Destroy All Humans! (2005)

Developed by Pandemic Studios and released in 2005 for the PS2 and Xbox^[1], *Destroy All Humans!* casts you not as an Earthling resisting invasion but as Crypto, a Furon alien piloting a flying saucer to harvest human DNA across a spoof of 1950s America. The saucer comes fitted with a death ray and an abduction beam — the classic flying-disc archetype (see the catalogue's flying disc / saucer). The whole game lovingly copies the look and tone of period invasion B-movies, dragging the era's Red Scare and saucer craze on stage to be mocked.