Area 51
Area 51 is the only action-packed 1st person shooter set in the U.S. governments most secret and secure military facility. The U.S. Army has received a distress signal from Area 51 where a viral outbreak has…
Area 51 is a shooter developed by Midway Studios Austin, released 25 April 2005 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Area 51 is
Area 51 is a shooter game developed by Midway Studios Austin and released in 2005. It was published by Fargus Multimedia. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
In July 1947, an alien spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in the United States. The craft was recovered by the U.S. Air Force and taken to Area 51 in Nevada, where the lone survivor of the crash, a powerful Grey named Edgar, was held captive by the U.S. military. Eventually, the Greys opened a dialogue with the Illuminati led by the ominous Mr. White (Phil Proctor), and struck a deal with them. The Illuminati would give the Greys a research base 3 miles below the surface of Area 51, the use of the base as a landing site, and give them human test subjects where they, along with human scientists, would research a mutagenic virus to use in a war on their homeworld. In return the Greys…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Area 51 series
Area 51 is the second of 2 entries we hold in the Area 51 series. It arrived 8 years after Area 51. It is the most recent released entry in the series.
How it was received
Area 51 holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 54 votes.
What it launched against
Area 51 launched on 25 April 2005, within three weeks of Psychonauts, SWAT 4, Guild Wars and Jade Empire. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts, SWAT 4, Guild Wars, Jade Empire.
Cheats and codes
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Official trailer
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