Area 51 sequel: First footage

Saturday 27 January 2007
Cripes! Developer Midway has just released the first movie and images from upcoming extraterrestrial-blaster BlackSite: Area 51, revealing a crowd of fugly-looking alien invaders, all viciously eager to mince the human race into submission. Hit the images tab for more views, or slap your pointer on the movies tab to watch the stunning in-game action footage.

Looming in the background of the movie action is a giant, apocalyptic cloud - the result of the huge explosion at the end of the previous PS2 and Xbox game, Area 51. But this time the aliens are coming from above, not below, and your battlegrounds are the cities and villages surrounding the USA's conspiracy capital.

BlackSite: Area 51 is due for release this summer. We can't wait.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.