Monday, May 14, 2007

Area 51: Black Site, Xbox 360 teaser

Negatives:
  • takes too long to load.
  • is ridiculously short in duration, especially for the size of the download! (but I guess it is a "teaser"...).
  • looks like a low rent Gears of War.

Positives:
  • team commands are lightweight and seem to make an actual difference e.g. direct your teammates to attack a specific target and they normally do a reasonable job.
  • special effect the demo closes with is cool (but "solid" objects passing through the characters is definitely not).

Verdict:

Not overly impressed but I seem to remember the demos for its predecessor being inconsistent too; I liked the squad-based-shooter-y type one but was not so keen on the i'm-changing-into-an-alien one (maybe it was better in context?).

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