Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon

THQ has already released one Destroy All Humans game this year with the Wii title Big Willie Unleashed. In September the series makes its first Xbox 360-PS3 entry with Path of the Furon which takes the B-movie inspired sci-fi action title into the 1970's. The early build we saw and played at THQ's press event looks like it will be very groovy, man. Sandblast Games takes over from Pandemic (who created the first two games in the series) for this new title.

The game once again has the grey alien Crypto up to no good as he abducts, mind-wipes and generally causes chaos in the fictional Southern California like open world city that Path of the Furon takes place in. As with previous games in the Destory All Humans series, you will have the ability to shoot and destroy the human populace through a variety of means in the new game. On foot you can throw them with your beam weapon, bounce them around with a rainbow like bouncing ball effect, make them be eaten by a giant Venus Flytrap plant (“Feed Me”), or you can use your mental abilities to take over a human to hide from others, make other humans forget where you are, or even make a crowd disco dance to your will. You can freeze time for a few seconds to position, say, a car to come down on top of a human. And then there's the Black Hole Gun that sucks in everything in the weapon's immediate area and blows them apart.


As with previous games in the series, you also can command your own personal flying saucer in Path of the Furon. You can use it to simply destroy buildings with your laser, take out attacking helicopters, or sweep down and suck up scores of pedestrians off the roads for use in your own nefarious deeds. The game's visual style remains the same as in the other titles, namely a fun comic book and B-movie poster look. However being on the PS3 and Xbox 360 allows the game to have lots more physics and visual effects that were not possible in the previous games in the series.


If you just like playing and causing lots and and lots of mayhem and don't care for a deep storyline, Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon is looking like it may be for you. Look for the game on the Xbox 360 and PS3 later in September.