Destroy All Humans! Invades the PS4 Today

<p>Out of nowhere&comma; THQ Nordic &lpar;who recently re-branded from Nordic Games&rpar; has released <em>Destroy All Humans&excl; <&sol;em>onto the PS4&period; It is a remastered version of the PS2 classic&comma; and is available on the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;playstation&period;com&sol;&num;&excl;&sol;en-ca&sol;games&sol;destroy-all-humans&sol;cid&equals;UP4389-CUSA05232&lowbar;00-SLUS209450000001">PlayStation Store now for &dollar;19&period;99 USD<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you don&&num;8217&semi;t remember&comma; <em>Destroy All Humans&excl; <&sol;em>was a weird game that I sort of shrugged off when it was released in 2005&period; Developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ &lpar;both of which are defunct now&rpar;&comma; the game followed the adventures of Cryptosporidium 137&comma; or &&num;8220&semi;Crypto&&num;8221&semi; as he was referred to in short&period; Your goal was to harvest the DNA of humans in an attempt to take over Earth&period; The game was set in 1959 America&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reinhard Pollice&comma; who is Business and Product Development Director at THQ Nordic said in a press release that &&num;8220&semi;<em>Remastering the original for PS4 somehow makes every bovine encounter and governmental mishap even funnier – Crypto is at his absolute best on PS4&excl;<&sol;em>&&num;8220&semi;&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m a bit skeptical though&comma; as the game is coming out of nowhere and isn&&num;8217&semi;t priced too highly for a remaster&period; It isn&&num;8217&semi;t listed as a PS2 Classic&comma; but seems to be a full remaster on PS4&period; It does have a Platinum though&comma; so there&&num;8217&semi;s that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fun fact&colon; the game was <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;playstationlifestyle&period;net&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;18&sol;ps2-game-destroy-all-humans-ps4-in-north-america&sol;">accidentally released<&sol;a> on the PlayStation Store back on October 18th&comma; 2016&period; Hence the release date on the Store page stating that exact date instead of November 3rd&comma; 2016&period; Another cause for concern&comma; in my opinion&period; That THQ Nordic was working on a re-release isn&&num;8217&semi;t too surprising though <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;nordic-games-may-resurrect-destroy-humans&sol;">as they teased it back in June<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m curious about the game&comma; but I think it&&num;8217&semi;s likely best to wait for reactions to the game before putting down some cash&comma; unless you&&num;8217&semi;re a diehard <em>Destroy All Humans&excl; <&sol;em>fan&period; Let us know in the comments below what you think of the release&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; THQ Nordic Press Release<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;