A weekend with Blacksite: Area 51.

I played it on the easy setting just to get some easy AP's out of it and to get through the story.

If you are looking for a game with frightening aliens and sudden surprises that make you drop your controller.


This ain't going to be it.

It does have some fun dialogue, there is a part when you are driving a hummer through some canals and one of your team mates starts making Star Wars references...that made me chuckle...

Graphics: Not to bad at all, some of the surfaces looked a little flatter that what I am used to but they looked good, someone put some time in on them.

Action: I did it on the easy level, so none of the enemies were all that hard to defeat but their AI was pretty lame, alot of them wouldn't shoot back at you if you were partially behind cover, but you could still pop them pretty easy.

Weapons: I am going to give this one a big meh, I used the stanard earth issue Machine gun, whiche looked like either a M-14 or M16, not sure which, there were some "alien" weapons around, but I left most of them alone really, they weren't all that good. What I did like was that you could run faster with the pistol equpied than you could with the machine gun or with the rocket launcher.

Which is ironic, considering that it means that even though you have a giant rocket launcher on your back, you can still run real fast, as long as you aren't holding it in your hands.

The total game went by in about 5 hours or so, there are only maybe 6 chapters to the whole thing, so it is good if you want a game to spend just the weekend on.

I didn't play any multiplayer, because I just had a feeling it would stink.

There were some glitches that were pretty constant in the game.

Dialogue would try to start during the load screen, which caused it to stutter until start up.

Graphics would freeze when you entered a check point, some objects would appear at random when you passed points in the game, looks like they didn't code them very good really.

Also sometimes if you progressed past a point while someone was talking they would start with their next "thought" and it would overlap the dialogue they were already speaking. So you would have two sentences coming from the same person at the same time.

I give it 3 B-movie aliens out of 5.