Verdict: Rental.
If you don't mind a game poking fun at the current administration and some of the more unethical things it has done... well, you might enjoy shooting aliens in Area 51: Blacksite. It's a gutsy move to make a game so political. The game begins in Iraq, gets weird, and then the characters are fighting for their lives in Rachel, Nevada, a tiny town famous for the rumors of alien crashes and Area 51. The game is powered by the Unreal Engine and looks great overall (although some areas can be on the bland side).
Blacksite is not a bad game, it just doesn't do much except feature a political slant and some squad tactics. The very essence of a rental.
Derik Moore of Gaming Rebellion Writes: "Welcome to another Gaming For Official Use Only. I have wanted to cover this topic for a long time, but I really couldn’t decide on which Area 51 game I would cover. There’s the classic light gun arcade game from the 1990’s, and a fairly forgotten FPS reboot from the 2000’s. I spent too much time trying to figure out which I would cover until it hit me: I don’t have to choose. I’ll cover both before going on to probably the most well known conspiracy theory in mainstream media. Let’s start with the awesome light gun game."
EB's Nat Smyth writes, "Blacksite Area 51 piqued my curiosity when I was a new Xbox 360 owner in 2007, and I had seen it on the shelf too many times in visits to my local Gamestop to pass it up, so I finally bought it. What I got when I played it was a dull, lifeless, and somewhat ugly looking first person shooter that didn’t hold up at all next to the recently released Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare."
Justin from TMSGamer is back for the third, and final part of his article about the worst games he has played on this generation. Remember, these are games only he has played.
