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If you're looking for a ground-breaking experience or a robust selection of multiplayer modes- BlackSite's don't offer much more than a weekend distraction--this isn't it. However, if you find the idea of fighting aliens in your own backyard appealing, you won't do better than BlackSite's relatable, the-truth-is-out-there experience.
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77While the game was well paced, there wasn't much depth to the individual gameplay facets used to break up regular running and gunning, and the lack of variety in weapons was disturbing for a shooter.
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I can see FPS fans having fun with BlackSite since it provides all the standard FPS rollercoaster thrills, but most of us have been up and down those hills a few too many times.
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69Whole levels look like they've been done between first and second breakfast. The name seems appropiate though - the sloppyness and laziness of execution may cause players to black out.
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With a disappointingly forgettable story, solid but unremarkable action, and with little else to look forward to in the multiplayer mode, there's not much of a reason to dig for the truth behind this particular conspiracy.
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The game is too linear and the freedom of movement is limited, while Crysis, for example, offers a wider environment to explore. At least if this linearity was sustained by a good gameplay, things might have been different.
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65The game underperforms in every aspect, and although that doesn't make it bad, it certainly makes it a major disappointment for everyone who was anxiously awaiting this game's debut.
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65BlackSite: Area 51 is an ordinary first-person shooter that's held back by a collection of bugs and other issues.
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60Other than the odd set-piece, Blacksite has nothing to warrant recommending it above the other big hitters and some severe technical issues drag it down considerably.
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Apart from exciting moments that are few and far between, the game is dull and uninspiring.
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59It's a shame this isn't a hopelessly bad game, otherwise I could've called it "BlackShite" and been done with it, but instead it teeters on the edge of being a worthwhile purchase before deciding it's comfortable being ordinary and forgettable. [Feb 2008, p.72]
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58Blacksite's biggest issues aren't in the controls, but the lack of what you can do with them, not to mention the horrible enemy A.I.
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56If BlackSite were merely bland, it might be a good time waster, but it has a large helping of technical issues, too. [Feb 2008, p.76]
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54BlackSite: Area 51 features a handful of fun moments blasting giant aliens, but there's too much time spent in forgettable shootouts, the story fails to engage, and it's so riddled with bugs that not even the Orkin Man can feel safe purchasing it.
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53Repetitive, old-fashioned. [Jan 2008, p.86]
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50It's the gaming equivalent of a made-for-TV SF movie in more ways than one, then. Your hoity-toity intellectual forebrain knows you're too good for this candy floss, but your theme-park glands respond nevertheless. [Jan 2008, p.45]
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50Good potential wasted. There are much better shooters out there than this.
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43Five or six hours of totally joyless shooterage. I played this game so you don't have to. Don't let it all have been in vain. [Feb 2008, p.110]
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Blacksite is a thoroughly unexceptional title for which unrealistic promises were made, and one that is further let down by a wide assortment of bugs and design issues. [Jan 2008, p.83]
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40BlackSite the narrative and BlackSite the game never meet in the middle.
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BraydonS7A great story but i must admit the freedom was limited and the graphics could have been better. The Multiplayer modes are really fun aswell.
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TerryD.7