Open environment games usually require you to commit a good amount of time to completing all of the objectives that are available. Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon is no different, there are many hours to be had playing all the main and side quests, but it boils down to will you want to?
You play Crypto, a snarky furon alien. The game begins with Crypto living the high life, owning a casino without a care in the world. The casino gets attacked and you are forced to uncover the conspiracy behind it all. On your path you learn various skills that are progressively unlocked throughout the game on your mission to destroy the evil Emperor Meningitis. Yeah, you read it correctly.
The plot becomes outright ridiculous at times, bouncing around all over the place. The dialogue between Crypto and his main pal Pox can be entertaining. The writers went to great lengths to parody all types of genres and even other games. The dialogue can also become drawn out and boring. The game sports interactive dialogue in some areas, kind of like an RPG. Sometimes you can get lucky and choose the right thing to say and avoid all the excessive jabbering. At other times, you are forced to constantly mash the A button just to get it all over with before your ears start to bleed. The downside to skipping all of the story and dialogue isn’t the fact that you will miss some of the plot, I had no problem with that, it’s that the game can start glitching. The audio will cut out or the game’s loading screen can become stuck and force you to restart the game, sometimes losing all of your progress.
The open environments are quite destructible. If you so choose, you can basically destroy every building on each map. There are all sorts of achievements tied to absolute destruction. I had the most enjoyment randomly killing civilians and blowing up buildings with the various array of weapons.
The weapons are definitely the high point. You obtain more advanced weapons throughout the game and you are also able to upgrade all of your weapons. My favorite has to be the super ball gun. Just fire the rainbow colored balls all over the place and watch your enemies bounce randomly over the map. The anal probe gun makes enemies run around holding their back-ends while pooing all over the place. This is high brow stuff, people! There are a ton more weapons to unlock for your saucer and for Crypto to utilize.
Crypto is able to use a jetpack to travel all over the open environments, but since they are quite large, this can take ridiculous amounts of time. You aren’t able to hijack vehicles, you are stuck using your jet pack and unless you unlock all of the landing areas, your flying saucer is rendered useless for simple travel. It can be a chore getting to missions.
There are around six or seven story missions in each world. You must complete these to progress through the game. The variety of each story mission lacks creativity. You are either killing things as Crypto or blowing things up with the saucer. Each one of the worlds ends with a boss battle but the degree of difficulty for these and most of the game is too easy. Nothing is overly challenging.
There are various hidden items and side quests that you can occupy your time with outside of the main storyline. They can be done during the main portion of the game or you can come back to them once you finish the game. I saved most of the side quests for later on but I ended up not coming back to most of them. Trucking through the main storyline was enough of the same for me. Destroy all Humans just seems to pointlessly drag on and bog down. Most of the quests ended up not being any real fun halfway through the game.
So many glitches plague Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon. I am not sure if it’s a product of time constraints or the developers just realized that the game just wasn’t coming together and gave up. I already touched on the cutscene audio issues but there is another huge problem I ran into on so many occasions. When you body snatch people, you turn into that human. Upon busting out of the human casing, Crypto can become stuck in the ground. I wasted all sorts of time trying to get Crypto out of the ground. A restart isn’t required, but you must keep jumping and activating your jet pack to find the point of entry from which you fell into this underground glitch. I became hesitant to body snatch anyone at this point.
Destroy All Humans uses a version of the Unreal Engine but the game looks quite awful. Character models, buildings, terrain, nothing at all has any style or flair. The textures are all flat and muddy looking. This is next gen graphics near it’s worst.
Multiplayer isn’t online enabled ,so you are stuck playing on a split-screen. There are a total of three types of multiplayer games. Two of the three games pit you against each other and one is co-op. None of the three are intriguing enough to warrant much praise, but I did enjoy Ion Soccer for a short period of time.
The weapons are going to be the only thing keeping most players interested in Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon. The variety of gameplay, poor story progression, bland style and graphics all combine to make the experience mundane. The game has all kinds of objectives and ridiculous things you can partake in, but no entertaining reason to do them. If you are a huge fan of the Destroy All Humans franchise, you might want to wait until this one hits the bargain bin.
Overall: 5 out of 10
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