Never having played the original game, I didn't know what to expect when I downloaded Destroy All Humans! What I found was a gorgeous game steeped in action-packed, hillariously-offensive fun. With superb voice acting, amazing visuals, and incredible special effects, it's hard to believe that you're getting this much bang for your buck. Stylishly representing late 1950s and early 1960s America, your role to manipulate, subjugate, and ultimately, yes, destroy all humans, leads you to explote their sexist, materialistic, power-hungry ways. With delicious humor, it reminds you what makes (made?) video games so incredibly compelling - unbridled escapism without concern for satisfying censors or reviewers. As you play Crypto-137 and are mentored by his Invader Zim-like counterpart, Orthopox, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat as you work to complete both mandatory and optional challenges in each scenario, and then revisiting each of the dozen or so missions and their respective locales to improve your telekinetic abilities, your saucer-flight-and-bombardment tactics, and your mind-control and human-destruction pursuits. This game is, bottom line, FUN! It's also incredibly unique. Much like Majesty was for the fantasy city-builder genre, Destroy All Humans! is a game that combines the murder and mayhem from Grand Theft Auto, the sense of progressive ectasy and character-building from Starcraft II's single-player campaigns, and the in-your-face crude-but-adorable non-PC humor of the Leisure Suit Larry series. If you're looking to take out your frustrations in this pandemic pandaemonium we're living in and are exasperated with the stupidity of your fellow Earthlings, strap into your saucer, charge up your zapper, and get ready to Destroy All Humans!
