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Destroy All Humans!
Console
Xbox
Publisher
THQ
Genre
Action
Developer
Pandemic Studios
Release Date
06/21/05
ESRB Rating
Teen
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Destroy All Humans!
June 19, 2005 | 4:57 PM PST

by: Ken Nelson

Here's a little question for all of you kids who've been following the video game industry like you should. Can you think of any development house that has been as "on" as Australian team Pandemic in the past year? You'll be hard pressed to find one. Since the release of the critically acclaimed Full Spectrum Warrior last June, Pandemic has gone on to release two other games, Star Wars: Battlefront and Mercenaries both of which garnered high marks from reviewers.
So, it's been twelve months since the release of Full Spectrum Warrior, and Pandemic is now set to continue their hot streak with the release of Destroy All Humans!. And believe me when I tell you that I simply can't wait to see what Pandemic is going to show us next after spending some serious time with Destroy All Humans!.

Greetings creature of Earth. You are now part of the Furon Empire

The setting of Destroy All Humans! takes place in a time much more simple than today. In a time when the music of Elvis Presley was the latest rage, and color television would one day be only a hopeful possibility. I'm speaking of course of the 1950's. The fifties was not only a time of poodle skirts and milkshakes, but also a time of constant paranoia thanks in no small part to a certain Senator by the name of Joseph McCarthy and his campaign against communism. Needless to say, people were a little on edge during the decade.

You start the game as Cryptosporidium 137, who for the love of this poor reviewer's fingers, is also known as Crypto for short. Crypto has been sent to Earth after the fall of his predecessor Cryptosporidium 135, who unfortunately crash landed and collapsed dead in the desert. However, that won't be of concern until later on in the game.

Leaving that poor sap in the past, you'll soon discover Crypto's true mission. His race, the Furons, for a lack of better words, lack "the hardware" from centuries of atomic warfare on lower life forms. As such, they can no longer procreate. Furons do possess the capability to clone themselves, but with each new wave of clones, results become more unstable. Luckily, there is a solution. Long ago, when the Furons were annihilating the Martian race from the face of the universe, a Furon ship stumbled upon planet Earth. Without going into the nitty gritty, every human brain stem on the planet has pure, fresh Furon DNA within it. It's going to be your mission to extract this DNA and save the Furon race.

Pitiful Earth creature!


It must be mentioned that the story found in Destroy All Humans! possesses arguably the funniest script of any game released this year (Psychonauts is tough competition, however). Whether it's looking at the world from an alien's point of view ("They eat with their mouths!?!?!? I think I'm going to be violently ill!") to reading the average Joe Schmoe's mind only to discover he's hiding a secret that would be considered taboo even in today's day and age.
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