Get ready for one giant step to rule the galaxy, nifty fifties style! Destroy All Humans revolves around Cryptosporidium No. 137, an alien dude of the Furon Race...or maybe should I even call him E.T. the Extraterrestrial's tough badassed distant cousin? In 1957 he arrives on Earth to search for his predecessor clone, Cryptosporidium No. 136, who went missing ten years earlier after Orthopox No. 13 sent him to earth on a similar mission. Pox sends Crypto on a mission to harvest human brain stems - which contain Furon DNA due to an encounter between Furon warriors and humans in ancient times - to prevent his species from going extinct. To accomplish his mission, he must defeat Majestic, a shadowy Men-In-Black-style government organization founded in the earlier 1950s led by a black-clad villain named Silhouette. After accomplishing this, Crypto takes over the United States by posing as Mr. President. I played this on PlayStation 2 and I really loved it. It's so much fun, even better than that ungainly pile of puke I hate so much called that Stupid Invaders crap from years back.
This game is very unusual in that it is unlike many others. It is very darkly humorous and takes place in a more satirical 1950s America. Crypto and Orthopox who make fun of the human race and their customs, with the humans being more cartoony versions of your average person from that time period. In fact they look as if they were made by Hanna & Barbera or Jay Ward or Warner Bros. or Metro Goldwyn Meyer cartoon studios! Additionally, the graphics for its time are awesome with the remake enchancing the artstyle making it much closer to Cartoon Network-y.
You're given a large amount of alien weaponry for killing humans, such as a Zap-O-Matic (which fires a burst of electricity and electrocutes the target; the stream of electricity can be chained between targets; it doesn't use ammo, but recharges instead) and an Anal Probe (which works by being charged and then shot; a fully charged shot sends a Pedestrian or a Cop or a Soldier running before their heads explode). These weapons and the others can be upgraded using brain stems from the flying saucer.
While you can follow the missions, the game allows the player to roam around freely, randomly kill humans, and completing side missions. In fact the environments allow for a lot of enjoyable destruction. The freedom to create chaos is terrific; however some missions lack variety. Even the side missions seemed tacked on, and were really boring, uninteresting, and sometimes frustrating.
Now join me and together let's go destroy all humans!