Destroy All Humans! (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Pandemic Studios |
| Publisher(s) | THQ |
| Director(s) | Brad Welch |
| Producer(s) | Gordon Moyes |
| Writer(s) | Tom Abernathy |
| Composer(s) | Garry Schyman |
| Series | Destroy All Humans! |
| Engine |
Havok 
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| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, Xbox, PlayStation 4 (BC),Xbox 360 (BC), Xbox One (BC), |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (Xbox) 76.98% (PS2) 76.04% |
| Metacritic | (Xbox) 76/100 (PS2) 74/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| EGM | 7/10 |
| Eurogamer | 7/10 |
| Game Informer | 8/10 |
| GamePro |   |
| Game Revolution | C+ |
| GameSpot | 7.5/10 |
| GameSpy |  |
| GameTrailers | 7.8/10 |
| GameZone | (Xbox) 7.7/10 (PS2) 7.4/10 |
| IGN | 7/10 |
| OPM (US) | |
| OXM (US) | 8.5/10 |
| Detroit Free Press | |
| Maxim | 8/10 |
Destroy All Humans! is an action-adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The game is set in 1959 in the U.S. and parodies the lifestyles, pop culture, and politics of this time period. The player controls Cryptosporidium 137 (a reference to the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium), a member of the fictional Furon race of alien life, who has come to Earth to harvest DNA from humans to continue the cloning process of his species.
Since 2017, the improved PS2 version is available for the PlayStation 4 via PlayStation Store.
Since 2018, the Xbox version was made available on the Xbox One via backwards compatibility through the physical disc or a digital download on the Xbox Live Store. It still remains backwards compatible on the Xbox 360.
The game begins with a Furon, Cryptosporidium-136, hovering over a launch site with military personnel testing a rocket. The rocket is launched and destroys the ship carrying Cryptospiridium-136, and leaves him fatally wounded. Crypto-136 is later captured, by the U.S. Army. Some time later, Cryptosporidium-137 travels to Earth with another Furon, Orthopox-13. Cryptosporidium (nicknamed 'Crypto') comes with the intention of rescuing 136, while Orthopox (nicknamed 'Pox') desires to extract human brain stems for study. Crypto arrives at Turnipseed Farm in the Midwest, where Pox mistakes Cows for Earth's dominant life-form. The Majestic agency is alerted to the Furon presence when Crypto decimates an army brigade passing through the area. Pox, communicating with Crypto through a hologram-like device, then reveals to Crypto that the reason he requires human brain stems is because they contain pure Furon D.N.A. handed down to them by Furon scouts eons ago when the Furons stopped on Earth for "shore leave" following a war with Mars (which was rendered uninhabitable by the Furon Empire).
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