Destroy All Humans combines the sandbox-style gameplay GTA pioneered with a fully-realized environment that serves as a living, biting satire of American culture in the 50s. Oh yeah, you get to demolish entire towns with a flying saucer's death ray, too.
A fabulous atmosphere goes a long way towards creating a classic game, and Destroy All Humans has this fundamental issue down to a science. Cute-but-creepy aliens resembling the earth invaders in Mars Attacks hunt down human DNA to save their race. The player avatar is a little green man with the voice of a very good Jack Nicholson impersonator. Hilarious voice acting helps bring the invasion to life, and scanning the minds of puny Earthlings to find out what really goes on in the minds of the repressed 50's Americana-era culture never gets old. "My mind says Marylin Monroe, but my body says Bettie Page." Glorious.
The story mode requires you to spread chaos and disorder across six massive areas, all of which will be revisited once or more during the game. Most of the mission objectives require some mingling with the people of Earth, but the game often leaves it up to the player as to what level of interaction is best. Do you body snatch the Mayoral candidate for a disguise? Or simply anal-probe every pathetic Carbon-based lifeform between you and world domination?
Regardless of the approach you take while on foot, Destroy All Humans is at its best when you take to the skies in your flying saucer for what can be best described as Blast Corps meets Independence Day. Anyone who ever enjoyed watching aliens blow apart cities on the big screen will enjoy this mode above all, and hope for it to be fleshed out a bit more in the sequel.
Destroy All Humans won't take over your console without resistance: As mentioned, the on-foot portions can't compare with the gleeful destruction in the flying mode, and essential power-ups for your raygun and flying saucer alike will require you to take your fair share of repetitive side quests. Nonetheless, Destroy All Humans gets a lot more right than it does wrong, and anyone who's been waiting for a definitive alien invasion game (and really, who hasn't?) will find lots of joy on this disc.
-George
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