Destroy All Humans
by THQ
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Video Game Reviews of Destroy All Humans
Customer Review: Good idea, missing an ending
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Customer Review: from a hardcore gamer
Summary: 4 Stars
I like all the smash and grab i can get and after reading reviews and hype about this game i decided to rent it. i have to say that i was pleasantly surprised in that the game actually lived up to it's hype. let me start out by saying that this game isn't intended to have awesome graphics, or an amazing storyline, or even beautiful dialogue. it's just good, clean (well, i'm not sure how clean ripping someone's brain out of their head through telekinesis is but...) fun.
The premise of this game is simple, in a spoof of the 60's b-movies and hysteria the "little green men" (who hate being called that when they're really gray) come to earth to take over. the reason given is that the martians have cloned themselves so many times that the gene pool is getting a bit shallow. so they decide to sweeten the pot, so to speak, with a bit of human DNA. your assignment as cryptosporidium, crypto for short, is to gather the appropriate amount of monkey, what he calls humans, DNA and eventually take over the world.
Having said that i would like to point out at this point that i really don't care about taking over the world. one of the best parts of this game is the semi-openendedness. though the missions are basically linear you can choose in which order you do them to begin with. the added bonus of being able to upgrade your guns, tk, and your saucer really add to the game. DNA is the name of the game and with enough you can purchase all the upgrades you want. not that there's many of them, but they're significant. the best part of the game, for me, was near the end when i'd gotten all of the upgrades. it's incredibly fun to pick up a tank with your mind and bash an uncooperating "majestic" (Herbert Hoover style CIA) agent to death. or to merely pick up the agent himself and fling (or repeatedly smash him) to his doom. for those of you that prefer "safer" forms of fun use the saucer's tractor beam to pick up said tank and transform it into a humongous ball-and-chain. however, the two most wickedly fun things are charging up the anal-probe gun before you shoot a person so that their head explodes, or simply tk'ing their brain out of their head. oh yeah. and there's some really funny dialogue if you take the time to listen.
Overall this game is really fun and has great replay value for a rainy day. loved it.
Customer Review: COWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
This game is cool.You can make the chickens do the chicken dance and you can make the people do that to.You can read peoples thoughes and you can pick people up throw people and you can turn into them.Customer Review: It's cool after the first five hours, but then it just gets boring!
Summary: 3 Stars
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.Customer Review: A great game - really fun
Summary: 5 Stars
I play this game with my 3 years old son (he loves aliens and laughs a lot with some unusual scenes). My 14 years old daughter do not understand what the people are 'thinking' or even saying during the game but she loves flying and shooting against the tanks, soldiers and agents. THQ made a really cool game where violence is not real (the blood is green) and you can enjoy it for many hours. It's a game, a good one!