Destroy All Humans! | |
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Genres | Action-adventure |
Developers |
Pandemic Studios (2005–2006) Locomotive Games (2008) Sandblast Games (2008) |
Publishers | THQ |
Platforms | PlayStation 2, Xbox, Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
Platform of origin | PlayStation 2, Xbox |
First release |
Destroy All Humans! June 21, 2005 |
Latest release |
Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon December 1, 2008 |
Destroy All Humans! is an open world action-adventure video game franchise that is designed as a parody of Cold War-era alien invasion films. Destroy All Humans! and Destroy All Humans! 2 are available for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox game consoles, with Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed being only available for the Wii and Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon being only available for the Xbox 360 (and PlayStation 3 only in Australia and Europe). All Furons are named after viral or bacterial infections, or sometimes, the actual bacteria that cause the infections, such as Helicobacter. The game has now been ported to PS4 being upresed to 1080p along with Destroy All Humans! 2.
The two main protagonists of the series are voiced by J. Grant Albrecht and Richard Steven Horvitz, with the exception of the game Big Willy Unleashed, in which actors Sean Donnellan and Darryl Kurylo portray the characters. The musical score for the series is performed by composer Garry Schyman.
In 1959, Cryptosporidium 137 first arrived on Earth to investigate the planet and search for his predecessor clone, Cryptosporidium-136, who disappeared in 1947 after Orthopox 13 sent him to Earth on a similar mission. Pox sends Crypto on a mission to harvest human brain stems (which contain Furon DNA due to an encounter between Furon warriors and humans in ancient times) to prevent his species from going extinct. To accomplish his mission, he must defeat Majestic, a shadowy government organization led by a black-clad figure named Silhouette. After accomplishing this, Crypto takes over the United States by posing as the President.