Area 51 [U] ISO

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Your gear is strapped on, your gun is loaded and now you're ready to clean house. As soldiers in the Strategic Tactical Advanced Alien Response (S.T.A.A.R) Team, you have been trained to deal with this exact situation. Your assignment is to penetrate the security of the air base and eliminate all threat of the deadly alien infection that has spread throughout the base. You can't trust any base personnel - you must assume that all of them have been exposed to alien infection. Shoot anything that moves, but be careful not to hit other S.T.A.A.R Team members! 

When it comes to shooting games on the Play Station, there are only a few that really capture the feeling of being in the arcade to a certain degree, with games such as Area 51 being at the front of the line. Giving you plenty of action, mayhem and general destruction at your fingertips, you guide a soldier through an infested compound and take out as many of them as you can without getting yourself killed in the process! What the game gives you is the ability to cause mass destruction without having to shell out several dollars in quarters like you would in the arcade version of this title. Even though the game has it’s fair share of problems that come up while you play mainly with the different forms of visuals and audio defects that you would expect to find in a game like this, it’s still worth kicking out a few bucks to buy or rent and play it through a weekend.

Area 51, Roswell New Mexico, UFO's and Aliens. You've got to get through the most widely known secret base in the world that has been infected with an alien virus, turning those on base into hideous alien creatures. Not a bad storyline to base a shooting game on, almost like one of those ancient aliens trying to take over the world movies that you catch on cable every once in a while. Straightforward shooter. You go into a base, and through it, blasting zombies. Although this game is light gun compatible, you do get a little bored after a while. It does offer up some extra levels, but it takes masterful shooting and practice to gain all of these little extras. It doesn't have much of a replay value after you've found the secret levels, except for a special view of the game, but you'll have to play through and figure it out! With the different bonus rounds that you can find throughout the game, you’ll see that there is plenty that the game can offer as long as you’re willing to take the time and find out where all of these little hidden extras are. With the two-player option, there is nothing more than a little added difficulty and some good times blowing enemies away with handguns, machine guns and even a special mode that uses explosive bullets. The environment around you is completely interactive, and in most cases, destroyed with plenty of shots fired, so if you want to add on plenty of extra carnage, then start firing off on whatever you see!

The control isn’t exactly the greatest that I’ve found in a light gun game, with the main control suffering from different instances of Ghost Control. When you need to have precision on your targets and what you’re aiming for, there are times in which you’ll be shooting but you won’t always hit what it is that you’re looking for! This will come, as something of a disappointment to those who have played the arcade original, in which you don’t have the precision that you once did and your accuracy will suffer greatly because of it.

Not bad, but a little cartoony in some areas. The aliens don't quite look right with an airbrush type look and color scheme on a pre-rendered background. The levels are well drawn, with alot of interaction for you to play with, shooting out the windows and such! Other areas of the game are very well done as you get into the later levels, showing that there is some hope for a genre such as this. Watch the aliens explode when you shoot them, you'll get a laugh. The different bonus stages are also worth taking look at, especially when you unlock later stages that have plenty of action. The action that you see is with the amount of destruction that you cause, especially with the different items and objects that you can shoot and destroy throughout the game! Blown monitors will spark as well destroyed lights and even exploding fire extinguishers and windows that shatter outward from gunfire. It truly brings the feel of extra-added destruction to the eyes and copies the arcade original down to a science.

Moody, real moody. It fits all the areas of the game well, but it does tend to repeat from time to time. The roars of the aliens popping up and exploding when you shoot them come out nice across a stereo system. It can and does get repetitive though, so be forewarned that you will probably toss in White Zombie, or Hank Williams (depending on your choice of music, of course) before long, to listen to that while you blast away. The different areas all have a different music track, but because the game is one of the first generation Play Station games, it really doesn’t have that arcade feel like later games have been able to reproduce! You’ll find that the game has several instances of good sound effects though, with windows blowing outward and otherwise, but when it all meshes together, you have something that really isn’t the best that you’ll hear, but rather a crescendo of noise that can get on the nerves.

Faster than Maximum Force, and it is light gun compatible. But, if your TV has some dust on the screen, the light gun's accuracy goes from good to bad real quick. The controller is still good, and again, the interface allows a faster aiming time, just work with it a bit until you're hitting 100%. Good graphics, pretty good sound, a good storyline, half way decent gameplay compiled with good control, makes this a wonderful game to rent or own. It does have a low replay value, or so I've found, but, if you're into games like this, you'll play it a few times before it becomes a collection piece to be looked at. If you happen to see this title at a used game store, than it really is worth picking up and playing a few times, just to say that you’ve played it. Although it isn’t the best light gun game that there is for the PSX, it really is someplace to start! 

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