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Area 51

Area 51 (XSX) game cover art
Platform: Arcade
Tags: Shooter, Light Gun
Developer: Atari
More Platforms: GameCube, PC, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Saturn, Xbox

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11/??/1995

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Area 51 review

Reviewed June 30, 2011

JoeTheDestroyer says: "It feels like Atari and Midway both invested most of their developing power into the graphics. At the time they were state of the art. Seeing realistic faces in a videogame that wasn't an interactive movie was a game nerd's wet dream. Seeing it put into effect was neat at the time, and it easily distracted people from the fact that Area 51 offered little more than repetitive action. However, such graphics didn't age well. Splicing the real world with semi-rendered environments looks ..."
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