Area 51 Demo

Ev!L-aLphA

Midway has released a single-player demo for Area 51, offering the first opportunity to determine whether "the truth is out there" in this sci-fi first-person shooter that has a lead character voiced by David Duchovny. This humongous download contains an extensive cinematic introduction and a portion of the full where the player has lost his team and continues to explore alone.

Get the demo at 3D Gamers

MSX

It's 700 megs!

I mean what the hell is it? Half the game or some crap?

Ev!L-aLphA

welcome to year 2005 where games are about 3-6 gb.

MIG-31

Just downloaded this demo...... much better than i were expecting. quite a long intro but worthwhile.

Decent graphics also,runs petty smooth... may ad this to my wanted list..

BWX

That's probably only 1/8 of the size of the entire game, if that. My Doom3 folder is up to about 6.4GB...

MSX

After playing it a bit I'm a bit let down with the graphics. I can let go that some of them are streached and washed out in the maps, but not on the guns.

Even a low poly gun can be incredibly convincing with the right textures. I mean, these things are right up close and you see them all the time. It's not so bad when your playing a 3rd person game, but 1st person games require a bit of detail on things that you have to look at all the time. I find it just sloppy, and it really sticks out.

Graphics need work but the atmosphere is good. So I'll buy it.

BWX

Crappy textures? What video card/ and settings in game and in the GFX card control panel are you using?

CDsDontBurn

is there any other site i can d/l the demo w/o needing to register for the website???

Vasot

Score 75 out of 100 for me
It's Plain good but nothing really Great

I think i will keep my money for something better

BWX

350KB/sec on 3D Gamers Bittorent.

dj_stick

i think i'll leave this be

i'n on dial up atm

Vasot

Some Area51 Scores are not so good either


GAMESPOT AREA 51 Review (Score only 7.2 out 10)
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/area51/review.html

TOTAL GAMES NET Area 51 Review (Score only 73 out of 100)
http://www.totalgames.net/pma/21784

STUFFMAGAZINE Area 51 Review (Score 6.5 out of 10)
http://www.stuffmagazine.com/hype/review.aspx?id=8938

1UP Area 51 Review (Score 6.5 out of 10)
http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3139917&did=1

No_Style

I played the demo on the PS2. It was ok.

Smilez

hmmp, the demo crashes after pressing *start new game*. Im running 2500+ barton, nforce 2 and r9800 pro :/ Sucks imo

studbagel9

Well, compared to the original Area 51 port for PC (remember the arcade game?) I give this game a 1000%. As a modern FPS, it's fairly decent... better than a lot of other games in my opinion (Has anyone managed to get their hands on Firestarter? It's so horribly, hopelessly, abyssmally bad it's good).

MSX

9800 Pro, latest omegas. The shotgun is the biggest eyesore.

BWX

Going to finally install it now.. By the sounds of it it's nothing special.. what did you think of the controls? Is it a simple control scheme? (better) Or a one button for every single action scheme? (horrible, like America's Army)





EDIT
Yeah the textures were a little bland- hope they are better when released.
An ok game though, definitely missing some options- antialiasing didn't do anything to the guns, etc.. crazy bloom affect going on.

It also needs a serious FOV adjustment- feel like I am looking through binoculars. When it comes out it might be ok though, I wanted to keep playing for sure.

CDsDontBurn

got to play it here at work. i like it pretty well so far. graphics need to be tweaked a little bit...too many jaggies for me @ 4x/8x . I like it though.....i give it 7/10.

BWX

the moon scape was cool...