Most weapons can only be wielded one handed, however the player can dual wield some weapons, such as the Shotgun and the Sub-Machine Gun. Throughout the game, the player uses a variety of weapons, both Human and Alien in origin, to defeat their adversaries. The player begins with a team of three other HAZMAT soldiers, who cannot be killed by the game world, unless it is scripted into the story. The game features operable machinery, including artillery turrets, besides the player's inventory of weapons. Cray.Īrea 51 is a first person shooter, played from the perspective of the protagonist, Ethan Cole.
Notable among the voice actors are David Duchovny as Ethan Cole, Marilyn Manson as Edgar the ancient and powerful Grey, Powers Boothe as Major Bridges, Nolan North as McCan, and Ian Abercrombie as Dr. Midway through, the player will have to go through shootouts with more intelligent enemies in the form of alien soldiers. The player controls Ethan Cole, a HAZMAT operative sent to the Area 51 base to assist in the cleanup of a mutagenic virus.Īrea 51 at first starts out with intense combat where the player has several AI teammates with him (ranging from two to seven most of the time) versus hordes of mutants. It is a loose remake of the 1995 light gun video game of the same name, and was followed in 2007 by the loosely related BlackSite: Area 51.
It was developed by Midway Studios Austin and published by Midway for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows, silently canceled fo Nintendo GameCube. Area 51 is a science fiction first-person shooter video game that was released in 2005.