Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed

The original was a fun but flawed game and I admit I have never played the second entry in the Destroy All Humans series. I figured I'd give this one a go since it's on the Wii and figured anal probe + wii controls = instant fun. I was delusional.

Our alien friends have been taking people and making them into food in their new restaurant chain, which I believe is called Big Willy or the msscot is at least. Now the government is onto them and they need to cover their tracks. The plot works but it isn't as funny as it's trying to be, a lot of jokes fall flat and I rarely found msyelf laughing.

Perhaps the problem with the plot falls on the heads of the voice actors. The guy who plays the main alien is doing a very bad impersonation of Jack Nicholson. The music has a catchy 70's disco flair to it at times and feels like a running joke as it constantly happens. Burn Baby Burn Disco inferno when you're burning down buildings. It got old after a while.

Graphically this game is poor all around. The locations are rather small and lack any sort of detail. It's like playing a badly animated movie except the game isn't cel shaded or anything. Enemies also tend to all look the same. This is one of the weakest games on the Wii, graphic wise.

Wii controls are hit or miss, depending on the title. This time around we have a very smooth camera control which works great and actually the entire control setup works as the alien. Once you start flying the UFO is where thinks get nasty as you need to roll the Wiimote to turn, but it turns so slow that it almost doesn't feel worth it and you find yourself having to keep rolling, go back and repeat just because it doesn't turn fast enough or far enough.

The actual game play becomes monotonous rather quickly, much like the original game. Run here, kill these, do this. It’s like Grand Theft Auto but with a very bland world and the only thing keeping this series alive is its humor.

Like I said before though, the humor tends to fall flat and when all you have is the generic game play it dawns on you that the game isn’t really worth playing all together. Not that it’s terrible, it just isn’t very good and it shows in its presentation.

Fans should rent it as it’s very short and anyone else should just pass this one by. The next game is hitting the 360/PS3 this summer/fall and I doubt it could be worse than this so I say wait for it or just buy one of the older games as they are chapter now and the original is definitely better than this one.

Story – 5/10
Graphics – 5/10
Sound – 6/10
Control – 7/10
Game Play – 6/10
Replay Value – 4/10

Final Score – 5/10