Destroy All Humans: Path of The Furon

Destroy all Humans: Path of The Furon for the X-box 360 is the fourth installment in the Destroy all Humans series, and it continues the trend of corny humor mixed with mindless violence.  You play as Cryptosporidium, a horny, homicidal alien who was sent to earth to harvest human brainstems in order to save his race.  Each game takes place in a different decade.  The first game was in the 50s, the second was in the 60s, and Path of the Furon takes place in the 70s.

            Despite being president of the United States in the second game, Crypto has been relegated to a casino owner in Vegas.  He’s been steadily gathering human DNA over the years, but now some mobsters are moving in on him.  Being the trigger-happy lunatic that he is, Crypto slaughters nearly everyone in the town and burns it to the ground, including his own casino.

            This is probably the main reason this game is inferior to its predecessors: the story.  The previous titles gave clear motivation to both Crypto and his enemies, but here the game just throws you into Vegas and says that someone is muscling in on your turf, so you blow up the entire city.  Then you find out they were being helped, so you go and blow up another city, following a trail of breadcrumbs looking for whoever it was that bothered you when all you had to do was kill the mobsters and go back home.

            Most of the old weapons come back in this game along with a few new ones.  I personally enjoy the Venus human trap.  You also get a new saucer equipped with new ways to cause chaos and destruction including a tornado gun.  The abduction beam acts more like a vacuum in this game, automatically sucking up any humans it catches even if you’re holding a vehicle at the time.  Some of the old weapons even get an upgrade; especially the anal probe which can now sodomize multiple targets at once, and my personal favorite, the dislocator disc, also returns. 

Crypto also gets a new super power, the temporal fist.  This allows you to freeze time and use your telekinetic push on multiple targets at once.  He learns this technique from another Furon who takes on the role as your martial arts master, much to the chagrin of your disembodied boss, Pox, who is still a hologram ten years after the second game.  Another body from the second game that is absent is Natalya.  I know that if I had a cloned Russian sex slave, she would never leave my side, yet she isn’t even mentioned here.  I’ve read that this was explained in the previous title, but I haven’t played Big Willy Unleashed.