The story is hilarious in itself. You're a clone of an alien, the 300th or 500th (some special number we can't remember right now) one of a certain alien from a distant planet, and you're told to go back to one of your old colonies where DNA as been planted long ago to help save your race from a weakened and failing bloodline. You travel via the classic flying saucer to Earth and realize you know knowing about it -- which creatures are smart, which aren't, and which ones dominate. Naturally, being an alien, you think that cows are the smartest creatures on the planet, so a significant amount of time is spent trying to get cows to give you information. This is about as alien as they come folks.
But you do eventually move on from cows, and figure out finally that humans are what you're after. Players can travel via foot or through the air in their upgradeable spaceship. On foot, you can sizzle humans by laser gun, but a much more entertaining way is to use your alien powers. You can levitate or use a jetpack to move around; you can hypnotize humans, commanding them what to do and where to go, you can harvest their brains, or you can corral them and scare the heck out of them. Or, you can temporarily take over their bodies -- without anyone else knowing -- and life their lives.
The amount of dark humor one can have on ground is tremendous, and though this game sounds a little goofy, maybe a little abstract, just think of it like this: It's like Grand Theft Auto, except you're an alien with near ultimate powers to jack humans, abduct animals, cars, and humans for research, or cause large scale destruction just for the fun of it.
The environments, naturally, are destructible, and you can explore the five vast 1950s American landscapes using your arsenal of alien abilities (hypnotize, body-snatch, read minds, levitate, kill, etc.). Weapon-wise, players can arm themselves with a glut of alien weaponry on land or in the air, including the Ion Detonator, the Zap-O-Matic, the Sonic Boom, or even the Quantum Deconstructor -- used to eradicate those silly, feeble humans.
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