For everyone who loves to hate the 1950s

User Rating: 9 | Destroy All Humans! XBOX
By snakes3425 | Review Date:
Ah America circa 1957, land of mom's apple pie, commies under the bed, and government sponsered propaganda on everything from your taste in fashin to what to do when a Nuke explodes right over your head. There was even a government sponsered Clean Up-Fix Up Bureau telling you that if your house isn't spick and span when the Bomb falls you, mom, dad, little Suzy, Grandma, Grandpa and Rover are toast. Ah but what is 1950s America with out two very important things: Bad Science Fiction Movies, and paranioa about everything from commies to little green men from Mars.

With Destroy All Humans, you get a chance to bring one of the biggest fears of the 1950s to life, namely the paranioa surrounding Flying Saucers and Little Green Men, or in this case, a very pissed off little Grey Man named Crypto. The game's world is a gigantic parady of life in 1950s America, taken to the extreme, complete with pardies of such famous Fifties icons as Douglas MacArther and Dwight Eisenhower. In fact the entire game itself features chapters with names that parady infamous 1950s Science Fiction Movies, and features refences to famous UFO related events, people, and sites such as the MAJESTIC-12, Roswell and AREA 51.

The game's environment is one of the best features of Destroy All Humans, and the responses you get when reading someone's mind are hillarious. However the game's best feature is that it's single player campaign is open ended, meaning you can just go around blowing up buildings, and killing people. The game also provides a wide variety of weapons, such as a disintigration weapon, and zapper, and special powers that can be employed against enemies.

Disipite it's orginality in terms of story, which is told from the Alien's point of view rather then the Humans, and humor, Destroy All Humans has it's fair share of flaws, the first is the weapons, of all the weapons, only the Zapper and Anial Probe are capable of harvesting the primary objective of the game, Human Brain Stems, the more powerful weapons not only kill the enemy, they destroy the brainsteams as well. Among the worst features of the game is it's enemies. Many are just bland, looking more like rejects from a Men in Black movie then a power mad secret society bent on global domination. The enemies of course range from your typical 1950s suberbanite to the MIB rip-off MAJESTIC Agents, who can flat out kick your tail all over the place since they are armed with the same types of weapons and powers you are. But the worst feature of the game is that in the end it feels like a clone of Grand Theft Auto III, complete with an alert indicator that brings in more powerful enemies the higher up it gets.

Dispite it's flaws, Destroy All Humans is actually a very fun game, and will appeal to fans of the GTA series, or die hard Science Fiction Fans.

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