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Destroy All Humans
Destroy all Humans is one of those fun
games that doesn't really take itself too seriously and takes a healthy
dose of aliens and mixes it with that extraordinary genre of 1950's B
movies. The game is best described at Mars Attack but rather than being
from a human perspective, gamers get to play the bad guys and that
involves flying saucers, ray guns and lots of probing.
Gamers get to play the role of Crypto Sporidum who is on a mission to
investigate his predecessors disappearance on Earth when his ship
crashed many years ago. Unfortunately for Crypto, his predecessor has
been captured by the humans who have been performing hideous experiments
on the alien and now it is up to Crypto to rescue him... or what's left
of him.
Crypto the alien has three basic weapons at his disposal that include a
gun, psychic powers and his trusty flying saucer. Each of his weapons
can be upgraded, the gun can be modified into a number of weapons from a
grenade launcher to a probing device that can also fire out electricity
to fry any human in sight. Every time you encounter one of the games
bosses you will revert back to the flying saucer. The weapons in the
flying saucer are pretty special and far more powerful than the other
weapons. The unfortunate thing is, the gameplay in Destroy all Humans is
pretty average and quite basic. You will spend loads of time blasting
humans and the reminder of time in the saucer.
Graphically, Destroy all Humans features
the same tacky special effects that you would expect to see in those
1950 movies and it's almost as if the game has actually been taken from
that genre. The unfortunately aspect of the graphics is the poor frame
rate and the magical buildings that appear out of nowhere, however with
that said, fortunately the character models in the game are quite
impressive, especially Crypto himself who is extremely reminiscent of a
grey alien.
As with the graphics, the audio contains that same tacky 1950's feel to
it with cheesy voices and sound effects taken out of the worst science
fiction movie of that area. Match that with a spooky soundtrack and you
have one "B" grading sounding game... which is good!
In conclusion, Destroy all Humans is a
quaint game that would probably interest the younger generation of
gamers as the game does unfortunately become slightly repetitive. With
graphics and sound that would impressive any 1950's B movie maker,
Destroy all Humans is one of those action/arcade games that is
unfortunately missing that vital element... addictive gameplay.
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