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GTA Roswell

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: June 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

To start off, I'm not a kid, I just lost my password. Anyways, Destroy All Humans! is an immensly fun game. It has a similar feel to GTA, but is much less gritty and seems almost a little cartoony with the ray guns to fry people. Though, the game is very open-ended and there are many ways to complete a mission. For example, a farmer sees you come up to his house and he gets the shotgun. You have the choice to fry him with your ray gun, hypnotize him, disguise yourself as him, get in your space ship to abduct him, use the space ship for a very powerful ray gun, or (my favorite) use telekenesis to throw something big at his house and make it explode (like a tractor). Overall, this game is a lot of fun and I highly suggest you buy it.

Adult Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: June 23, 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.

50's sci-fi

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. It's like being in a 50's scifi film.
Great music and the alien sounds like Jack Nicholson.
My 8 year old daughter loves it as well. If you love films like
invaders from mars etc.. you'll love the look and feel of this game.

Brainless Fun (with Brains!)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: June 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

"Destroy All Humans" is not exactly the deepest, most challenging, most thought-provoking game you'll play all year, unless you're about 5 and you've given up on "Monsters Inc." But if you're a "Teen" or above who's just looking for some brainless and effortless pick-up-and-play fun, Cryptosporidium-137 is your extraterrestrial.

(By the way, that green "blood" is for all you teens out there, as in "T" rating, so that you understand that it's just a game and you don't go to school the next day and try to anally extract your school chum's brains. Cuz if it was red, there goes the neighborhood. But as long as heads explode in a GREEN mass of goo in the game, no problem kids. And that's great, but I kind of wish they'd gone the whole 9, taken the "M" rating, and made this game as gruesome as it should've been, since it's already pretty marginal. When you've got freshly extracted brains bouncing around in the cornfields, they might as well be dripping with RED blood...lol.)

The graphics in DAH are decent as far as they go - especially the lovely ambient sunlight and rolling cloud effects - but they don't quite go all the way. You get the feeling that this title, like so many, was rushed into production. Much has already been said about the pop-in issue, and indeed, it's truly out of control. Bushes will grow out of the ground at distances of less than 10 virtual feet in front of Crypto, as if his alien presence favorably influences Earth vegetation. You really don't expect this sort of problem to this degree on XBOX. It won't necessarily interfere with gameplay since your weapons and psychic abilities have a limited range anyway, but it's pretty annoying and distracting.

The environments are fairly good-looking if you don't get too close. Certainly they do a nice job of suggesting the archetypal sunny pop-culture idea of the 50's - it's all very "Pleasantville." Some scenes on the farm almost look like Hidden Valley Ranch labels...lol. The people likewise look great from a distance, but up close they're as blocky and crudely mapped as anything in the GTAs on PS2. It's especially obvious in the cutscenes, in which you see how much they've relied on shading to suggest depth - some of the women appear to have 5 o'clock shadows. True, the levels are relatively large (although nowhere near as large as the smallest GTA), since you explore the same areas on foot and in saucer; so some fine detail has to be sacrificed. Still, XBOX is capable of better than this. Maybe it's a reflection of the fact that this game was developed for PS2 at the same time, and the builds probably aren't that different.

Gameplay is likewise relatively rude and crude. You'll never really have a problem staying alive unless you just aren't paying attention, since Crypto's life bar automatically recharges after a few seconds; so if he's about to die you just jet-pack away, find cover, and wait. The saucer doesn't automatically recharge, but you can find sheild boosters everywhere, and you can actually take damage beyond your saucer's life bar for some reason. For weapons Crypto starts off with a "Zap-O-Matic" and an Anal Probe (which, yes, literally goes up the humans' butts, which inexplicably makes their heads explode), and he gradually acquires new weapons and upgrades. The saucer starts off with a "Death Ray," which does indeed bring massive amounts of death, and an "Abducto Ray," which doesn't actually abduct, but just lifts people and things a few feet above the ground - great for picking up military convoys and slamming them into the sides of government buildings.

Crypto also has some standard "PK" (psychokinesis) abilities which are kind of fun, but nothing new (see "Psi-Ops"). He can lift objects with his mind and pitch them far away; he can read people's (and cows') thoughts and parasitically suck up their "concentration;" he can hypnotize people to create distractions or perform mission-specific tasks; he can assume the general shape of anybody he sees; and of course, he can pop heads like green pus-filled zits. There are a few caveats, but for the most part these abilities, his weapons and his jetpack place Crypto at such an advantage over all adversaries, it's never really a contest.

Not only that, but DAH is extremely short, so it would be hard for anybody to get more than 10 hours out of this. Once you finish all the missions, both mandatory and optional, all that's left is the easter egg hunt for the rest of the "probes" (different from the anal), and this could quickly get boring and tedious.

Still, don't get me wrong, I got this the day it came out, played it through and enjoyed it for what it was worth. But it's such a simple game that I can't say I'd necessarily recommend it to buy as opposed to rent. If you're an alien buff or 50's buff or you just like the pretty, almost-there graphics and fun if basic and repetitive gameplay, you might choose to buy. The game's sense of humor is another selling point, with it's "cute" parodies of 1950's pop-culture, which are often thinly veiled commentaries on modern day government-inspired paranoia and civic unrest (there are many obvious slams on the Bush Administration). I'll keep it around, cuz at the end of the day, after an hour in heavy traffic, who doesn't want to destroy some humans?

A delisciously evil game!

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

Pathetic humans! How true lol. This has got to be the best game iv ever played so far for Xbox, better than Halo! Some amazing features I loved most about this game is that you can actually fly your UFO, and the attention to detail, blew my mind. Weapon of choice you ask, the Quantum Deconstrutor. I mean, what kind of evil alien wouldnt want to level entire cities? This game really takes in essence the view of the little grey men from space and how they wanted to oblitorate us in the 50's. And with such a wide range of truly amazing weaponry, who wouldnt want to take a joyride vaporizing humans into piles of ash. If your someone who really needs to blow off some steam once in awhile, this is really a game for you. Or if your someone who just plays games to blow things up, still the game for you. Or if your a fan of old sci-fi movies, again, this is the game for you! Two thumbs up here, id raise up more but I only have one set.

THE BEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I waited sooo long for this game and it finally came out. The story is that the Furon empire was running out of DNA to make clone aliens to uphold their empire. So they send down one Cryptosporidium down to Earth to collect more DNA and save the Furons.
This game may seem like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, but its not. Its spawning a whole new generation of gaming. This basically is San Andreas take off the whole gangster crap thing, put in some funny aliens, great humor, and intense action. And you get Destroy All Humans! The missions never repeat themselves. Boss battles are soo intense. I ended up sweating. Parents, this game is completely suitable for kids too. This game just keeps sparking suprisies and new storylines to follow. As for me, im gonna go play now!

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is Grand Theft Auto meets Oddworld. The only thing I found a bit annoying is the lack of phrases when you scan the minds of the humans. Other than that the game is very funny, and a joy to play.

Fun for adults!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: June 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It's great how you can manipulate the humans, animals, and objects with your mental powers and flying saucer. I do agree with another review on here, that this game sould have gotten an "M" rating...there is some language, and sexual references that some parents may not be too comfortable with.

There is no easy, normal, difficult level selector, but the missions are relatively simple to complete. I do wish they would have used a larger variety of 'human' characters in the missions.

Overall good game!

so many brains, so little time.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: June 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played the game for 4 hrs. straight it is the most fun i've had in a while, I mean how cool is it too fly in a saucer and blow stuff up, it's crazy. You can also fly in a jetpack,pick things up with telekinesis(with your mind) and fling them every which way. This is also a cool game for fans of sci-fi movies and the late 50's. The main character looks like the arbiter from Halo, but his abilities are much,much,cooler, like hipnotize people,read there thoughts, and more. My favorite is the saucer personally, that thing is awesome. I give this game a 5.

Most original game of the year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: June 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Destroy all humans! is one of the most innovative games of the year, with a
unique perspective and destructible environments you will be addicted in no time.
DAH! is set in the 1950s and revolves around the accidental destruction of a
Furon scout ship by the US Army, this accident sparks an invasion force...of 2
Furons, Orthopox and Cryptosporidum-137.
You Play as Cryptosporidium-137, sent to earth to investigate the disappearance
of your previous clone Cryptosporidium-136. Your leader is Orthopox (voiced by
Richard Horvitz, the voice of Invader Zim from the cartoon series Invader Zim),
he provides you with missions, weapons and upgrades as well as funny
conversations and Intel.
Cryptosporidum has access to a variety of weapons, the most entertaining being
the disintegration gun which turns humans into gray ash skeletons that blow away
in the wind. Even better then your weapons are your mind powers, Crypto can use
telekinesis, telepathy, hypnotism and the strange ability to make a persons head
explode in order to harvest their brain. Crypto also has an interesting stealth
option, he can use a "HoloBob", a device that generates a holographic image over
Crypto enabling him to copy the appearance of targeted humans and move
undetected among his foes.
What alien invasion game would be complete without the ability to unleash
massive devastation from the air a saucer? DAH! has you covered with Crypto'smodifiable saucer! It comes standard with the high concentrated heat "Death Ray"
and an abduction beam, but as your progress you will unlock some more
entertaining weapons, namely the "Sonic Boom gun", a weapon that shoots a small
orb of sound that sends everything around it flying off into the air from the
shock wave.
The game play in DAH! is solid and the graphics are flawless, this game is
basically a more entertaining version of Pandemic's other popular title
"Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction", both games feature destructible
environments, except Mercenaries is a standard war game while DAH! is a unique,
one-of-a-kind alien invasion game. Levels have a variety of styles and
objectives, one of the most fun is when you are required to copy the appearance
of a small town mayor with your HoloBob and address the town in a meeting, you
are given a selection of topics and responses, each one is extremely funny and
well written
The game is divided into multiple invasion sites, each one with different
attributes and design, but all allow you to free roam the terrain after the
mission objectives are completed, there are hidden items to be uncovered,
mini games and plenty of other interesting things going on giving the game a high
replay value.
All in all DAH! is an extremely funny game that should not be missed! Go out and
buy a copy today!

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