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Destroy All Humans! Path of The Furon

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The good: I recently downloaded the original Destroy all Humans (DAH) on XBox Live and really enjoyed it. Hoping for more of Crypto's antics, I got DAH Path of the Furon. I am currently in the last world and have really enjoyed the game. Path of the Furon is a quantum leap in improvement from the original one. The scope of the game is quite ambitious in terms of scale, detail, and weapons.

This is one of the least frustrating games I have played in a long time. Unlike the original, a failed mission does not start from the beginning; it starts from the last successful mission step you completed. The missions are quite varied compared to the original and are very entertaining. The dialogue and voice acting is superb which must total more than an hour. Reading people's minds yields a much larger variety of comments than its predecessor.

The game shines with its innovative variety of weapons including the Tornadotron, the Black Hole Gun, Venus Human Trap, and Superballer. You eventually learn to manipulate time and do the temporal Fist. I like the fact that there is a large combination of ways to tackle an enemy which are quite different (unlike other games where the weapons just shoot projectiles with different damage and rate properties). If you want to stop time, use Psychokinesis on a tank's bullet flying towards you, and hurl it back to the enemy with the Temporal fist, you can!

The cities are very detailed, and there is plenty of eye candy. The "realism" of destruction of buildings is the best you will see in a game at present.

The bad: Given the complexity and scale of the game, you will notice bugs. I've noticed a few times that after reading someone's mind the person's speech was not audible. The game has crashed 2 times so far, but due to the game's auto save feature I was able to resume the game where I was.

Overall: An great game starring Crypto with a low frustration factor and entertaining comedy. Massive and innovative destruction and weapons. Has some bugs that rarely get in the way of gameplay.

I've been a die-hard fan of Crypto since the first 2 games in this series, and while this game took a alternate path ("Temporal FIST!") I still enjoyed it and had about as much fun as I did with the first two.
There are a few glitches that I had to re-start the game from the last save, but figured out that if you head in another direction when you re-start, it avoids the glitch. A lot of the play style you've been used to is a little changed, but as with anything---take it on it's own, and on it's own you'll enjoy it. They first did a 50's motiff, then a 60's motiff -- and this took a whack at the Disco era. I'd love to see the series continue........but where do we go from here? I KNOW...Crypto can blow up Paris Hilton? (admit it, you'd like that, right?)

First, I will point out the negative factors. After excellent graphics and sound of the previous two games on an earlier generation console, this game's improvement is not as sharp as one may expect for Xbox 360. The graphics are somewhat clunky. Crypto's Cortex Scan is also unbalanced, which may be to a glitch in programming. However, it is good to see that power back, as it was one of the highlights of its predeccesors.
To balance it out with positive factors, Sandblast has done a decent job of taking over from Pandemic Games in keeping up the sharp wit and humorous writing that makes this game just as enjoyable script wise. Weaponry is still neat, and it is good to see the voice actors J. Grant Albrecht and Richard Horvitz reprising their roles as Cryptosporidium and Orthopox from the earlier games. Although the games may have run their course, if there is sufficient dedication I would not mind seeing one more game! Given that Destroy All Humans was in the 1950s, Destroy All Humans: Make War Not Love was a take on the 1960s and the current Path of the Furon is set in the 1970s, the sight of Crypto ripping up the colorful 1980s would be a sight to see!

Seriously. Just don't. To say it is mediocre would be to rate it too highly.

I'm not one of those people who's badmouthing this game simply because I thought the first two were better. I'd read reviews and heard stories about Path of the Furon, and I was expecting something fun with a good story that simply wasn't quite as good as Destroy All Humans 2.

I was wrong.

First, the humor:

The new developer, Sandblast Games, totally missed the point of the franchise's humor.

Take, for example, bodysnatching in Destroy All Humans 2. In Destroy All Humans 2, when you snatch a body and then talk to someone, Crypto makes no attempt to disguise his voice, or even speak in a local accent. Imagine an old Russian woman talking to a member of the KGB, calling him "Ivan," and speaking in a male voice that sounds uncannily like Jack Nicholson's.

That's humorous.

Now, look at Path of the Furon: Crypto bodysnatches an Italian don, and Pox reminds Crypto to speak like an Italian don. Then Crypto speaks in a surprisingly convincing (if stereotypical) voice.

That's not UNfunny, per se, but that's not directly funny.

Beyond this aspect, there's the writing. While playing Destroy All Humans and Destroy All Humans 2, I experienced many laugh-out-loud moments due to the spot-on writing and satirization of 50's and 60's America, as well as modern popular culture. Pandemic's writing was spot on, and their sense of comedic timing was brilliant. There were few "conversation trees" which mattered, and options in regular conversations were kept to a minimum - and were all written with humor in mind, and could be skipped if you simply want to get through the scene to kill more humans.

Sandblast, on the other hand, included conversation trees with many options into most conversations. Granted, the choices you pick STILL don't matter, but... they're not funny. The jokes all fall flat, are trite, and don't include any of the sharpened wit that Pandemic included in its writing. Worse, there are some scenes in which you do need to select every dialog item to progress - e.g., there's a scene in which Crypto has to tell four "jokes," and you can't move forward until you've selected all four jokes, and some of the selections aren't even actual jokes.

And then there are the details:

In Destroy All Humans and Destroy All Humans 2, when Crypto's running around as a human and walks into other people, they get knocked back and grunt and sometimes say rude things. The clothing of the average people on the street are sometimes exaggerated versions of actual clothing from that time period. Thoughts read from a passerby's mind might have been limited in quantity, but each one was cutting.

In Path of the Furon, people don't even notice when he runs into them. Hell, people don't even notice that an alien is running around on the street if you're not disguised! When you read someone's mind, there are many more possible thoughts, yes, but they're less interesting.

Worse, though, than the game being unfunny... the story doesn't make sense. Crypto and Pox constantly act out-of-character.

Why does Crypto want to own a casino? The purported story is that the casino's a front for gathering DNA, but over and over again Crypto talks about how his "dream" is to run a successful casino. And Pox wants a cut of the casino's profits, too. Why? The first two games establish that the two of them are here only to collect DNA, and to deal with related threats. And then - oh no! - Crypto is "outed" as an alien (after having run around town undisguised for several missions), then he and Pox need to leave town and go to "Sunnywood?"

There are far too many gaps in the narrative for the story to even begin to make sense.

Compare this to Destroy All Humans 2, in which everything fits the characters' motivations and all movements make sense. The plot may deviate from the basic task of destroying humans, but the reasons why make sense.

And then, there are the game's technical flaws.

I'd heard the graphics weren't as good as other Xbox 360 titles. I wasn't expecting, however, for Path of the Furon's graphics to be worse than Destroy All Humans 2.

I mean, sure, people on the street are drawn with more detail. And there's lots of detail in Crypto's model, and his saucer. But the world as a whole looks flat and lifeless and uninspired - it's closer to the look of original Destroy All humans than to Destroy All Humans 2. Which would be fine for a last-gen system title. But on Xbox 360?

On tope of that, there are frequent reductions in framerate, especially when any water effects appear on the screen or when you're fighting lots of enemies. There's no excuse for a game using the Unreal Engine to be so poorly optimized as to drop frames, when for example Batman: Arkham Asylum - another Unreal Engine game - has substantially higher character detail, substantially more detailed environments, and more detailed action sequences than Path of the Furon.

And then there are other gameplay issues. Bodysnatching, PK, and mind reading all improve the more you use the skills. Sounds reasonable, right? Except that I was able to max out all these skills in under 30 minutes, with very little effort.

In contrast, Destroy All Humans 2 had a "gene blender" - you needed to abduct certain combinations of humans, and by blending their genes you'd improve your abilities. This gave the game more dimension and gave the player something to look forward to, rather than simply button-mashing over and over to make powers better.

I could keep going, but there's only so much that's worth writing.

I bought Path of the Furon with an open mind. I was expecting something fun, that maybe just wasn't as good as Destroy All Humans 2. But now I'm disappointed that I paid money for this title, and I question Sandblast's ability to develop any decent games when they missed the mark so thoroughly - even on the simple stuff.

Unfortunately, Destroy All Humans 2 was never made compatible with Xbox 360, so I'm sure many of the people now buying Path of the Furon have only played the original Destroy All Humans. And I'll admit that, if the first game is all that you've seen, Path of the Furon might not seem as abysmal as it actually is.

But buying a used original Xbox and a copy of Destroy All Humans 2 is a substantially better investment of money and time than throwing away cash and purchasing Path of the Furon.

Will I still keep playing Path of the Furon? Probably. I'm about halfway through the game after less than five hours of gameplay, and I feel like I should at least beat it, since I spent money on it. But if I'd known what it would be like before I'd bought it, I never would've spent money on it.

i love destroy all humans, when i rented the first one and beat it it was amazing, great humor and lots of fun, them i got the second one and thought it was the best game in the series. i bout this one a while back and beat it. boy was this fun, its basicaly destroy all human 2 gameplay but funnier than the second one, in this game many celebs make a cameo, sonny and cher, jack nicholson and more, its just so funny, las vegas, paris, china, and the planet of crypton. amazing game, buy it right NAO!!!!!!!!

I loved the first game, the second was good, the third was ok, and this is well the series jump to bigger platforms but the only thing that really feels diffrent was the controls and the graphics.
the game is fune and will have you play for a good portion of your xbox 360 time. despite some glitches give it a try

First off, I would like to let people know that I have only played the XBox 360 version of this game and I do not know if it plays the same on the PS3 or not.

That being said I think this is an extremely fun game. With all new exciting weapons to unload all your frustrations on the filthy monkey race known as humans. However, the fun stops there.

This game (atleast for the 360) is extremely littered with bugs. And speaking as a gamer I know the difference between small game glitches that you can work around and deal with and the game killing bugs that seem to plague this game. You would think that the game developer would have tested this game before releasing it but apparently not. One extremely game crushing bug that I've encountered not once, but several times is the 'Body Snatching' game glitch. Apparently when you body snatch someone and so much as move the look spring to the levt Crypto becomes 'stuck', and since a lot of missions have portions where you need to body snatch someone and this bug means you have to turn off your console and restart from your last save location it turns the game from fun to insufferable to play.

I would say to anyone to not buy this game and that the developers need to pull it off the shelf and fix the bugs and I feel extremely sorry for anyone who gets this game for Christmas this year.

Being a DAH fan, I went ballistic over the release of yet another chapter in Crypto's fun-loving, empirically destructive yet always sarcastic life. Much to my dismay, I found this addition to the DAH game family to be a little less than entertaining. Certainly, the epic one liners sparked a few chuckles and the overall destruction and chaos I was able to wreak was enjoyable, but it seemed like a cliff-note version of something which could have been much, much better. The weapons were more or less the same as in DAH 2.....with only a few interesting additions to both Crypto's and the Saucer's arsenal. The additions to the PK powers made for interesting and somewhat comical adventures and the Venus Human Trap was entertaining but there was just something.....missing. The story line was a bit weak and the missions seemed a bit too easy for the more experienced DAH player. If you haven't played any of the other DAH games, this one is an entertaining adventure that may be the catalyst to a Crypto addiciton. If you're played the other games....LOVED the other games and are looking for another side-splitting adventure...you MAY be a little disappointed. Is it still worth it? Yeah......if you just want to add to the collection and show loyalty to the Furon God. :) My overall personal opinion........DAH 2 is by FAR my favorite of the series.....too bad it's only available on the original Xbox.....but....the only reason I still hang onto the older console. :)

i realy like it its just im stuck tryng to complete the very first mission,im tryng to figure out how to destroy the shield with the mines.anyway its realy fun.id at least rent it.

I would like to say this is a great game. I did not see anything bad besides one paralyzing glitch.This is a wonderful game every serious or un-serious gamer should get. The dialogue is very witty and the game play is the equivalent of eating a good cake!

-Sam