Blacksite: Area 51

by Midway

Product Features

• Online Multiplayer Modes: A wide variety fo traditional online modes, such as Death Match, Team Death Match and Capture the Flag, as well as, all-new unique modes created specifically for BlackSite: Area 51.
• One Button Squad Commands: Command your troops to perform a variety fo actions, including planting C-4 to blow doors, sniping enemies in guard towers, or taking control of vehicles - all with one click of a button.
• Incredibly Realistic, Fully Interactive World: From the war-torn streets of Iraq to small town USA, you'll need to use strategic cover points as you blow away your enemies in huge levels where nearly everything you see is destructible.
• As squad commander Aeran Pierce, you lead soldiers who respond to your every order. Lead well and they¿ll rally behind you when the enemy brings the fight, but waver and morale will sink fast, affecting their will to fight.
• Drive the latest military HMMWVs and commandeer civilian vehicles. Take a seat in the gunner¿s position during a daring, low-level helicopter raid against enemy positions. Fight with a range of modern-day Special Forces weapons.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000O5HZTK
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches ; 5.4 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: November 12, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,465 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

Modern day fears explode onto the streets of a small American town swarming with alien life. The government is desparate, struggling to contain secrets so terrible they can no longer be kept. You are Aeran Pierce, a Special Forces assassin thrown into one of the most explosive moments in American history. Everything hinges on your actions in BlackSite: Area 51

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall very good, November 19, 2007

By 

Michele Lembeck - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Blacksite: Area 51 (DVD-ROM)

I think black site has done very well with this game. even though i put 4 stars i think this is 3.5. Graphics are well designed but the programmers should make adjustments with the weapons. Just add more because most of the time you only have a machine gun. Im not saying thats a bad thing its just the game should be a bit more challenging. If they make another patch for this game MAKE MORE WEAPONS! This game looks like its on the border line for being an T-M game. Its a bit like gears of war and halo mixed but just more scary.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A BLACK HOLE OF 51 IDEAS LOST, November 16, 2007

By 

NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Blacksite: Area 51 (DVD-ROM)

I find it hard to like squad shooters. Your squad members are either dumber than the bullets that mow them down or get in your way. This is advertised as a squad tactical game.

Tactics? What tactics? Giving squad orders had never been considered tactics - why should we start now? No, this is in no way a tactical game. Save that description for, say, DEUS EX or even the RAINBOW SIX series.

Moreover, your squad-members respawning subtracts substantially from the game's immersion factor. On the other hand, the enemy AI is quite high. You still can pretty much finish the game by rushing head-first, but the game makes you work - and pay - for it.

Although not cutting edge, the graphics are very nice, the lighting and shadows realistic and the environments and objects are almost all interactive (BLACKSITE-AREA 51 shares the same environment-interaction routines with a much better game, STRANGEHOLD - if you like check out my review on it as well). The conspiracy brewing atmosphere is successfully conveyed - and the weather effects add another nice touch.

On the other hand, the enemy designs they managed to fumble. The aliens are a collection of a mix of poorly developed and, let's say, older ideas.

Do you remember the HALFLIFE crabs? Check.

Do you recall HALFLIFE-2 antlions? Check (only with more horns and with firepower - and a mine that pops out when left for dead).

Do you remember the coffee&nicotine-addicted aliens in MEN IN BLACK? Check (only larger and meaner).

Do you remember the big bug-tank in STARSHIP TROOPERS? Check (only more segmented).

What finally tipped the scale against this game, however, was the poor quality control: clipping was too widespread, stuttering too frequent and freezing unavoidable.

A good effort that barely makes par. The overall feeling of this game is that it got started after a very creative brainstorming - but then was left to develop...itself.

Only for conspiracy buffs willing to overlook its serious flaws. And even then, wait for the price to drop.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blacksite Area 51, December 22, 2007

By 

John C. Markland "hawk1234" (Okla) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Blacksite: Area 51 (DVD-ROM)

Good Game , though the game is a bit buggy and many items in the game are not in real time,the developers need some real time behind some real weapons before they try to make a game,overall it was a good game,needs work

hawk1234

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