Playing the final game now...I was a huge fan of Area 51 on the PS2, I felt it was the best fps on that consoleint erms of engine, visuals, action ...really liked it. Plus I'm a huge X-Files fan so, that worked too.
I was really anticipating Blacksite and Midway's next-gen games in general, but the continous delays with both Blacksite and Stranglehold have really fucked it up for Midway. Blacksite would have been good before COD4, but now it feels merely okay.
The action in the first hour seems solid. The iraq opening sets things up and there's some vehicle gameplay after that, you can get out of the vehicle when you want and shoot the alien hybrid enemies that pop up.
I'll play through this and enjoy it, but it looks like a first-gen game compared to COD4 and it just feels generic so far...still, the atmospere despite the naff visuals, is great so far.