game seems very fun and interesting. You're an alien sent to Earth to....you guessed it, destroy humans. During the killing, you "harvest" DNA, which you can trade in for up-grades on your personal abilities, weapons, and flying saucer. However, these up-grades don't translate into new, different weapons. They just mean more powerful existing weapons, which is kinda lame. And at first, these up-grades are inexpensive and easy to come-by. Then the up-grades become expensive and taxing on your DNA budget. So you have to do tedious, mundane harvesting to get these up-grades, which in upper levels are almost needed to destroy enemies and accomplish your objectives. And while we're talking about enemies, the ones in this game NEVER STOP COMING. Apparently, the government is involved in some cloning because the just keep coming, over, and over, and over, and over, and you see where I'm going with this. The game is entertaining, it just doesn't last that long. Fighting battles in your saucer is also difficult due to this. Rocket launchers and anti-aircraft installments just keep on coming back too, pounding the living crap outta you. And health and ammo recharges aren't the easiest things to come by. The sandbox setup (you can run around and do whatever) is kinda nice, but with so few weapons (4) and mental abilities (4) things get boring very quickly. I wouldn't recommend buying it, or renting it for that matter, but if your curiosity overwhelms you like mine did, rent it.

Pass

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: August 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I rented this and ended up just watching and not playing. The controls for this game are ALL backwards - press forward to see backward,etc. Which is kind of the reason I threw the remote in frusteration. It wasn't entertaining me enough to warrant my attention. Picking up and throwing cows to start with? That is beyond stupid! Wasn't the name "Destroy all HUMANS?" Whatever.
When you're not being dizzy, you DO get to do some fun things in the perky 50's era world. Throwing humans, reading their minds, occasionally hypnotizing them, zapping them. Be ready for the flame gun. Much time is spent extracting brain stems as well as going on missions. That's where it reminds me a bit of Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice... Chase people to find others, turn into a human and read thoughts to stay human - it runs out fast! Fly onto houses and buildings to cool down your wanted radar...Just be careful you don't take your eyes off your health and get trapped. Dead, it's a cover-up, and you have to start ALL the way from the beginnning of the level. Not hard, but annoying. Also the aliens are beyond ugly grey/green little monsters, so you're always being screamed at and shot at. Better than the latest GTA, but killer camera and a lot of stupidity. Perfect for younger males and the little rampaging boy at heart.
Me? I'm waiting for Jaws.

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.

one of the best games i own

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is probably the best in my ps2 library. it is however very short in witch u can get through it in about 10 hours. this game is quite fun and very colorful. i must say that u should get this game.

It's cool after the first five hours, but then it just gets boring!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are good, the sound is good, the humor is excellent, but to tell you people this game had a rock bottom replay value of nothing. After you've finished all the missions, all there is to do is to find the weird brain things, and after a while this can get quite frustrating. Also there is no challenge in this game, it's just mindless fun, and personally is for people who enjoy this game as much as spinning a pencil on a tabletop for hours on end. The jokes about President Bush are very funny, and so is all the rest of the humor in this game. Good for a few laughs, but after that it's just boring.

Simple action game, but doesn't really do much

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has an interesting concept. You're an alien, and you have to take over the country. You're named Crypto, and you accomplish this task through over twenty levels, spanning six areas. Each mission, with the exception of the last, is very short (i.e. less than 20 minutes). They are mostly in the form of a third person shooter, but sometimes require you take control of a flying saucer.

The gameplay mechanics are pretty simple. For the third person aspect, you have 4 total weapons, and a few telepathic powers (brainscan, lift objects, copy the form of a human). Most missions require you to get to some certain place. Often times you need to copy the form of a person and walk to the place. It's a little annoying, because you can't use weapons or pick up objects in a human form, and certain federal agents keep disrupting your human form (which, in latter missions, means you start the mission over). Afterwards, you just have to shoot people, protect, or destroy objects. Nothing radical or special here. The controls are really easy to master though.

For the saucer parts, you control a saucer that apparently can't go up or down. You use a few weapons to destroy certain things, and you can collect items to give you more ammo or heal your ship. Pretty simple, though standard fair.

This game, though, is very playable. The graphics are pretty good. The levels, though really small, offer some freedom of movement (everyone says GTA, but it's definitely not as large or as open). Except for the last level, you don't repeat or get stuck in one place for too long. It's a bit on the easy side in the beginning, and a bit annoying at the end, but the difficulty balance is pretty good. Also, the cutscenes and humor are both funny and relevant to today's politics. That's an added bonus.

However, there are numerious problems with this game. Many people somehow love this game, but unfortunately, I don't see it. First off, there are no mission saves or checkpoints. This is beyond lame. I don't like repeating stuff I already did. Even though missions are short, I still don't want to repeat 15 minutes of gameplay if I die in the end. At the end of the game, getting to the boss requires 20 minutes of gameplay. After dying a few times, I said forget this and used a cheat to finish the last 5 minutes. Secondly, this game doesn't offer much in terms of gameplay. Not much strategy or innovation involved. The shoot 'em up is really standard, and the stealth movement is annoying because it's just boring (take the shape of a human, scan a person, avoid federal agent, rinse, repeat). Finally, there is no fluidity or continuity. There are constant breaks in the action, as missions are small and repetitive, so that it is a major chore to sit and play this game for more than an hour straight.

All in all, it's not a bad game, but it really isn't that good of a game either.

Pros:
Good graphics
Good cut-scenes
Funny

Cons:
No misison saves, checkpoints
Short missions
No fluidity, continuity
No online, multiplayer, lasting qualities
Repetitive
Unoriginal gameplay mechanics.

Difficulty: Easy/Medium

Frustration Level: Low/Medium

Hours to Complete: 10 hours

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