[h1]*Beep….beep…. ping ping ping!*
*New Planet discovered. Called Earth. Must initiate and destroy*[/h1]
[h3]Hello and welcome to my review of Destroy all Humans![/h3]
Unlike my other reviews, this is going to be a much shorter version. Not because I’m good at succinctly delivering my point but rather because I don’t have too much to say. And while that is a bleak opinion, my thumb’s up is because it just about provided me sufficient reasons to let this game get a pass.
[b]So, let’s get into it![/b]
This one’s a remaster of the original 2005 release. Story wise, it is extremely similar. The newer one is a ground-up reconstruction of the old game in a modern engine with a big overhaul in graphics and a few new gameplay elements which you’ll find out if you decide to play. The story is filled with wild accusations at the reds-communists, blaming them for almost anything. There are a few areas where you have to select a preferrable dialogue to complete the objective but that’s rather easy to execute.
But boy oh boy is the graphics pretty. Well optimised for the most part even though I faced stutters while moving the camera 180, especially when there were many visual special effects across the screen. The game crashed once, and I was met with the familiar unreal engine 4 post-crash window. Not too frustrating still. With GPUs like Rx 590, gtx 1660, you should have an overall smooth sailing above 60 fps at 1080p. The visuals are texture rich, pretty and the colours pop-up really well.
Gameplay elements, while not spoiling the surprise but to let you know what features can be played around with, include alien to human telepathically temporary-memory-wipe, distraction, disgusing yourself (the alien) in the appearance of almost anyone while no one’s watching, reading people’s thoughts, mission-specific mind-control of NPCs, explode explosive using your mind. You can run, glide/skate (unlockable), jetpack up and away from/towards danger, use your shock weapon, fire weapon, levitate humans, objects and fling them away (literally) and if this gives you thrill, then you can have tons of fun!
But, as in all things in life, not everyone will have the same preference. Fun, in this game can be cut short if you want to keep wreaking havoc on the general population in the free-roam mode because the police and soon the army with their tanks, big robots will come after you. And while the destruction can still continue, they’ll try to take you down.
Run on the ground, jet-pack above their heads to shock them using your recharging zap gun, which while unlimited, has a magazine that runs out and you need to wait a very short ~3 seconds or so for it to recharge back to full. You can also utilise your disintegrator-fire-type weapon with limited ammo that can be refilled after transmogrifying objects on the map. It’s an ability to telepathically transform solid objects to ammo. Or apply a similar technique to transmogrify human heads to steal [b]FURON DNA[/b] from their bodies to acquire this game’s main [b]currency[/b]. While there is no cash or points to upgrade your abilities and your [b]SAUCER’s[/b] abilities, you can use FURON DNA points (also earned after completing objective/missions) to do so. While in the free roam there is a great deal of freedom, during storyline missions, there is a wide mission area to try to stay within but this is generally not an issue.
The game already gifts various new skins for you to try from the start but you can earn more by completing all objectives in some selected missions or you can buy the skins DLC (which I did not).
The game can be lengthy or it can be short, depending upon how you want to run through it. I spent my time doing the main missions and while there are some interesting challenges per main map, I did not manage the time to complete them. But there is a decent amount of playable content aside the main story progression [i](which alone is kinda short)[/i].
The first 2 hours in this game can help you sufficiently decide whether you should keep playing the game or the game is too boring for you to keep so you might wanna claim a refund. The key bindings are simple, abilities are easy to understand and you can quickly grasp the jist of the game. You don’t need to spend a whole 30 minutes just to understand the controls and gameplay elements before you begin playing because the tutorials are quite easily explained while in the game and the abilities are provided to you in small chunks for you to easily understand and execute.
[i]Well, that’s it from me. I won’t bore you anymore. I hope you will be able to decide whether to buy or not buy the game. Thank you for levitating over my writing to get an idea of the game.[/i]
