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   Game Informer is at it again. The hype-inducing magazine's latest issue exposes Midway's plans for a sequel to their not-so-bad-at-all first-person shooter Area 51. The next episode - titled BlackSite: Area 51 - will apparently air during the summer of 2007, on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This isn't the first time we hear about the Area 51 sequel, though. Late last year, IGN already had a "viral video teaser" for it, which you can also see on YouTube.

   What this new article tells us is that BlackSite will use Epic's Unreal Engine 3 in order to please us visually, and that it's being developed by the same Austin studio that made the first Area 51. FiringSquad also has some bits and pieces about the new game's orientation and gameplay:
"It will also be more serious in tone than the somewhat campy original game with references to Iraq, global warming and other political issues mixed in with the alien conspiracy storyline. Look for new alien weapons to be mixed in with conventional FPS firearms along with an advanced squad based tactical system as well."    Additionally, GGMania has a couple of screenshots scanned from the Game Informer article. It doesn't look bad, but just from these images alone I can't say I'm psyched either.

   As a final note, there's one mistake in particular Midway did in the first part, which we hope won't happen again: and that was giving David Duchovny a part in voice acting. Now, Dave, we love you, we love the X-Files, but please, stay away from games! One could say that the overall quality of Area 51 was dragged down by Duchovny's voice acting, and he wasn't too brilliant in Ubi's cel-shaded XIII either.