Area 51 Patches

Picked up Area 51 at Target the other day for $4

I got this game on a whim and I was really surprised by it.

No it's not a HL2 killer or anything like that, but it was really quite enjoyable. If you find it for cheap I'd recommend it.

It had a lot of small touches that made it memorable, like when you used your melee attack, you'd smash people with whatever gun you had equipped Halo style, but the cool thing I found was if you went to town on someone, each weapon has a combo of sorts, like the shotty, you'd hit em straight on with it, then the next hit you'd bring the gun in like a left hook, then the last hit would bring the butt of the gun down on top of their head. It made the melee much more believable.

Also, you could akimbo almost all the weapons in the game, the best was the shotty. Normally primary fire was one barrel and alt was both barrels, when you had them akimbo, primary was 2 barrels and alt was all 4 at once. That'd kill almost anything in the game and send 'em flying. Very satisfying.

Also since the game was a console release, it has unlockables, not extra levels or anything, but video clips of researchers and a G-man type guy expositing about the backstory and lots of juicy government conspiracy type stuff.

In fact the only complaint I have about the game at all is David Duchovney’s voice over work, which thankfully only occurs during the cutscenes. It’s so flat and monotone. Someone get the man some NoDoze or something.

Again, it’s not an AAA title, and it doesn’t really offer anything a vetran gamer hasn’t seen before… of course neither did Quake 4, but it’s definitely worth a few bucks and will keep you entertained for a weekend.