Destroy all Humans! Is an action adventure game from developers Black Forest Games and it was published by THQ Nordic. This is a remake of the original game from 2005 a game I never played so this is purely a review of the remake.

It is 1950’s America and Crypto 137 has been sent to Earth to harvest Human DNA in order for the furons to reproduce as they have been rendered sterile. While on Earth 137 will also need to solve the mystery of his brothers disappearance Crypto 136.

In the game players control Crypto in a series of missions and challenges set in various open world levels.

Various weapons and abilities are available in your arsenal with simple to use upgrade system for enhancements and additional firing power, offensive weapons such as Zap o Matic and disintegrator are great for killing humans but you want to focus mostly on using the extract ability or the anal probe in order to collect Human DNA which acts as XP allowing you to gain more power and upgrades.

Psycho kenosis is encouraged throughout the game and once fully powered up you can lift and throw almost anything including tanks and vehicles, missions have bonus objectives to complete which often require the Psycho Kenosis ability in order to achieve all necessary goals.

Crypto has his own mode of transportation with his very own flying saucer, the flying saucer is a very powerful machine which is used to completely demolish areas, destroying buildings and killing everyone in your path, the saucer can also be fully upgraded making it a machine of slaughter and chaos.

The main campaign is fairly short coming in at under 10 hours but luckily there is a fair bit of side content you can do, each map has a set number of hidden collectibles to find, these are called probes and to my knowledge don’t really offer anything but bragging rights for finding them all.

there are four additional challenges race, Armageddon, rampage and adbuction

Race is a mode which has Crypto chasing down a drone which is dropping packets of data and it’s your goal to collect them all without letting the drone get too far away.

Armageddon sees your taking over the flying saucer and destroying the level it takes place in, definitely the most satisfying mode in the game especially when you have fully enhanced your weapons allowing you to wipe out buildings with ease.

Rampage is all about killing humans, fully power up your guns and slaughter everyone who gets in your way.

Finally abduction requires you to throw requested NPC models into the saucers abduction beam, for me this was the most challenging part of the game, most of the time if you did succeed it was with little time left, the path was very linear and how you succeeded had very little wiggle room leaving players to figure out the required strategy.

Visually the remake enhanced the graphics and there is no denying that, I’ve seen gameplay of the original and the models and graphics are smoother here but on the PS4 and in HD this don’t look great. This is an issue with many “remakes” where much gameplay may be changed and bugs ironed out but to save on finances valuable time, visuals and audio simply get enhancements and in modern times this really shows.

Now while graphics are the least important part of what makes a game great, you cannot deny how much appreciation can be given to gorgeous visuals and even though we didn’t get it here I do hope one day we get a destroy all humans 3 (as a reboot) which pushes the series to its full potential.

The music didn’t change in this remake and for good reason, the original soundtrack is perfectly crafted with a slower style and the use of the pheromone to give the music vibes similar to those of old Sci-Fi movies from the 50’s, I wouldn’t say the soundtrack is particularly memorable but it truly is made for a game like this and helps to bring much of the personality to the setting.

Destroy all Humans 2020 is a lot of fun but definitely has its issues, while the majority of my playthrough was positive I would definitely point out the games biggest flaw…age. Its pretty obvious from the get go that this is a remaster of a much older video game, the game can get fairly repetitive it follows a formula and repeats throughout which works well enough but I found it difficult to sink longer play sessions into this because of that.

Overall my experience here was pretty damn good and I highly recommend checking the game out, its an easy platinum on PlayStation and is included as part of the premium tier of PS Plus so check it out and let me know what you think and if you played the original game back in the day does this remake hold up? I would love to know your thoughts

6.7/10

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