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BlackSite: Area 51

Also known as: Black Site: Area 51, Blacksite: Area 51 [UK]

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Despite beautiful graphics, BlackSite falls short in the area most crucial to any good videogame: gameplay.

Genre: Shooter
Release date: Nov 12, 2007
Published by: Midway
Developed by: Midway

Multiplayer Modes:

Online

10 player VS

5 SO-SO
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Features

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Midway scrambles to wrap up production on BlackSite: Area 51 in time for the holidays.

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Blacksite in November For Pc and 360

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Midway: Halo 3 will help BlackSite sell

BlackSite publisher reckons it can benefit from going up against Halo 3

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Review

Yet another forgettable FPS

Nov 16, 2007

Nov 16, 2007 With all of the great first-person shooters spinning in Xbox 360 drives this holiday season, BlackSite: Area 51 is bound to get lost in the shuffle. And unfortunately, that dishonor is deserved. Despite impressive graphics and impressive demos that had us begging publisher Midway to move its release date - which they did, but not far enough - BlackSite falls short in the area most crucial to any good videogame: ...

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Previews

BlackSite: Area 51

Nasty aliens, big guns and... political subtext?

Jul 25, 2007

BlackSite: Area 51 is an amalgamation of everything we've seen a million times before. It's got aliens invading our planet. It's got beefy soldiers running around and shooting those aliens. It's even got the generic desert landscapes on which such clichéd action invariably unfolds. So why, in a holiday season packed with triple-A marquee shooters, are we still so excited to play it? The answer is buried beneath the game's testosterone-laced surface. Despite all the sci-fi military ... » Read Full BlackSite: Area 51 preview

BlackSite: Area 51 - updated impressions

Blast them aliens back to Uranus

Jul 18, 2007

Harvey Smith, famed for his work on Deus Ex, sits on the edge of the stage as if about to talk about some new theater production. In fact hes getting comfortable in a Soho cinema and talking to us about BlackSite: Area 51- the Unreal 3.0-powered squad-based shooter and increasingly distant sequel to the inexplicably popular Area 51. Astonishingly, the BlackSite team has opted to have “seamless drop-in drop-out” co-op throughout the single-player game. “At every turn co-op has ... » Read Full BlackSite: Area 51 preview

BlackSite: Area 51

Alien invaders are never friendly

Jun 13, 2007

Its a breath of fresh air to see a next-gen FPS that doesnt use Modern Historys favorite bad guy - the Nazi - as rifle-fodder in war-torn Europe. What about the war thats been raging ever since little green men invaded our turf in 47? We all believed that Will Smith landed a decisive victory for mankind - as seen in political documentary Independence Day; but it seems the aliens have returned for vengenace in Midways BlackSite: Area 51. BlackSite eschews the camp of the original, going the ... » Read Full BlackSite: Area 51 preview

Blacksite: Area 51

America's worst-kept secret

Feb 1, 2007

BlackSite returns to its wacky alien conspiracies as its starting point and twists them into something ten times worse. The first game had you exploring Area 51 in the aftermath of a viral outbreak that turned scientists into mutants, leading to the discovery of an entire alien colony buried beneath the secret ... » Read Full BlackSite: Area 51 preview

BlackSite: Area 51 - hands-on

They definitely did not come in peace

Jan 26, 2007

If you like your science fiction kitschy, you've come to the wrong place. And if you like your alien invasions to involve tin-plated saucers, ray guns and adorable egg-headed extraterrestrials, BlackSite: Area 51 is not the game for you. The aliens here are big, mean and freaky. Seriously, disturbingly freaky. Even after getting hands-on time with the upcoming first person shooter, we're nowhere close to figuring them out. We encountered the first tearing off a car's door, reaching inside with ... » Read Full BlackSite: Area 51 preview

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