The premise of the game is basically this: you're David Duchovny and despite your kinda-bored tone, you're sent to Area 51 with your buddies to do some alien virus cleanup. When I'm not listening to David Duchovny in XIII, I'm listening to him in Area 51. I mention all of this mundanity as a set-up, because the game itself was sort of mind-blowing at the time. Instead of visiting my local indie games shop, I opted to buy it from the DVD/game rental store next to the Morrison's with the help of my aunt. Because I can assure you, nobody is really going to obtain this much artistic value from something like Red Dead 2 in ten years' time.įrom what I can remember, I treated myself to a fresh new copy of Area 51 as it was released near my birthday. That could be the name for this whole series, a tribute to a world of games that companies such as Midway moulded by pushing the medium forward in so many odd ways.
