But you won't have to resort to ray guns. The weapons you'll start out with include state-of-the-art military technology and will also include more futuristic weapons. You can also execute a melee attack, jump, toss grenades, and crouch. There was only one weapon in the demo, a fully automatic assault rifle with a grenade-launcher attachment. That happens at the end of the brief demo level.

For example, you'll be able to see a huge flying object crash into a building and then sprout into a giant wormlike creature. Major events will get a finer point put on them with the use of slow motion. The game will tell its story without the use of cinematic cutscenes and convey the plot as you play, with in-engine, in-game dialogue. It sounds like an interesting mechanic that could help set BlackSite apart from the other squad-based games out there. But if you let your squadmates go down and do a bad job, the squad starts to panic and buttons up behind cover, taking fewer shots and being less useful. If you're doing well, keeping your squad alive, getting headshots, and so on, morale will stay up, and your guys will do more damage and become better, more aggressive soldiers. But your squad isn't invincible, and how they fight against the enemy depends on their morale. For example, if it's a door, they'll bust or blow it open if it's a vehicle, they'll jump in it. You point at something and hit the L trigger, and the squad interacts with it.

The development team is working to make the squad control as simple as firing a gun. The level is set up as a tutorial of sorts, taking you through some basic sequences to familiarize you with the game's squad control. You take control of the point man in what eventually becomes a four-man squad. The demo shown at Midway's recent press event was a very short taste of a level based on Rachael, Nevada, the town closest to the Area 51 facility.

And it sounds like it's taking a much more serious approach to the subject matter that plays off of some of man's worst fears while also offering a fast-paced adventure with lots of big, loud weapons. Midway's Austin studio is currently working on a new first-person shooter that, at least partially, takes place in and around Area 51. Is it just a test site for prototype aircraft? Or is it where the government hides all the crazy alien technology that it harvested from the Roswell UFO crash? You know, we wouldn't have fiber optics, floor-cleaning robots, or the iPhone without reverse engineering all that alien technology. Everyone has a pet theory about what goes on out at Groom Lake, otherwise known as Area 51, the 'secret' military facility located about 90 miles north of Las Vegas.

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