Originality has largely taken a back seat these days. Games are praised for ultra-lifelike graphics, fast-paced combat, and, in the case of Tomb Raider, a sexy heroine. No one ever takes the time to come up with something new. Well, except for Pandemic Studios, apparently - they created the Destroy All Humans! franchise, a game that turns a lot of established genre rules on their heads, particularly the notions that one has to play as a human fighting against invading alien hordes and that a game set in the '50s isn't fun. Where, Pandemic asks, is that written? You play as Crypto, a member of an alien race called the Furons. In a typical ridiculous B-movie explanation, the Furons DNA has gotten so mixed up due to radioactive experiments that they cannot reproduce. Cloning is the only way to propagate the race, but even that has its problems. The only way for the race to stay afloat is to find pure Furon DNA - and it just so happens the pathetic human race is chock-full of it. (The explanation for this is even more insanely unbelievable.) Like I said, it's ridiculous, but the game has some fun with it. It also takes great pleasure in lampooning everything about '50s America. Whether it's Irish cops or black-suited G-men, the threat of communist aliens or a casual nod to B-movies like Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space," Destroy All Humans, in using a bygone era as its setting, makes us laugh at it as well. It's also worth pointing out that the dialogue is just as funny and the cutscenes are ones you'll actually want to watch. Of course, funny and cool only goes a short distance. If the game sucks, no one will care. Thankfully, Pandemic has created a game that's fun to play, if not with the best gameplay ever. You have guns that shoot lightning, vaporize enemies, and yes, one that even performs an anal probe (not graphically), which, for some reason, causes people's heads to explode. Guess it must hurt. Anyway, you have mission objectives you have to complete in order to ensure the Furon invasion's success, but you also have to collect DNA from human brains. To do this, you can use your guns, or your character's PK abilities. With these you can lift people, cars, even tanks when you get strong enough, and throw them every which way. There's nothing quite as fun as tossing a tank into the river. You can also upgrade your weapons and PK abilities by spending the DNA you collect. Of course, no game about aliens in the 1950s would be complete without a flying saucer, and you get to fly one. You can "Death Ray" pesky humans to death, pick up cows and fling them around, or, if you've had a really bad day, raze an entire city. There's no end to the fun. Destroy All Humans! is the rare game that will entertain you for hours on end while simultaneously making you laugh yourself silly. People who grew up in the '50s will laugh at all the spoofing the game does - and those of us who didn't might laugh too - but at the end of the day, it's always fun to blow stuff up, whether you're a human or an alien.

I never really bothered to pick up this game and take a look at it. It was just there on the shelf of Movie Gallery this entire time, just another game among all the others. And in the outcome, thats all it really is.

Take 1 parts GTA/Mercenaries, 1 part Invader Zim, and 2 parts 1950's sattire, and you end up with this game. A free-roaming, humor-laden, Communist-fearing video game. Well the free roaming isnt all that free, once you go out too far you get taken back up to the mothership. The levels though are pretty easy to navigate but can often become annoying. The weapons are what youd expect an alien to have: disintegrator, electric gun, and even an anal probe. Yes, an anal probe. The use of the Havok engine is small because you can only use it in one of two ways: either with your PK abilities or with the ship. Using the PK abilities is extremely helpful since you can read the minds of the humans around you. You can also make them cause a distraction, go to sleep, or in some cases use them to complete a mission. If you ever get tired of blowing things up on foot, hop into your ship and start destroying (almost) everything in sight. From buildings to cars to... buildings. Theres not much to destroy. YOu can upgrade yourself, your weapons, and your ship, but it'll take some time to fully do those.
One thing to do in this game is collect the brains of the humans for their DNA. Also, finding the probes allows you to get more DNA. Once you beat the game, you can go back through and look for all the probes, but thats about it.

The graphics are not the best Ive seen, but they do well enough to get the job done at least. Although one might get frustrated from having to play in the same level 5 times over before you get to the next one. There is an awfully repetitive use of civilians in the areas and the Majestic agents all look the same.

In fact they all sound the same. The voiceacting is very well done, but it gets weird taking orders from Invader Zim. The conversations between Crypto and Orthopox are hilarious, sometimes. Others you just want them to shut up. The explosions sound cartoony, but most of the time your running from them too often to pay attention to them.

This is just one of those games where its just a game. It makes no huge impact on the gaming world and its overlooked by many. I liked it, im glad I rented it to finally see what it was all about. But I dont expect to buy it unless its in the used bin.

With a such a great storyline, this game has really made a big hit. The variety of weapons, characters, and telekinesis (I mean, come on, how coool is that?! You have no idea how long it took me to get past the first level just because I kept throwing the cows into the lake. Then when a farmer passed by, I would pull the cow out of the water!) One of my favorite parts of this game was the ability to change the form of your alien to a human. Although it was a little cheesy seeing that I could go in front of people as an alien, make them poop their pants, and then make myself look like their twin only to find that they would look at me and go "Well, good day!" And good job producers with the mind reading. Loved it! There was such a high variety of sayings which really push you to play the game just a little bit longer. In conclusion, I give this game two thumbs up.

destroy all humans is very fun indeed but u need a longer story, its a little to easy but still fun. if u like beating an easy game super fast, then buy, but i recommend to rent...

Destroy All Humans is a overall fun game but it lacks weapons and for a alien game there should be more wapons and mind powers and its over to quickly and i think this is a game to rent but buy it if your one of those people who like the GTA games but dont do the missions than by all means buy the game!