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2007PC, PlayStation, Xbox

A linear military shooter where you lead a special forces squad against aliens and mutated creatures in a desert town and Area 51. Its squad morale system and conspiracy plot define the experience.

  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Action-packed real-time combat
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

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In short: Games like BlackSite: Area 51

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes BlackSite: Area 51 special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Area 51

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2005PEGI 18PC, PlayStation, Xbox

Brings what grabs you about BlackSite: Area 51: good gunplay, a sci-fi setting and a realistic look.

A linear first-person shooter where you play HAZMAT soldier Ethan Cole investigating a viral outbreak inside the secret Area 51 facility. Mutants, aliens and a conspiracy create a dark sci-fi horror mood.

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Quake 4

Dark, serious atmosphere

A linear sci-fi shooter on the Doom 3 engine where marine Matthew Kane takes the fight to the Strogg homeworld, featuring the infamous stroggification twist. Squad missions, vehicle sections and fast arena multiplayer round it out.

Singularity

Dark, serious atmosphere

A sci-fi shooter set on an abandoned Soviet island, where a time-manipulation device lets you age enemies to dust, restore decayed objects and solve environmental puzzles. Its BioShock-style horror atmosphere frames a Cold War time-paradox story.

Half-Life: Source

Shooting and gunplay

The Source engine version of the shooter classic: as scientist Gordon Freeman you fight through aliens and soldiers after an experiment goes wrong at Black Mesa. Updated lighting, water and physics refresh the look, but it remains the tightly scripted, linear original.

Half-Life

Sci-fi setting

The landmark shooter sends physicist Gordon Freeman through the alien- and soldier-infested Black Mesa facility, telling its story seamlessly without cutscenes while mixing tense firefights with environmental and physics puzzles.

Unreal II: The Awakening

Sci-fi setting

A story-driven sci-fi first-person shooter where you play Marshal John Dalton, hopping between alien planets from your ship to stop a galactic conflict over ancient artifacts. Your crew and varied locations give the linear shooter its character.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen

Sci-fi setting

A third-person shooter set in the Star Trek universe where you play as Sisko, Kira and Worf against the Pah-wraiths. The three characters offer different play styles and their own perspectives on the plot around the Bajoran Orbs.

Star Trek: Elite Force II

Sci-fi setting

A story-driven Star Trek first-person shooter where you play Hazard Team chief Munro, taking on dangerous missions aboard the Enterprise-E against familiar and new enemies.

Dino Crisis 2

Shooting and gunplay

Dino Crisis 2 trades most of the first game's survival horror for fast third-person shooting, letting you blast through a dinosaur-infested jungle with dual weapons and spend points on new gear. A brisk, arcade-flavored dino romp.

F.E.A.R.

Dark, serious atmosphere

A first-person shooter that pairs explosive slow-motion firefights against remarkably smart enemy AI with unsettling psychological horror built around the eerie girl Alma. Its destructible gunfights are still held up as a genre benchmark.

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