@@MrHammers Thanks man, that is really kind of you. The online community of this game was so passionate about it. There was about 100 of us that kept the servers populated for a long time. Most of us knew each other by name, and some of us are still friends to this day. We would spend hours trying to glitch our way out of the maps - or host 1v1 / 2v2 tournaments. One of our members even built an entire website that mirrored Gamebattles to help us keep track of who was winning the tournaments we organized.
I'm convinced that, back in the day, we only started playing "zombies" on halo 2 because we were trying to replicate the absolute BANGER of an experience this game's MP gave us, in the before times of no matchmaking and such. o7
This game could have used a remaster with upscaled resolution since you need a lot of patches to play it properly on PC, the FOV of the PC version is awful.
Marilyn Manson voice acting an alien named Edgar has to be among the most underappreciated voice cast decisions in gaming. His voice really stood out to me, when I was younger & makes alot of sense
I gotta admit I wasn't a fan of it at first, he sounded super uninterested in the work. But as I rewatched all the cutscenes after playing, the voice fits Edgar perfectly. He's an alien thats been held captive and tortured for 60+ years, I'd sound hopeless as well. He outshined David Duchovny for sure
@@MrHammers I understand that transitioning from live-acting to voice-acting isn't something that all actors can do, but my God Duchonvy sounded so bored in this game.
@@HunterShark300 Vocal Fry voices always seem appealing to me. Marilyn Manson, Rihanna, & Corey Taylor are some vocal fry voices that have always stood out to me
when I was young I used to play the levels up to the part when you lose all your squad mates and would be all alone. I'd always turn the game off then because I was too scared to play with no teammates
This was a game that I will forever remember from my childhood. It always scared me so much every time I booted the game that I would just stop playing the game and play something else like (Ratchet & Clank Going Commando or MGS2/3). But, I still managed to finish it back in the day when I mustered up the courage. Great video my guy! Thank you so much for making this!
It was the same for me, I would play in a dark room always and I'd get scared after getting killed in a hard level but kept on pushing through, it was a great game.
Yeah, when I played this as a kid, I found it pretty fun, but also kinda hard to continue from about that point where you get infected and have to face the alien soldiers, which bummed me out since it was basically dealing with hitscanners just like in any other shooter of that time. The beginning just stuck out to me too much and it was way too good lol, the mystery behind this base and some unknown virus which turns humans into some really creepy creatures which aren't flesh eating zombies (well, almost) was something new to me, the atmosphere was interesting, and it was the first game where the horror was so much to handle for me, that when the scientist broke the window and went through that disgusting mutation process, I actually stopped playing and asked my older brother if he could continue this part for me xD. He made fun of me for that, but after about a minute he went kinda silent, and, while he tried his best to not show it, I could tell he was starting to get creeped out himself lmao (but to his credit, he actually had the balls to keep playing unlike me). Despite never finishing it, I didn't regret the purchase.
@@velocilevonit was definitely frontloaded and lost momentum around the mid way point. I haven't played it since I was a kid, and I still remember parts of it, so that says something
Anybody else remember unlocking this game demo in Mortal Kombat: Deception??? One of my favorite little easter eggs in gaming, it wasn't until I got older I realized this game wasn't a fever dream 😂
Bruh!!!! I was trying to remember how I had memories of playing a demo of this game xD that makes so much sense...i spent so much time playing deception and unlocking things in that graveyard thing 🤣
@@born2biscuit true. When I was younger I didn't get to unlock anything in that game since I didn't know how to do a profile to actually obtain stuff there, yet the demo of this game was there from the beginning. No need to unlock anything of the sort, just already there if you searched the menu enough.
I think Isaac Clarke is a little bit more of the every man since he was essentially the future's version of a Geek squad tech. This guy is on an emergency response team trusted enough to enter one of the most closed off military instillations in the whole world. Even if he's on the lower spectrum it's not as everyman. Isaac definitely has more personal reason for taking the mission. Anyways there is something you said that I really like. It's when you talk about the horror experienced when destruction and chaos meet the mundane (the Ishimura and the Sprawl etc.) I really like that. it makes a lot of sense
That's fair, Isaac isn't a soldier and definitely not combat trained. Cole has that edge over him, but it's still close enough to compare them and thier games. Neither of them are doom guy or master chief or anything but they still save the world haha. And yeah, thats what makes horror work to me personally. Silent hill is another great example of this. It creates a great atmosphere
@@MrHammers oh cool! I always really like hearing back from the creator themselves. Sometimes it's weird but UA-camrs don't always seem like real people, like you're characters. It's not easy to explain but hearing from ya in the comments bring you into realty so thank you and great content, man! Your Dead Space content is my favorite. If they revamp that shit you need to get on that. Bring the hammer 🔨 down on that nail
The only thing I remember about this game is two cutscenes, the one where the scientist smashes the window and turns into a mutant, and the other one where a mutant rips one of your team mate's head off
All i remember is Marilyn Manson did the voice for the alien and that you could shoot these leech things out of your hand. At least i think this is from the same game.
Loved everything midway released back on ps2, I still remember being too afraid to walk out of my cell at the beginning of the suffering. I miss the quality control of the ps2 era
Love the fact they used David Duchovny for voicing the protagonist considering his close involvement with UFO's etc in The X Files. Always thought it was a good choice!
Probably because it came to close to the truth with a virus ( COVID ) and forced vaccinations, released on the public, also I hate using the word Illuminati because it's cleche but there are definitely people behind the world stage that pull the strings of humanity.
@Bastián Ríos Madrid kinda yes. It follows what happened with that thingamabob the truck was taking at the end of the game. And that's about the only connection both games have..
I spent 21 years in the Air Force and I remember them sponsoring this lol. Side note, I had a buddy that worked over at Area 51 and I spent some time just on the other side of the mountain for a short spell. The only thing that I remember about this game is the ominous title screen and music.
Things I remember; always the cutscenes- the hidden dialogue, “his skin melted off” “they just lost one team and now they’re sending another” “fascinating”- the last one is in the medical tent but is difficult to get playing- maybe only after the barrel boss? Oh and scanning stuff- scanning enemies and bosses while alive. The first time you meet the alien parasite in a busted jar- the sounds they make… The death light bridge that kills you if you touch it- but you can inch along the beams to avoid about a dozen or two enemies. The UFO in the level Blue Book- and firing it’s canon The Theta- and that you can kill it in the fashion it was originally to have died- scan the tank at the first level and read how the acid is suppose to kill the things once exposed to air. That headshots with the pistol are 100% instant death as opposed to other guns besides the sniper. When entering the aliens weapons you can see all those tanks- and zoom in and you see Thetas. A good moral question in the lab Torture the infected to death or leave them there? Which is better? Also the possibility of one of them being a scientist that’s mentioned a scan in the room- a datalog on suicide. I remember the extras, Romeras and so on are a bit funny and the calm logs of Gray, and how giddy White is. Also “touch the rail” Pain noises “How did it feel?” “It’s hot.” “That’s wrong, it should be cold, touch it again.” Pain noises “Correction, it was cold.” XD Nice comedy- until you realize you talk to your boss for the last time later in the mission Edit Also you can cap the aliens before the portal
Dude a remake of this game would KILLLLL. The storyline is so good. Atmosphere so good. Voice acting so good. Someone has to make that happen. Amazing game. So underrated.
When I was a kid it always bothered me that the main character was the only one on the team w/ no gloves on lol. This dude has a whole hazmat suit on w/ bare ass hands 😆
And yet Cole has gloves in every cutscene he's featured in prior to his mutation. So I'm gonna assume that originally he was supposed to be bare handed AFTER his transformation, but the devteam somehow messed up with his viewmodels and decided to leave them the way they are as it was too late to fix anything before the release.
I really liked David Duchovny, his voice had a certain surreal dreariness to it that really added something to the game for me. Like someone who knew he was being sent to his death from the very beginning.
@@MrHammersI loved the Suffering, I got it for my 360 as I've been on a collecting tangent... It was one of the first games that I bought when I started, I had Simpsons Hit and Run for years, also, I was enthralled by the PAL cover of the Suffering, kinda sad that Ties That Bind wasn't made compatible
My tinfoil hat is telling me that this game is secretly a documentary with its details leaked by an informant to the devs, but that's just silly. Or is that just want they want us to believe?
The only thing I remember from this game was the death of the first squadmate where he gets his head ripped off. That moment stuck with me all these years later
Never ended up playing this but I can vividly remember reading about it in IGN or Gamepro. Consensus was Midway was crazy for trying to attach a plot and characters to an arcade game.
"Midway was crazy for trying to attach story and characters to an arcade game" like with Mortal Kombat lol? I mean I guess they still went out of business but at least they got 33 mil in exchange
I’m getting a steam deck just to play this gem I never got to beat it when I was younger I never could get passed the part when your team head gets ripped off it’s kinda funny how everyone only remembers that part hahaha
13:08 I remember something fun you could do with the scanner is scan your teammates and they'd give funny responses like "Great! Now I can't have kids!" or if you scan yourself after you get infected by looking all the way down Cole will say "I'm not... Human anymore."
I remember first playing this game on a PS2 demo disk, that also had demos for Killzone 1 and BLACK. The small spider-like aliens that jumped at you would always scare the crap out of me lol
I remember renting this game not knowing what to expect (We went to the video store like every other weekend and I'd always get a game) I kinda just grabbed it cuz I didn't see anything else I wanted to try. Ended up falling in love and re renting until I beat it Then we beat it coop too
Absolutely loved this game when it came out. Nice sci-fi story to keep 13 year old me invested, and the online multiplayer was phenomenal back in the day.
I'm jealous you got to play online, I never had the adapter for my PS2 but I used to play split screen with a friend and had a blast with that. Getting to play as a mutant competitively was slick kinda ahead of its time
@MrHammers I don't know if it's still up but Project Dreamland is a PC upscaled version of the game worked on by some fans allowing the freeware version to be played without GameSpy. Project Dreamland had multiplayer servers but given that that was in 2017 and its tough to find the download file nowadays I have no idea if anyone's playing matches.
12:30 if I remember correctly meleeing enemies while in mutated form gave you more mutation ammo. So basically you can throw your parasites to get hp, melee a few enemies to get more parasites doing a never ending cycle.
Then later on, you picked up that special Alien BBG weapon, which fired three-round bursts of sticky explosive energy balls and infinitely recharged its ammo.
I KNEW that was David Duchovny!!! I saw him earlier in this video and thought maybe it was just a look alike but no that’s him! Makes sense he’d be in this game! Loool!
I remember having fun playing the infection mode of multiplayer since I was one of those bastards that could always find rediculous hiding spots. One map has a pit and there are tiny ledges you could drop onto. It also doesn't help that the pit was pretty dark so nobody would notice you just hanging out in it. It was always fun finding random stuff to hide behind and driving people crazy.
I really remember playing this game when it came out years ago. Even though the gameplay is okay but having Agent Moulder and Marilyn Manson are in this game. That alone got me intrigued into playing this game.
One of my friends showed me this game, they used to play it back in the day as kid and really enjoyed it but struggled to remember it, I was able to track it down and download it and we both had some fun playing it, and I honestly think it’s surprisingly good considering I wasn’t expecting much, every so often I get this urge to go back and replay it, something I don’t get from a lot of games. I really feel like Midway had some magic back in the day and it’s a real shame they went down the way they did, in today’s world we could all benefit from some of their classic arcade action, and I’d love to see more games try to use the concept of Area 51, several games have had awesome levels involving it and it’s one of my favourite tropes for a level.
I remember scowering this game before I even had internet looking for every secret and Reading the intel, it’s really well done and worth bringing up when talking about this game
I remember playing a demo of this on the OG Xbox when I was a kid and thinking it seemed pretty cool, then just kind of forgot it existed. It's one of those "oh yeah" games for me, I keep forgetting about it and then whenever I see the cover art or hear it mentioned I'm reminded of playing that demo. Was kind of to find out what it was all about from watching this video, seems like one of those solid FPS games from that time that got overshadowed by the success of Halo. Black is another one that comes to mind.
I literally randomly remembered how much joy this game brought me when I was a teen. Area 51, Deus Ex, Diablo and Vandal Hearts were my introduction into video games. I remembered a lot of flailing, a lot of late nights turning the volume low on the TV so my mom wouldn't hear me playing, and -with Area 51- a lot of me just calling Ethan David (cuz a I loved me some Xfiles). I searched up the game and saw this vid and realized, I have no idea how other people see this game, no one I know played it. I'll always love it and I'm glad to now get a little more perspective around it 😊
I've played this game several times but I've never actually finished it, I still remember the first time I played this game, I was with a friend, I scaned something called "Super infectious body" and I got freaked out for some reason, good times.
I don't remember this game being scary when I played it back in the day, but I've heard a ton of people say they were too scared to play it. I can see, especially in those intro levels, it's crazy how different people remember the game though
YO! I was just thinking that he should do a video on this game after he played Gun because this game and Gun were my jam as a kid on the PS2. Let’s goooooooo
Crispy was a core memory from my early days of gaming thanks to this gem. Going back and playing it over a decade later, I'm amazed how well the gunplay and overall feel has held up. Being able to see through the scope while not aiming down it was MIND BLOWING in 2005.
This could be a stretch but I feel like the syringes and the body at 11:28 are an Easter egg to the 2nd suffering game with the dude on drugs and the shotgun
When I was younger my dad refused to get internet, so when he wanted to play a game with us he booted up the ps2 so I grew up with most of these games and it’s really cool to see someone talk about them
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I remember being intrigued to rent this at blockbuster as a kid because of the cover art. But being how trippy the cover was at the time I never gave it a day
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I remember getting my friends tv and pushing it on my skateboard across town with him so we could play this at my house back in elementary school. RIP Jobel, you're missed brother
I remember as a kid I bot the game because of its bad ass case and thot thare would be cool gray aliens and stuff sadly thare was only 1 part but when I finally sow them behind the glass it blue me away with its ery niss I soo loved it.
The grays defiantly weren't a big part of gameplay, even though they were the focus of the plot. I wish you had more chances to interact with them, but seeing them so sparingly also made the mystery of it all feel more powerful.
I played tf outta this game when I was young. Over and over and over, I loved this game so much. Being able to turn into a mutant and back, the setup intro, the suits….. I loved this game
I didn't knew that you could sniff out bodies to replenish your mutant energy bar, it reminds me of that easter egg in wolfenstein 3d where you can just drink blood of the ground if you're heavily injured.
The FOV!!! It's so bad, at the beginning of the Gameplay chapter I show footage of the PS2 version and you can see the FOV comparison, it's the worst I've ever seen tbh, no idea why they made it like that.
I know I'm late to the video, but I wanted to share a fun gameplay tip I noticed YEARS AGO. With each death of your team, you gain more health. The health bar doesn't move, but I distinctly remember seeing my health bar lose less of its pool each time I took damage, and I think it's a subtle mechanic to show Ethan's resolve to push forward.
This game was awesome when I was a kid. Played the hell out of it. I remember randomly scanning things in the first level and laughing at the soldiers wearing adult diapers. The final levels were tough asf for me with the aliens with the force fields around them
I recently played through Area 51 thanks to the Project Dreamland free version. I liked it, shame it didn't get a true sequel as Blacksite Area 51 2007 was yet another reboot. Wish it got remastered or at least made backwards compatible on Xbox One X and Xbox Series X like FEAR recently.
Your ad fit manscapped got me. The ball trimming technology you find in the game...like "I played this and don't remember that!" Way to grab my attention
A solid 7/10 (remembering its overall ratings from way back then) rendered unplayable for me due to the abysmal screenshake. I hate it when they do this instead of improving the weapons' oomph by more delicate means. Great Max Payne joke though, appreciated.
Something I found odd was how in the beginning when your team is going down with the elevator the infected look more like the usual live infected zombies, but when you get out of the elevator the infected look more like aliens, and we see that scientist who mutates instantly.
Mortal Kombat deception gave me access to this .. it was only a demo lmao but was so crazy because I always wondered how they fit 2 games into one lmao
This game is one of those games I remember weirdly well despite it being like 17 or so years since I played it. But the other PS2/Gamecube game I remember really well is Medal of Honor Rising Sun. I don't know what it is. But I spent hours on that game. The first mission of trying to escape the Battleship in Pearl harbor has stuck with me. Even when I recently went back to play it I still had fun. Though mostly due to nostalgia.
This game helped me appreciate voice acting in video games. After playing this game as a child I realized that David Duchovny was a star. Ever since I kept tabs on voice actors like David hayter, Keith David, Phil Lamarr, and many more. Pretty cool to see this game get some love
I grew up with this game I absolutely loved it, played it again a year ago and it holds up pretty well in my eyes, really captured the feel of 2000's games, especially the trope of having one way of playing the game and then like halfway through it completely tosses up the mechanics with new things, i.e. a new combat form, several games did that in that time period
i was obsessed with this game as a kid, I remember getting it for like 5 bucks cuz ps2 was long dead and I ended up loving it a lot more than I thought I would. It was also one of the first ''horror'' game I played along w resident evil 4 and 5 later, this game made me like horror games in general even tho it was rly action based
I personally LOVED this game as kid, and wished there was more like it, its atmosphere and tone were perfectly dark and mysterious. i love this game so much i wrote a essay in my english class in middle school about it, i altered the names and events slightly and rewrote the story of this game as an essay and it got a decent grade haha. seriously though this game was SUPER creepy. i used to be terrified of playing this game. i think area 51 had a longer lasting effect on me than any other game besides the old resident evil games when i was a kid. something about how real the idea of an alien viral outbreak happening in area 51, and how terrifying it would be to be the cleanup crew responsible. i was horrified when i saw the cutscene of the doctor turning, when he splits open and stretches out. that scene gave me nightmares lmao. i even remember being terrified on crispy when he turned on you and you fight him in the dark room with shadows cast by the large industrial fan. it had subtle horror to that built on you, like the creeping realization that there is more intelligent life form within the base than humans, and the horror of seeing the staff burning HUGE piles of infected corpses as that was their only option was just awful. then to see those burned bodies come back as mutants anyway. stuff of literal nightmares.
Shoutout to any of the old Area 51 Online family. If any of you ever see this - I hope you are well.
~MeTaL StOrM~
I hope you find find old friends here, I'll pin your comment for visibility
@@MrHammers Thanks man, that is really kind of you. The online community of this game was so passionate about it. There was about 100 of us that kept the servers populated for a long time. Most of us knew each other by name, and some of us are still friends to this day.
We would spend hours trying to glitch our way out of the maps - or host 1v1 / 2v2 tournaments. One of our members even built an entire website that mirrored Gamebattles to help us keep track of who was winning the tournaments we organized.
Dang, that's awesome! Sounds like a nice community, hard to find stuff like that in gaming these days
I'm convinced that, back in the day, we only started playing "zombies" on halo 2 because we were trying to replicate the absolute BANGER of an experience this game's MP gave us, in the before times of no matchmaking and such. o7
This game is such an under rated gem dude. I wish midway wouldn't have gone bankruptcy I wish they made a remastered
All too often we don’t appreciate the gifts we have until they’re gone 😔 #RIPMidwayGames
This game could have used a remaster with upscaled resolution since you need a lot of patches to play it properly on PC, the FOV of the PC version is awful.
@@Disconnect350 it is I just passed it a few days ago and I had to download patches and directx patches too since I have an RTX2070 super
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Marilyn Manson voice acting an alien named Edgar has to be among the most underappreciated voice cast decisions in gaming. His voice really stood out to me, when I was younger & makes alot of sense
I gotta admit I wasn't a fan of it at first, he sounded super uninterested in the work. But as I rewatched all the cutscenes after playing, the voice fits Edgar perfectly. He's an alien thats been held captive and tortured for 60+ years, I'd sound hopeless as well. He outshined David Duchovny for sure
@@MrHammers I understand that transitioning from live-acting to voice-acting isn't something that all actors can do, but my God Duchonvy sounded so bored in this game.
Manson should do more voice acting, he has an unique voice.
@@MrHammers And to have an controversial edgy goth Overlord who speaks with a vocal fry makes a perfect alien voice
@@HunterShark300 Vocal Fry voices always seem appealing to me. Marilyn Manson, Rihanna, & Corey Taylor are some vocal fry voices that have always stood out to me
when I was young I used to play the levels up to the part when you lose all your squad mates and would be all alone. I'd always turn the game off then because I was too scared to play with no teammates
Same
No spoiler alert bud ? You serious /:
same lol
@@blakelopez2598 lol
@@blakelopez2598 to be fair it happens fairy early in the game Lmao
This was a game that I will forever remember from my childhood. It always scared me so much every time I booted the game that I would just stop playing the game and play something else like (Ratchet & Clank Going Commando or MGS2/3). But, I still managed to finish it back in the day when I mustered up the courage. Great video my guy! Thank you so much for making this!
Same story here 😅😂
It was the same for me, I would play in a dark room always and I'd get scared after getting killed in a hard level but kept on pushing through, it was a great game.
R&C: Going Commando is one of my all-time favorites. 👌
This is one of those "fun" games. It won't blow your mind, you won't sink hundreds of hours into it, it will simply entertain you. And that's enough.
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Yeah, when I played this as a kid, I found it pretty fun, but also kinda hard to continue from about that point where you get infected and have to face the alien soldiers, which bummed me out since it was basically dealing with hitscanners just like in any other shooter of that time. The beginning just stuck out to me too much and it was way too good lol, the mystery behind this base and some unknown virus which turns humans into some really creepy creatures which aren't flesh eating zombies (well, almost) was something new to me, the atmosphere was interesting, and it was the first game where the horror was so much to handle for me, that when the scientist broke the window and went through that disgusting mutation process, I actually stopped playing and asked my older brother if he could continue this part for me xD. He made fun of me for that, but after about a minute he went kinda silent, and, while he tried his best to not show it, I could tell he was starting to get creeped out himself lmao (but to his credit, he actually had the balls to keep playing unlike me). Despite never finishing it, I didn't regret the purchase.
@@velocilevonit was definitely frontloaded and lost momentum around the mid way point. I haven't played it since I was a kid, and I still remember parts of it, so that says something
If you played it online, you had an absolute blast and wasted a SHIT TON of hours there.
@@adammuncy8475I can’t tell you how many hours I spent doing infected on bloodbath, tdm in 2 to tango… good times
Anybody else remember unlocking this game demo in Mortal Kombat: Deception??? One of my favorite little easter eggs in gaming, it wasn't until I got older I realized this game wasn't a fever dream 😂
Bruh!!!! I was trying to remember how I had memories of playing a demo of this game xD that makes so much sense...i spent so much time playing deception and unlocking things in that graveyard thing 🤣
i might be wrong but i dont think you had to unlock it at all it was just there in the menus by default
YES!!! This is when I first played it
Yes! I played the hell out of that demo 😂
@@born2biscuit true. When I was younger I didn't get to unlock anything in that game since I didn't know how to do a profile to actually obtain stuff there, yet the demo of this game was there from the beginning. No need to unlock anything of the sort, just already there if you searched the menu enough.
I think Isaac Clarke is a little bit more of the every man since he was essentially the future's version of a Geek squad tech. This guy is on an emergency response team trusted enough to enter one of the most closed off military instillations in the whole world. Even if he's on the lower spectrum it's not as everyman. Isaac definitely has more personal reason for taking the mission. Anyways there is something you said that I really like. It's when you talk about the horror experienced when destruction and chaos meet the mundane (the Ishimura and the Sprawl etc.) I really like that. it makes a lot of sense
That's fair, Isaac isn't a soldier and definitely not combat trained. Cole has that edge over him, but it's still close enough to compare them and thier games. Neither of them are doom guy or master chief or anything but they still save the world haha.
And yeah, thats what makes horror work to me personally. Silent hill is another great example of this. It creates a great atmosphere
@@MrHammers oh cool! I always really like hearing back from the creator themselves. Sometimes it's weird but UA-camrs don't always seem like real people, like you're characters. It's not easy to explain but hearing from ya in the comments bring you into realty so thank you and great content, man! Your Dead Space content is my favorite. If they revamp that shit you need to get on that. Bring the hammer 🔨 down on that nail
Haha I get what you mean, I feel that way about other UA-camrs myself haha thanks my dude, glad you like the stuff 👊
The only thing I remember about this game is two cutscenes, the one where the scientist smashes the window and turns into a mutant, and the other one where a mutant rips one of your team mate's head off
All i remember is Marilyn Manson did the voice for the alien and that you could shoot these leech things out of your hand. At least i think this is from the same game.
Loved everything midway released back on ps2, I still remember being too afraid to walk out of my cell at the beginning of the suffering. I miss the quality control of the ps2 era
Midway was legit in the 6th gen
Love the fact they used David Duchovny for voicing the protagonist considering his close involvement with UFO's etc in The X Files. Always thought it was a good choice!
It's weird but David Duchovny brings so much passion to Mulder while holding that tone.
Area 51 is one of those games I honestly have to wonder how it hasn't gotten a remake or been announced yet.
The sequel killed it
Probably because it came to close to the truth with a virus ( COVID ) and forced vaccinations, released on the public, also I hate using the word Illuminati because it's cleche but there are definitely people behind the world stage that pull the strings of humanity.
@Bastián Ríos Madrid it had basically nothing to do with the original, but yeah, bad game too. Midway going bankrupt sealed area 51s fate though
@Bastián Ríos Madrid kinda yes.
It follows what happened with that thingamabob the truck was taking at the end of the game.
And that's about the only connection both games have..
I spent 21 years in the Air Force and I remember them sponsoring this lol. Side note, I had a buddy that worked over at Area 51 and I spent some time just on the other side of the mountain for a short spell. The only thing that I remember about this game is the ominous title screen and music.
Other side of the mountain, you mean S4?
@adammuncy8475 Im sure thats what he means possibly
Things I remember; always the cutscenes- the hidden dialogue, “his skin melted off” “they just lost one team and now they’re sending another” “fascinating”- the last one is in the medical tent but is difficult to get playing- maybe only after the barrel boss?
Oh and scanning stuff- scanning enemies and bosses while alive.
The first time you meet the alien parasite in a busted jar- the sounds they make…
The death light bridge that kills you if you touch it- but you can inch along the beams to avoid about a dozen or two enemies.
The UFO in the level Blue Book- and firing it’s canon
The Theta- and that you can kill it in the fashion it was originally to have died- scan the tank at the first level and read how the acid is suppose to kill the things once exposed to air.
That headshots with the pistol are 100% instant death as opposed to other guns besides the sniper.
When entering the aliens weapons you can see all those tanks- and zoom in and you see Thetas.
A good moral question in the lab
Torture the infected to death or leave them there? Which is better?
Also the possibility of one of them being a scientist that’s mentioned a scan in the room- a datalog on suicide.
I remember the extras, Romeras and so on are a bit funny and the calm logs of Gray, and how giddy White is.
Also “touch the rail”
Pain noises
“How did it feel?”
“It’s hot.”
“That’s wrong, it should be cold, touch it again.”
Pain noises
“Correction, it was cold.”
XD
Nice comedy- until you realize you talk to your boss for the last time later in the mission
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Also you can cap the aliens before the portal
Dude a remake of this game would KILLLLL. The storyline is so good. Atmosphere so good. Voice acting so good. Someone has to make that happen. Amazing game. So underrated.
I absolutely adore that Midway would give us crazy super powers- like in The Suffering 1/2, Psi-Ops, and of course Area 51
When I was a kid it always bothered me that the main character was the only one on the team w/ no gloves on lol. This dude has a whole hazmat suit on w/ bare ass hands 😆
What's funny about this is that in the demo the player character had gloves in the early missions initially.
@@SentinelEnforcer the demo was much more dynamic than the final version, the voice acting improved a lot in the final version though.
That’s so funny cause I was thinking the same thing
And yet Cole has gloves in every cutscene he's featured in prior to his mutation. So I'm gonna assume that originally he was supposed to be bare handed AFTER his transformation, but the devteam somehow messed up with his viewmodels and decided to leave them the way they are as it was too late to fix anything before the release.
@@johnnybeck4549 That's exactly what I was thinking.
For PS2 this game was a technical masterclass. Solid frame-rates, advanced lighting, lots happening on screen at once
One of the best looking FPS on PS2 😎
And Xbox Original
I really liked David Duchovny, his voice had a certain surreal dreariness to it that really added something to the game for me. Like someone who knew he was being sent to his death from the very beginning.
I love this era of Midway and in retrospect it really stings what happened to them.
They made some bangers in the 6th gen
@@MrHammersI loved the Suffering, I got it for my 360 as I've been on a collecting tangent... It was one of the first games that I bought when I started, I had Simpsons Hit and Run for years, also, I was enthralled by the PAL cover of the Suffering, kinda sad that Ties That Bind wasn't made compatible
My tinfoil hat is telling me that this game is secretly a documentary with its details leaked by an informant to the devs, but that's just silly.
Or is that just want they want us to believe?
And the Air Force sponsoring it is them acknowledging it and acting like it's no big deal lol
hahah hide is plain sight
The truth is out there Mulder, but so are lies.
The only thing I remember from this game was the death of the first squadmate where he gets his head ripped off. That moment stuck with me all these years later
Yeah that's a good one haha
I remember when you were forced to kill Crispy because he succumbed to the alien virus after the Theta infected him with it.
Never ended up playing this but I can vividly remember reading about it in IGN or Gamepro. Consensus was Midway was crazy for trying to attach a plot and characters to an arcade game.
Kinda funny that sort of thing was outlandish back in the day
Yet it worked out. Fun game!
"Midway was crazy for trying to attach story and characters to an arcade game" like with Mortal Kombat lol? I mean I guess they still went out of business but at least they got 33 mil in exchange
Damn we need a remaster. This game is definitely an underrated gem . 😭👌🏽
They would fuck it up nowadays
I’m getting a steam deck just to play this gem I never got to beat it when I was younger I never could get passed the part when your team head gets ripped off it’s kinda funny how everyone only remembers that part hahaha
This was my childhood game, me and my dad used to replay this over and over. Such a hidden little gem
I remember the Therta. " Monster " you had to kill two times which was a pain in the ass. And the black ops alien soldiers which were cool.
The game was ahead of its time,,loved the game,,and still play it from time to time
13:08
I remember something fun you could do with the scanner is scan your teammates and they'd give funny responses like "Great! Now I can't have kids!" or if you scan yourself after you get infected by looking all the way down Cole will say "I'm not... Human anymore."
I think it's funny when you scan yourself and Cole says "I'm hot"
I remember first playing this game on a PS2 demo disk, that also had demos for Killzone 1 and BLACK.
The small spider-like aliens that jumped at you would always scare the crap out of me lol
Glad I’m not the only one that remembers that demo disc. I played through this just to watch the intro cutscene!
This comment made me miss the old days of Blockbuster and GameStop 😭 99-2013 truly was the golden age of gaming.
Me too.. but I played the demo through mortal Kombat deception
Me too my boy. I begged my mom to buy me the game because of that demo.
I remember renting this game not knowing what to expect
(We went to the video store like every other weekend and I'd always get a game)
I kinda just grabbed it cuz I didn't see anything else I wanted to try.
Ended up falling in love and re renting until I beat it
Then we beat it coop too
Absolutely loved this game when it came out. Nice sci-fi story to keep 13 year old me invested, and the online multiplayer was phenomenal back in the day.
I'm jealous you got to play online, I never had the adapter for my PS2 but I used to play split screen with a friend and had a blast with that. Getting to play as a mutant competitively was slick kinda ahead of its time
I'm in the same boat as you, I never played online till like 2009 on the 360
The zombie mode was legit awesome.
@MrHammers I don't know if it's still up but Project Dreamland is a PC upscaled version of the game worked on by some fans allowing the freeware version to be played without GameSpy. Project Dreamland had multiplayer servers but given that that was in 2017 and its tough to find the download file nowadays I have no idea if anyone's playing matches.
12:30 if I remember correctly meleeing enemies while in mutated form gave you more mutation ammo. So basically you can throw your parasites to get hp, melee a few enemies to get more parasites doing a never ending cycle.
Then later on, you picked up that special Alien BBG weapon, which fired three-round bursts of sticky explosive energy balls and infinitely recharged its ammo.
This is my Number One Favourite game of ALL TIME! love the fact your squad gets killed of one by one! ethan is awesome voice acting to me!
I love watching the secret videos you get after finding all the things you have to scan in the game. One of my favorite games growing up for sure ❤❤.
Same! The documents were so cool
I KNEW that was David Duchovny!!! I saw him earlier in this video and thought maybe it was just a look alike but no that’s him! Makes sense he’d be in this game! Loool!
I really loved this game when it came out. We were all obsessed with aliens and secret military bases back then so it was perfect for the time period.
I remember having fun playing the infection mode of multiplayer since I was one of those bastards that could always find rediculous hiding spots.
One map has a pit and there are tiny ledges you could drop onto. It also doesn't help that the pit was pretty dark so nobody would notice you just hanging out in it. It was always fun finding random stuff to hide behind and driving people crazy.
I really remember playing this game when it came out years ago. Even though the gameplay is okay but having Agent Moulder and Marilyn Manson are in this game. That alone got me intrigued into playing this game.
What a blast from the past, this was actually a really solid shooter for it's time.
Man we wood of be happy to see this game in the movies man 😕
The scope setup was ahead of its time
One of my friends showed me this game, they used to play it back in the day as kid and really enjoyed it but struggled to remember it, I was able to track it down and download it and we both had some fun playing it, and I honestly think it’s surprisingly good considering I wasn’t expecting much, every so often I get this urge to go back and replay it, something I don’t get from a lot of games. I really feel like Midway had some magic back in the day and it’s a real shame they went down the way they did, in today’s world we could all benefit from some of their classic arcade action, and I’d love to see more games try to use the concept of Area 51, several games have had awesome levels involving it and it’s one of my favourite tropes for a level.
Still owned the damn game on both PS2 and PC (Dreamland). IT's a pure nostalgic trip.
This game was crazy AF I love the little Easter eggs they put in there
I remember scowering this game before I even had internet looking for every secret and Reading the intel, it’s really well done and worth bringing up when talking about this game
I've never played this game, yet that cover is so nostalgic, because i always saw a couple of it. at a 2nd hand shop
I remember playing a demo of this on the OG Xbox when I was a kid and thinking it seemed pretty cool, then just kind of forgot it existed. It's one of those "oh yeah" games for me, I keep forgetting about it and then whenever I see the cover art or hear it mentioned I'm reminded of playing that demo. Was kind of to find out what it was all about from watching this video, seems like one of those solid FPS games from that time that got overshadowed by the success of Halo. Black is another one that comes to mind.
Dude, I would love to see you play Psi-Ops that was one of my favorites from Midway back in the day along with The Suffering
It's the next midway game I need to tackle!
Hell yeah dude, I can't wait
Fucken loved that game
Man, I miss that game. The sequel bait was HARD on that ending though.
@@Sorain1 Man I know, it sucks we never got a sequel
I literally randomly remembered how much joy this game brought me when I was a teen. Area 51, Deus Ex, Diablo and Vandal Hearts were my introduction into video games. I remembered a lot of flailing, a lot of late nights turning the volume low on the TV so my mom wouldn't hear me playing, and -with Area 51- a lot of me just calling Ethan David (cuz a I loved me some Xfiles).
I searched up the game and saw this vid and realized, I have no idea how other people see this game, no one I know played it.
I'll always love it and I'm glad to now get a little more perspective around it 😊
Man I love this game me and my cousin used to play that all the time when we were kids makes me feel old
I played the piss out of this game back in the day. Nice throwback.
I've played this game several times but I've never actually finished it, I still remember the first time I played this game, I was with a friend, I scaned something called "Super infectious body" and I got freaked out for some reason, good times.
I don't remember this game being scary when I played it back in the day, but I've heard a ton of people say they were too scared to play it. I can see, especially in those intro levels, it's crazy how different people remember the game though
Beat this game 3 times throughout the years. Something about I love!
Wait really? I had no idea it’s tied to the arcade game Area 51, in my younger years I would spend countless hours and quarters on that game
I remember me and this dude in HS who were passing buddies used to hang out JUST to play this lol
I loved this game, such a good multiplayer for PS2
oh yeah. i cant remember what game had a demo of area 51 on it, but i remember playing it on the xbox and being super scared.
YO! I was just thinking that he should do a video on this game after he played Gun because this game and Gun were my jam as a kid on the PS2. Let’s goooooooo
Mine too bro nostalgia
He should do a video on Jak & Daxter. Or another good obscure PS2 game like MK Shaolin Monks or Simpsons Hit & Run
I loved this game. The guns made for some very fun multiplayer rounds with my friends. I'd definitely put it in the top 10 shooters of the year.
Great video as usual!!! I miss the time when conspiracy theories were restricted to Aliens, mind control and Illuminati...
Crispy was a core memory from my early days of gaming thanks to this gem. Going back and playing it over a decade later, I'm amazed how well the gunplay and overall feel has held up. Being able to see through the scope while not aiming down it was MIND BLOWING in 2005.
Man, I loved this game so much when I was a kid. Thanks for reminding me of it, I'm gonna definitely play this again.
Have fun!
@@MrHammers Thanks, will do :)
This could be a stretch but I feel like the syringes and the body at 11:28 are an Easter egg to the 2nd suffering game with the dude on drugs and the shotgun
When I was younger my dad refused to get internet, so when he wanted to play a game with us he booted up the ps2 so I grew up with most of these games and it’s really cool to see someone talk about them
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9:53 God this terrified me so much as a kid. As an adult it's laughable now.
I remember being intrigued to rent this at blockbuster as a kid because of the cover art. But being how trippy the cover was at the time I never gave it a day
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I have been thinking
Lol the alien Balls trimming technology
I remember getting my friends tv and pushing it on my skateboard across town with him so we could play this at my house back in elementary school.
RIP Jobel, you're missed brother
David D'anchovie made me laugh
I can't even describe how much I love this game. I wish it would be remastered
I remember as a kid I bot the game because of its bad ass case and thot thare would be cool gray aliens and stuff sadly thare was only 1 part but when I finally sow them behind the glass it blue me away with its ery niss I soo loved it.
The grays defiantly weren't a big part of gameplay, even though they were the focus of the plot. I wish you had more chances to interact with them, but seeing them so sparingly also made the mystery of it all feel more powerful.
@@MrHammers I 100% agree bro soo badass.
I played tf outta this game when I was young. Over and over and over, I loved this game so much. Being able to turn into a mutant and back, the setup intro, the suits….. I loved this game
Never played this game, I love these type of games.
I didn't knew that you could sniff out bodies to replenish your mutant energy bar, it reminds me of that easter egg in wolfenstein 3d where you can just drink blood of the ground if you're heavily injured.
I actually tried to play this the other day on PS2 and boy oh boy, I got motion sickness.
These controls are wonky.
The FOV!!! It's so bad, at the beginning of the Gameplay chapter I show footage of the PS2 version and you can see the FOV comparison, it's the worst I've ever seen tbh, no idea why they made it like that.
And even worse the PC port controls are painful
This game and Resistance are some of the most underrated games of all time.
Great video man! love this game. Next Midway game you should do is Psi-Ops: The Mind Gate Conspiracy :)
I watched my friend play that game pretty interesting
I played Area 51 on Xbox
That'll be one of the next games for sure 😊
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The combat felt so good, but I hated the dual-wielding.
Couldn't agree more, that was an entirely unnecessary feature, and you didn't get the option to put the other gun down once it picked up
yea it was pretty derpy :D
It was great in online infected mode lol if you were one of the last humans camping in that one break room lol
I know I'm late to the video, but I wanted to share a fun gameplay tip I noticed YEARS AGO. With each death of your team, you gain more health. The health bar doesn't move, but I distinctly remember seeing my health bar lose less of its pool each time I took damage, and I think it's a subtle mechanic to show Ethan's resolve to push forward.
Consistently great content!
Thanks my man
This game was awesome when I was a kid. Played the hell out of it. I remember randomly scanning things in the first level and laughing at the soldiers wearing adult diapers. The final levels were tough asf for me with the aliens with the force fields around them
I recently played through Area 51 thanks to the Project Dreamland free version. I liked it, shame it didn't get a true sequel as Blacksite Area 51 2007 was yet another reboot.
Wish it got remastered or at least made backwards compatible on Xbox One X and Xbox Series X like FEAR recently.
Your ad fit manscapped got me. The ball trimming technology you find in the game...like "I played this and don't remember that!" Way to grab my attention
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A solid 7/10 (remembering its overall ratings from way back then) rendered unplayable for me due to the abysmal screenshake. I hate it when they do this instead of improving the weapons' oomph by more delicate means. Great Max Payne joke though, appreciated.
The camera shake was bothersome, the mods lessen it but it's most def still there. Especially when aiming down sights.
Glad you liked it 😁
This was actually the first fps i had ever seen and it blew my mind i remember playing the demo over and over bc of that.
Same here i would rent this game a lot when blockbuster was a thing
Something I found odd was how in the beginning when your team is going down with the elevator the infected look more like the usual live infected zombies, but when you get out of the elevator the infected look more like aliens, and we see that scientist who mutates instantly.
Such a underated gem midway had some solid survival horror games I'm this it's sequel and the suffering series. These games should be bought back
Man the storytelling was stellar. So many working parts coming together to tell a grounded, complex narrative.
Mortal Kombat deception gave me access to this .. it was only a demo lmao but was so crazy because I always wondered how they fit 2 games into one lmao
This game was awesome and a good example of how you do a reboot correctly.
This game is one of those games I remember weirdly well despite it being like 17 or so years since I played it. But the other PS2/Gamecube game I remember really well is Medal of Honor Rising Sun. I don't know what it is. But I spent hours on that game. The first mission of trying to escape the Battleship in Pearl harbor has stuck with me. Even when I recently went back to play it I still had fun. Though mostly due to nostalgia.
Medal of honor was a great military shooter. Lots of fun
@@MrHammers The two first Medal of Honor on PS1 were the best
Another banger vid by MrHammers
For a PS2 game, it doesn't look bad, graphically.
A Remake would do it justice
This game helped me appreciate voice acting in video games. After playing this game as a child I realized that David Duchovny was a star. Ever since I kept tabs on voice actors like David hayter, Keith David, Phil Lamarr, and many more. Pretty cool to see this game get some love
I grew up with this game I absolutely loved it, played it again a year ago and it holds up pretty well in my eyes, really captured the feel of 2000's games, especially the trope of having one way of playing the game and then like halfway through it completely tosses up the mechanics with new things, i.e. a new combat form, several games did that in that time period
i was obsessed with this game as a kid, I remember getting it for like 5 bucks cuz ps2 was long dead and I ended up loving it a lot more than I thought I would. It was also one of the first ''horror'' game I played along w resident evil 4 and 5 later, this game made me like horror games in general even tho it was rly action based
I personally LOVED this game as kid, and wished there was more like it, its atmosphere and tone were perfectly dark and mysterious. i love this game so much i wrote a essay in my english class in middle school about it, i altered the names and events slightly and rewrote the story of this game as an essay and it got a decent grade haha.
seriously though this game was SUPER creepy. i used to be terrified of playing this game. i think area 51 had a longer lasting effect on me than any other game besides the old resident evil games when i was a kid. something about how real the idea of an alien viral outbreak happening in area 51, and how terrifying it would be to be the cleanup crew responsible. i was horrified when i saw the cutscene of the doctor turning, when he splits open and stretches out. that scene gave me nightmares lmao.
i even remember being terrified on crispy when he turned on you and you fight him in the dark room with shadows cast by the large industrial fan.
it had subtle horror to that built on you, like the creeping realization that there is more intelligent life form within the base than humans, and the horror of seeing the staff burning HUGE piles of infected corpses as that was their only option was just awful. then to see those burned bodies come back as mutants anyway. stuff of literal nightmares.