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Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon
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Developer(s)Sandblast Games
Publisher(s)THQ
SeriesDestroy All Humans!
Platform(s)Xbox 360, PlayStation 3,
Release

Genre(s)Third person shooter
Sand box
Mode(s)Single Player, Multiplayer, Co-Op

Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon is the fourth game in the Destroy All Humans! series, mentioned for release at some point during THQ's 2008 fiscal year.[1] The game has been confirmed for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. An entirely separate Destroy All Humans! game, subtitled Big Willy Unleashed, is out now for the Wii system. IGN Pre-E3 2007: Destroy All Humans for Wii Veteran voice actors J. Grant Albrecht and Richard Horvitz will reprise their roles as Cryptosporidium and Orthopox respectively, and the musical score will be preformed by veteran composer Garry Schyman. In Path of the Furon, the destructive alien Crypto is taking on the funkdafied times of the 1970s, adding a bit of disco destruction to the people of earth. Picking up where Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed leaves off, Crypto finds himself attacked by a mysterious new enemy that threatens the entire Furon race. With a conspiracy quickly formed that threatens his way of life, Crypto embarks on a journey to gain enlightenment from an alien Kung Fu master, unlocking new powers that will let him save the Furons once again.

Path of the Furon expands on the open world format of the previous Destroy All Humans! titles -- players will be able to decide what they want to obliterate and what they will spare, with five large open worlds on the ground and in the air (thanks to new augmentations to Crypto's UFO) to obliterate with new weapons and new alien powers (IGN 2007).

Gameplay

Returning weapons

Handheld
  • Zap-O-Matic - An Electrical gun that fires a burst of electricity, electrocuting the target. Objects hit by it turn a glossy, oceanic, neon blue.
  • Ion Detenator - A red plasma bomb that ionises people and destroys vehicles instantly. It can now be used as a sticky bomb.
  • Anal Probe - Will lock on to foes causing to grab their buttocks and run eventually causing their brains to pop out. You can shoot multiple targets with it at once.
  • Disintegrator Ray- fires Molten Plasma that completely turns a person to ashes.


  • Death Ray - A basic but powerful weapon, this heat ray incinerates people and vehicles, and buildings. You can also scar the terrain and buildings and the scar will stay there until the building is destroyed.
  • Quantum Deconstructor - The most powerful weapon on the saucer, it fires a green sphere of destructive power and energy that can take out four city blocks. You can now charge it up to a certain size.
  • Abducto Beam - A beam which can abduct a human to your saucer, or abduct a vehicle and toss them around. This weapon is now a vacuum, so multiple humans will be abducted and then instantly processed.
  • Drain - a beam from the saucer that will pick up cars or other objects and drain them of power (usually destroying them) and that power repairs your ship

New Handheld Weapons

  • Venus Human Trap - This weapon spawns a giant Venus flytrap/Pitcher plant like plant with tentacles that grab objects like people and cars and eats them, giving you DNA and ammo. It can eat on its own or you can feed it.
  • Black Hole Gun - Fires a black hole that sucks anything that isn't nailed down inside or Crypto.

RAINBOW DISLOCATOR - A gun that shoots a bouncing four colored ball of energy with a rainbow tail, that when it hits a target, it picks it up and rams it into the ground until it is destroyed, similar to the Dislocator.

New Saucer Weapons

  • Tornadotron - Forms a tornado that can be controlled or go on it's own track that causes major destruction. It can be activated while the saucer is cloaked.
  • Seeker Drones - Fires a barrage of either air to air or air to ground missiles that seek out humans.They will actually punch through buildings to hit their targets.
  • Plasma Cannon - A rapid-fire chaingun like weapon that fires purple plasma globules that can be used to quickly destroy a target and can leave scars in buildings.

Psychokinetic abilities

Returning abilities

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Confirmed by a Path of the Furon developer on the Gamespot Forums, this is an old image of Crypto using Transmogrify on a human while holding the Disintegrator Ray.
  • Psychokinesis - Also known as PK, this ability lets Crypto move object with his mind but now he can do it to more people at once.
  • Cortex Scan - Crypto can read the minds of humans.
  • Body Snatch - Crypto can steal people's bodies.
  • Brain Extract - Crypto can use his mind to explode the head of enemies and collect DNA.
  • Transmogrify - (commonly referred to as "Transmog") Crypto can use his PK to transform inanimate objects, and now humans, into weapon ammunition.

Note - When using PK, the objects are a haze of purple with sparkles, and Crypto's hand has a purple-blue glow around it.

New abilities

  • Temporal Fist - STOP TIME AND MOVE ANYTHING
  • PK Magnet - An advancement on PK, it creates a magnetic field around the captive and draws any movable object toward it.

Note - Crypto can simultaneously use his PK, jetpack, and weapon AT THE SAME TIME

Locations

Crypto will have five new, open world locations, based on Las Vegas (""), Hollywood (""), Hong Kong (""), Paris (""), and NEXO, on Crypto's homeworld, Gorta.

Plot

Using the money earned from the Big Willy franchise Pox started, he and Crypto have opened a casino with which they use to rake in a steady flow of cash and DNA, but problems have already begun to arise, as the casino have been having attacks from the American Mafia, and not long after that, Crypto finds himself face to face with a conspiracy from his own homeworld, that if not stopped, could destroy them all forever. Having lost his way, Crypto has lost his motivation, and forgotten what it means to destroy humans. Crypto keeps hearing a voice in his head, telling him to go to Shen Long. Crypto then wakes up in a Kung Fu Monastary, greeted by a Furon Martial arts expert, who beseeches him to submit to his tutelage, and train in mind and firepower, to help him defeat these new threats. Now Crypto is about to go down the path to enlightenment, and shape his own destiny, to ultimately be able to Destroy All Humans!

The game will parody 1970s-era movies such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars, and Earthquake.


  • [[Cryptosporidium (Destroy All Humans!)|Crypto 138 is the main character of the series. He is a wise-cracking and sarcastic alien who manages to take control of the USA at the end of Destroy All Humans. Any lives lost causing Crypto 140, 141, etc. is not continued.
  • Orthopox 14 (Pox for short) is Crypto's boss and mastermind behind the invasion of Earth. His current status is second-in-command of the Furon navy.
  • 'The OLD FURON MASTER is an old and seemingly wise Furon, whose psychic powers are very strong. He is shown having an army of monks with him. According to Crypto in a trailer he enters his dreams and calls him. Apparently, the Master knows who is behind Crypto's recent troubles and trains Crypto to unlock powers and weapons.
  • On the Sandblast site, there is a screenshot that shows the known Furons in Path of the Furon. Some speculate that the Furon on the far right is the Furon Emperor.

Development

Changes from previous installments

In the E3 trailer and gameplay videos for Path of the Furon, there are new locations, as well as some new weapons and some new abilities.

  • Almost every weapon has been externally redesigned.
  • Crypto can shoot humans and use the jet pack while using Psychokinesis.
  • Crypto gains the ability to stop time, manipulate objects, and then resume time. Objects can also be directed to fly at others once time is resumed.
  • Crypto can use the saucer's death ray and other weapons to draw on buildings and the ground; these 'drawings' will remain until the building is destroyed.
  • Saucer can abduct more than one human, which are processed instantly.
  • Brain stems will now appear just by killing a human, and they come right to you.
  • The Ion Detonator can stick on targets.
  • The player can now engage in air-to-air battles.
  • The Anal Probe can have more than one target; brain stems are automatically pulled to Crypto
  • Instead of extracting brains or anal probing a person all the player has to do is destroy them to get their brain stem.
  • The Quantum Deconstructor can be charged.
  • There are now flying enemies that can attack the saucer.
  • The Jet Pack has a longer lasting battery.
  • The Saucer has been redesigned, due to Crypto drunk-driving and crashing the original saucer.
  • People now run out of buildings when damage is caused to it, making it easier to collect humans for processing.
  • Important buildings that have been destroyed will remain in ruins throughout the saved game.
  • Seen in the trailer, you may be able to drop out of the saucer any time.
  • Pox is still a hologram, but his HoloPox unit now has extendable arms, with which he can gesture and interact with things.
  • The game now goes through day and night.
  • The game will feature real-time weather.
  • Cars will actually dent, bend, and crumple when hit, and will create sparks when dragged across a stone or concrete surface.
  • There is much more traffic, in the saucer and on foot. This makes for much more destruction.
  • Objects in PK can be moved around more easily hence being mapped to its own trigger.
  • Cars will have much more realistic movements when moved around or thrown.
  • Electricity will now surge through electrical wires when damage is caused to them.
  • The game has been confirmed to have multiplayer. Multiplayer modes include Online, Split Screen Co-op, and Split Screen Compeditive. According to creative director John Knowles in an interview with IGTV, the 5 worlds will change accordingly to fit multiplayer purposes.

Release and development

The game does not have a set release date yet, but THQ is deciding on a date between May and September of 2008. The game is not yet complete. Developers say that it isn't far off, but it is not yet complete. In April, there has not been a set date, but there will be a huge media surge with all new updated screenshots, videos and general information on the game. Which will ultimately spawn advertising and a planned release date.

Destroy All Humans! Crypto Does Vegas

Destroy All Humans! Crypto Does Vegas is a recently announced Mobile phone version of Path of the Furon. In the game, Crypto must zap tourists and gamblers to find the best DNA possible in Sin City. The game only features four weapons which are the zap-o-matic, the plasma blaster (a disintegrator-like weapon), highly explosive disintegrater grenades, and the gloom ray, an instant depression ray.

References

  1. ^ "Red Faction, MX to Return THQ lists six franchises for its fiscal future". 2007-02-02. Retrieved 2007-10-25. - THQ CEO Brian Farrell mentions work on the Destroy All Humans franchise for the 2008 fiscal year.
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