| Area 51 Platform: PC, PS2, Xbox, GC Genre: 3D-Action Developer: Midway Publisher: Midway Project website: www.area51-game.com Requirements: P-4 1.4, 256Mb RAM, 64Mb Video On Earth, is full of places that in the minds of most people associated with all sorts of mysteries and riddles. Bermuda Triangle, Chernobyl, Tibet and the legendary Shambhala - are just a few of them. Wormed among such attractions and Area 51. Rumor has it that it was there that the Americans kept shooting down the plates and the corpses of aliens, over which the experiments were conducted mysterious ...
TV reporters have long chosen by a secret base, firing bessmetnoe number of films and documentaries, in one way or another connected with the Zone 51. Not kept pace with fellow television and gaming industry. And the championship belonged to the same Midway, was issued in the late 80's for slot machines toy Area 51 - a fun shooting with a light gun. In 1996, the year the project has been ported to the PC, but failed to gain much popularity. And now, after almost ten years, Midway decided on another attempt, firing FPS Area 51.
Over the years, developers could not think of a more or less sane plot. Again at the closed base is some sort of catastrophe, and a detachment of soldiers led by our hero Ethan Cole has to go to the wilds of a mythical area 51 to clarify the situation. Was this tie did not like? If not, you must have not played a shooter. Indeed, almost every third game of this genre can boast of such a seed. Maybe come up with something more original for the game, whose Marine unit are tied to the secret base (though Mars, though the earth), is not easy. But there are studios that even the most banal idea can turn into an exciting story. Relax, Midway is not one of them. Developers do not have to strain your gray matter, once again betraying to the surface a story about the adventures of a valiant fighter for world peace at the expanse of a single secret base.
At first, a little variety to your life partner, which ugorazdilo stick to a secret area behind the main character. However, this time worked out very badly. First, our own brains of your colleagues are absent, by definition, the rules of their stupid scripts.So do not expect from brothers in arms displays ingenuity and action as appropriate. Secondly, whether because of its natural stupidity, whether by intention of the authors, companions quickly killed by a hail of enemy fire, leaving Ethan alone with the horrors of Area 51. Livestock monsters does not make some kind of diversity in gameplay. The soldiers, members of the base, got infected by some virus and transformed into horrible mutants, as well as indispensable gray-green men rod at you with such an enviable constancy, that after a while they even stop to discriminate. Seen - shot, and in the business somehow. Arsenal is a collection of abstract guns, almost all of which we had to meet in the other action games .. Over, there are original designs, but to use them so uncomfortable that take into account such guns not even worth it. Oh yeah! From the same machine or shotguns allowed us to shoot with both hands. It would seem a good idea, but my implementation again podkachala. A bit too quickly at such a firing ammunition expended, and the effectiveness akimbo is not too high. Well at least flashlights to vending machines smart enough to tie.
There is, in Area 51 and some interesting moments, which unfortunately lacks a quality of detail that some other parts. Taking their cue from Painkiller, and The Suffering, developers are allowed to Ethan (is contagious mysterious virus), at a certain time to turn into a mutant, ready to tear to pieces any counterclaim. In this guise of the protagonist can not use firearms. The image is blurred, and all live objects are highlighted, causing the enduring association with Painkiller. Unoriginal, but it'll do for a change. Another bright spot - the last levels of the game whose action takes place in the newcomers. After a dull gray corridors of the base shelter alien looks pretty cool, but more frequent battles with the apostates do not give bored. Pleasantly surprised by the sound. Juicy gunfire and explosions, coupled with well-chosen soundtrack create a great atmosphere, then pumping the player fear, cheerfully escorting another brawl. With voice acting all the characters are also in order. David Duchovny, who was invited to voice the main character, worked his fee by 100%. And Marilyn Manson, pokryahtevshy the voice of the evil aliens, tried as best I could. While his remarks sometimes laugh more than scare.
But with all the graphics are much worse than the sound. Cross-platform nature of Area 51 in all its glory is manifested in the muddy textures, squalid rooms monotonous and rather primitive models. No, the graphics engine the game is not a bad or outdated. Just on the background of an abundance of beautiful shooters such as Doom 3, Far Cry, Half-Life 2 or the same Pariah, Area 51 looks like a middling clerk, who was invited to the party of millionaires. It seems to be also in a suit, but the effect is not the same. In physics, too, are created some strange things. Attempts to use their own physics engine led to predict that the behavior of a thrown object is almost impossible. And how then fly carcasses opponents after volley of stationary cannons! Newton would be after such a spectacle went and hanged himself at the nearest apple tree.
Area 51 - a typical product of mass consumption.Average graphics, design inarticulate and primitive plot almost drove the toy in a coffin. Of the final massacre of the gamers and journalists Area 51 saves only the gameplay, which, despite an abundance of flaws, sometimes delays are not a child. And some things can cause a respect for the developers. Those videos are made for five and create a great atmosphere. However, the advantages of games lost against the background of the general dullness and heaps of flaws that had killed almost all the original ideas. Gameplay: 7 Graphics: 6.5 Sound and Music: 7 Design: 6 Estimation of the author: 6.5 Outcome: 66% |
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