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Destroy All Humans 3

Format Xbox 360

Developer Sandblast Games

Publisher THQ

Genre Action, Sim / Strategy

8-Jul-2007 What? How many humans are there left to destroy?

3 Comments

"A tour of hi-fidelity destruction" is how Destroy All Human's producer, Jon Knoles, describes the game. We just saw most of a city sucked into an enormous black hole, so we can see where he's coming from. We've also seen monks eaten by giant plants, we've seen helicopters deconstructed on a quantum level. It's also still a comedy, with the target this time being the movie-era of the 1970s, where kung-fu, Sci-Fi, blaxploitation and disaster movies made uncomfortable bedfellows.

Again, you're taking control of the Furon (little gray man) Cryptosporidium-137, AKA Crypto (no relation to superman's dog). Crypto was sent to earth in the 1950s to find locate his missing clone Cryptosporidium-136, but got somewhat distracted. The beginning of this game finds him running a casino in Vegas, a little lost invasion in Los Vegas. He's even forgotten his purpose in life (that is, to Destroy All Humans!). With the advent of the 1970s, an attack on Crypto and his sidekick/boss Pox by an enemy from his own world reawakens his lust for destruction and he remembers what it means to destroy all humans again.

I hear voices
Coinciding with that rampage, Crypto starts hearing a voice in his dreams, telling him to go to Sheng Long (Hong Kong). There he encounters a temple of mystic, if slightly useless, monks, where an ancient martial artist Furon is waiting to unlock his powers and lead him down the path of enlightenment. Enlightenment involving sucking out human's brains with a big straw, for some reason.

So, for those not familiar with the series, you get to control the hydrocephalous (doesn't that just mean "big-headed"? - Ed) Crypto either on foot, wearing his jetpack or in his flying saucer; he can change freely between the free throughout the cities he encounters. Though you start at a set location in each city, you get to explore them in a completely freeform manner, though we are assured there is a strong plot thread running through each level.

Where the sun don't shine
Beyond that plot, Crypto's aim is still to extract as much DNA as possible from the human population of the cities he's in, which allows him to level up his weaponry. He's got many means of doing this, ranging from just killing the guys, to the traditional anal probe which, in this version, can be upgraded so it's both heat-seeking and fires multiple probes at once. It still makes people's heads explode though. He can also summon a Little Shop of Horrors-style "Venus Man Trap" that will eat any humans near it and is the most efficient extractor of human DNA around.

The humour has changed with the era. Whereas there was a nerdy ironic glee about the 1950s setting of the first game, this iteration has shifted over to a more outrageous, more blatant Mars Attacks style, much like the 1970s itself. This shift isn't bad or good, just different, with the babbling Jack Nicholson stylings of Crypto brought to the comic fore. Unfortunately, there was also no sign of Crypto's HoloBob disguise or telepathic power that was the source of the best humour in the first game.

Under hypnosis
Thankfully, Sandblast has replaced the missing elements with some new toys, including that astounding black hole bomb, as well as the knack of combining his abilities; so Crypto can now use his weapons, jetpack and TK powers all at once, allowing you to create some outrageously destructive moves - such as sticking a mine to a car then throwing it at some civilians. Now Crypto's got a distract power, as well as hypnotise, so he can carry on causing mental and physical mayhem.

"We wanted to dial up the volume on destruction" says Knoles, "with every explosion giving you visual feedback as to what you're doing." What with the selection of modes and return of familiar features, fans of the series will definitely find something to enjoy here; newcomers will hardly be alienated either.

Ryan King

Saucy

The saucer that the whole series started from has been made over completely for the new hi-def versions. Each weapon type springs out from the saucer in new, ungainly shapes, emphasising the destructive potential of each. There's the familiar favourites of the Martian Death Ray, Plasma Cannon, Quantum Deconstructor, and Abducto Beam, as well as the newer Tornadotron (that you can use while cloaked)

Anal what?

All the favourite weapons are returning from the Anal Probe (which makes brains explode) to the Zap-O-Matic (that attacks multiple targets when fully upgraded) to the Mars Attacks tribute Disintergrator Ray. Crypto also has access to all new psychic powers such as Time-Stop and improved Telekinesis, revealed to him by the master, as well as the Gravemind-alike Venus Human Trap.

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