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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: April 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The U.S. Army has received a distress signal from Area 51 where a viral outbreak has just shut down the research facility. A small Hazardous Materials unit led by specialist Ethan Cole is sent to investigate. As Cole, players will delve into the mysterious confines of Area 51, discovering a deadly mutagenic side effect of the virus that controls the minds of those infected, as well as an ancient alien colony buried beneath the facility. Chilling conspiracies such as the extraterrestrial crash at Roswell and the staged lunar landing, are investigated in order to solve the enigma of Area 51 before the viral mutagen is released and irrevocably mutates all life on Earth.

its alright...but

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

it has a decent story, great play, great weapons...but, it took a long time to load because of the damn check disc, it would load with sound but not audio, david D couldve done a better job of acting...marilyn manson did a a better job if that says anything, and sometimes the story did get stale.

Great game, once

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'll counter the person who filled out a review based on the demo. In the full game it is made clear why there are enemys behind you when you go back. For the most part you can clear an area and walk back, to a point, without issue, however some parts of the game you need to go forward and then back where you came from is now restocked with bad guys.

I did have similar problems with the reticle shift making it a real bear to use the sniper rifle as I couldn't smoothly site on a target. This was a machine issue and turning off my AV and running the program right after boot got rid of the problem.

David Duchovny's voice acting is great, if you're a fan of his X-Files character as it is pretty much along the same lines.

The graphics are first rate. Enemy AI for the most part isn't much, but considering they are mostly zombies what do you expect?

Worth Every Penny!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After playing Quake 4 and Doom 3 this game rules. And a lot less money!!! One minor set back is that there is no quick save and ( If Set ) an auto level save. Graphics are great and the story is far better than many movies I have seen. Get it!!!

One of the best games ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is AWESOME! Non-stop action, very challenging, and super fun to play. The guns are awesome, mutating into an alien is awesome, and in the beginning when you fighting with your teammates is also AWESOME!

BUY THIS GAME!

Wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: June 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As a huge fan of FPS games (I've been playing Counter-strike and CS:Source for a LONG LONG time) I have incredibly suprised as the quality of this game.

It's very fun to play and the storyline is great. I would recommend this to any FPS fans anywhere.

Area 51 Did Not Work With My Dell P4 PC

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: June 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I Had Problems getting the game to work on my PC. The video was whitewashed. If I moved my mouse to point away from the foward directional view I could see the graphics correctly, but as soon as I moved the view back to foward directional almost everything wash whitewashed, thus making gameplay impossible.

Great game for a great price

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game, dark spooky atmosphere. And I got it sealed at a great price.

Area 51 Video Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed a lot of things about this game but it "crashed" frequently even though running on a high-end Nvidia card, 3G processor and 1G RAM. I have no idea what was the deal with that. I may try installing it again (for the 3d time)and see what happens this time. It has all the normal goodies a FPS expects except you didn't pilot any aircraft or ground attack vehicles. There's an added bonus of being able to switch into an alien and whack the bad guys. The sniper rifle was pretty useless but the thing that shot blazing balls of energy was effective. It would have been better if they hadn't killed your buddies off early in the game. Overall, OK; price was certainly right. Oh, yes, someone else commented that there's no quick save. That was irritating as well.

A Sci-Fi Epic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Lush graphics, great sound. these are just some of the things goin for Area-51. I have played the game over and over in single-player and i love the intense multi-player. Both are well worth the price, Well Worth It.

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