Destroy All Humans! is an action-adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The game is set in 1959 in the United States, and parodies the lifestyles, pop culture, and political attitudes of this time period. The player controls Cryptosporidium 137 (a reference to the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium), a member of the fictional Furon race of alien life, who has come to Earth to harvest DNA from humans to continue the cloning process of his species.