Destroy All Humans!

THE BAD:
Repetitive and short.

SUMMARY:
Destroy All Humans! is a new Sci-Fi action game set in the 1950's. The game is pretty good but it quite repetitive and short. Destroy All Humans! is a fun game while it lasts though.

In Destroy All Humans! there is a alien invasion happening on the planet Earth. An alien race, known as the Furons, are dying out and they need more Furon DNA. This DNA is held in the human brain. So all of the citizens are trying to defend earth.
In Destroy All Humans! you actually play as one of the Furons, so you are not a human trying to pull of any heroics or anything like that. The Furon you play is called Crypto Sporidium 137 and is actually the 137th clone of this Furon. He goes down to investigate and see if he can rescue his predecessor, Crypto Sporidium 136 from Area 42.

So the actual gameplay in Destroy All Humans! is a mix of third-person shooting and aerial combat, in your trust UFO. The third-person shooting isn't exactly very interesting. You use the twin analogue sticks, like any other game that comes out nowadays and you shoot using the R1 button.
The shooting is satisfying enough but there is not really enough of it. The enemy AI is really, really dumb. They are really inaccurate, you health recharges over time and the game has very little challenge whatsoever. You weapons too also outpower theirs. It is only when the tanks and robots come it actually becomes more challenging. You do have a four icons on top of the screen telling you who is on to you. It starts of with the civilians, then the local police, then the military and finally the Majestic government agents. The only reason why you have to stay quite is because some missions restricts you not to get alerted.
There are four weapons in the game. The Zap-o-Matic, The Disintegrator Ray, The Anal Probe and The Ion Detonator. They all have their set of uses but the one you'll be come back to is The Disintegrator Ray which like a machine gun.
Along with your four weapons, you have some physhic abillities. You can read minds, hypnotise people to do silly things but the most useful is telekinesis. It isn't as well controlled as say the telekinesis abillity in Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy but it is good enough.

The graphics of Destroy All Humans are great. The Havoc physics work into the game perfectly and the character models look great, if a little samey. The environments look great too and feel quite atmospheric. But the pop-up is unbelieveable. It is almost as bad as Driv3r's and that is saying something.

The sound is superb with excellent voice-acting and outstanding music. Brilliant.

The game is a tad short. 8-10 hours long but that is all you can probably take before the game gets a bit too repetitive. But there are lots of extras like goofy screenshots and advertisement photos and a video of E3 2004 when Destroy All Humans! was first shown. You also get a five minute clip of Plan 9 From Outer Space and the full length feature film, Teenagers from Outer Space. These are neat extras.

Destroy All Humans! is a fun game but needs more interesting gameplay and a long length.