Most of the missions, however, keep you on foot as the diminutive Crypto-137. Developer Pandemic popularized and improved this open-world destruction with its Mercenaries series, but even in 2020, Destroy All Humans!’ shift from micro- to macro-destruction is impressive. Nearly everything in the game can be obliterated with your UFO’s lasers, including trailer parks, homes, factories, and, of course, parodies of a few iconic American landmarks. Image: Black Forest Games/THQ Nordic via Polygon Completing missions awards you space bucks that you can spend on upgrades - I’ll get to those in just a moment. Each locale has its own set of story missions, along with a collection of optional side quests in which Crypto must race a drone, abduct dozens of humans, or destroy as much property as possible.

This grand quest sends Crypto on a tour of six mini-open worlds in the United States circa 1959, ranging from Midwest farmland to a California beach town and then over to a parody of Washington, D.C. I told you - the “jokes” aren’t great.Īnyway, all humans have a little bit of Furon DNA, and you’re tasked with harvesting it. The game compares the ancient Furon exploits on Earth to “sailors” having a good time. Your predecessor, Crypto-136, has crash-landed on Earth, and it’s your job to find your clone sibling, recover any alien technology, and mine humans for Furon DNA, which was woven into the human population millennia ago by Furons who presumably raped hundreds of thousands of human women. You play as Cryptosporidium-137, an alien clone produced by the Furon species.

It’s also a time capsule of “comedy” video games of the early 2000s, crudely imitating the South Park model of “equal opportunity offender.” Destroy All Humans! is a gleeful open-world chaos simulator. That last part is the reason folks considering the series for the first time may want to proceed with a bit more caution. This remaster, which I played on Windows PC, runs swimmingly, looks better than most games on Steam, and stays loyal to the source material. If you love the Destroy All Humans! series, which only ran for three years but had four games, then the headline tells you everything you need to know: Developer Black Forest Games has done a superb job reproducing the original 2005 cult classic by the now-defunct Pandemic Studios.

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