Buh-ooooring

User Rating: 4 | Area 51 (2005) PC
Watching the intro CG movie, I was thinking to meself "Hey, this don't look too shabby." THEN, the CG was over and the actual game graphics raped my jaded eyeballs. "Hey!" I thinks again, "I thought I had a Xbox, not a first generation PSx!" Surely, this was merely just a transitional phase from the sweetly rendered CG to a somewhat sub-standard(for the Xbox) jagged mess of pixelated horror...Nope. This is the game.OK, I thinks again,(this time without all the annoying "")maybe the GAMEPLAY will save this underdone crapfest. WRONG AGAIN my bleeding thumbs scream in agony. Gameplay formula as follows...1) walk into a room B) watch a fairly decent CG scene 2a) Get dumped immediately into a firefight surrounded by an insane number of enemies without a chance to even get your bearings X) swear like a landlocked sailor as you have to sit through the same @#$% CG scene all over again, hoping THIS time you can get away with at least half your health intact rinse/spit/repeat Add to all of this a sloppy aiming system , a really annoying 'floaty' jump and maddening reload animations, you got a recipe for a call to your gaming therapist. To call this complete waste of time a complete waste of time would be a complete waste of my precious time; otherwise, it is fairly uninspired and boring. On the positive side, I saved a bundle with Geico. I really feel like sending these game companies a bill for dented furniture and destroyed controllers(and the Xbox controller is fairly tough). I only gave this an 'easy' rating because there is no rating for 'boring'.