In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, you likely know about the internet’s
plans to storm a famously locked off facility; no, we’re not talking about the ICE detention
centers, we’re talking area 51.
Yes.
That’s what the internet is demanding to find answers about, instead of, you know,
horribly inhumane modern day concentration camps.
Politics aside my friends, in mocking celebration of this absurd news story, we’re jumping
into hypothetical land and imagining what those 50 thousand something people hope to
discover locked away in area 51 with our list of the top 10 video gsme aliens we could encounter
at area 51.
In other words, bandwagon time!
Considering most aliens in video games are either pleasant allies, villainous threats
or creatures who end up attacking you just cause, we’ll be steering away from civilized
sentient extraterrestrial life forms on this list, and aiming for ones who seem like they’d
be captured and locked away in a secure facility that no regular ol civilian has ever seen.
10 Xenomorphs Alright, to be fair, Xenomorphs would be better
suited for a list called top 10 movie aliens we could encounter at area 51.
But bear with me here, people.
We can’t have a list on alien video games without having THE Aliens make an appearance.
If Xenomorphs or something like them were to exist and be held in area 51, there’s
a good chance that they probably would have found a way to murder a good chunk of the
staff before someone figured out a safe way to detain them.
The Alien franchise has produced almost 20 games worth over the years, starting with
1984’s Atari 2600 title where you could barely make out the alien figures as actual
xenomorphs.
It was basically a rip off of Pac Man.
But over the years, the xenomorphs have gotten better and better, (with the exception of
2013’s aliens colonial marines, we don’t talk about that one).
To imagine something like them in real life, well, maybe people wouldn’t want to storm
area 51 after all.
9 Barnacle (Half Life) If aliens are being kept inside of Area 51,
there definitely aren’t ones that are incredibly dangerous or capable sentient creatures with
agency and biological abilities that surpass our own (which, yes, kind of makes our last
number void but don’t hate on the alien franchise, people!)
That means that realistically, aliens the likes of the Barnacle from Half Life would
be the kind that could be somewhat easily detained and held there for observation and
study.
Barnacles are carnivorous extraterrestrials who live under overhangs, and have a long
tongue capable of hanging several feet from its mouth.
Whenever something accidentally runs into that tongue, they drag them upwards, like
an alien venus fly trap of sorts.
They’ll eat whatever collides with their tongue, and their mouth takes up the majority
of their body mass.
But they do learn from their mistakes, and usually don’t eat the same inedible object
twice, which signifies that they do have some level of intelligence.
8 Elvis (Perfect Dark) It wouldn’t be a list about Area 51 if we
didn’t include a stereotypical alien type that looks kinda like the alien in every single
conspiracy theorist’s youtube channel thumbnails.
This is Elvis, an alien character from the game The Perfect Dark, from a race called
the Maians.
He is the exception on our list – he comes from a civilized race, and even has a job,
which in this case is protecting the Maian ambassador who has come to Earth.
He’s also fascinated by our planet, and throughout the narrative of the game he tends
to be comic relief, although has proven to be very skilled when it comes to fighting
and his job as a Protector.
7 Space Invaders Okay, okay, hear us out on this one.
Sure, Space Invaders are these iconic pixelated little fellas trying to kill you in the video
game series named after them.
But, imagine this – Space Invaders, but realistic.
That’s some scary ass sh*t.
Space Invaders are usually seen as the OG video game aliens, first hitting the arcade
scene in 1978 as a shooter title.
Arcade games were the humble beginnings of aliens in video game titles, which mostly
consisted of an you versus them, with you representing all of humanity.
Regardless, the concept behind space invaders (a fleet of aliens coming to attack earth
with you defending it) could easily be adapted into any sort of alien invader narrative when
it comes to aliens potentially captured in area 51.
6 Banshee (Mass Effect 3) I feel like from here on our, this list will
slowly evolve into terrifying aliens we could imagine are locked up in Area 51.
Starting with the Banshee from Mass Effect 3! Banshese are synthetic-organic creatures
who are mutated asari created by Reaper technology.
They’re intelligent, and anyone they mate with will immediately die.
They are incredibly durable, and can spawn their own warp field during combat.
They also let out a petrifying wail that has no specific physiological effect, but is scary
as hell.
And, worse of all, when they die, they implode, all as a means to evade capture.
Personally, Banshees are yet another number on this list that I’d be more than satisfied
to know weren’t on Earth.
5 Akrid (Lost Planet series) A life form found on EDN III in the Lost Planet
games, Akrid are reptilian-esque insectoids that thrive in the extreme cold.
Their bodies produce thermal energy, keeping them from freezing in the extreme temperatures,
one that would normally kill of humans and other species.
Some sub species of the Akrid are capable of adapting and rapidly mutating in order
to accomadate to ever changing environmental conditions.
All in all, despite being dangerous, the Akrid are the kind of extraterrestrial that humans
would be very intrigued by, and might even contain in a secret facility to study and
learn from.
4 Headcrabs (Half Life) Head crabs are unpleasant little fellas.
From Half-Life, they’re one of the most recognizable aliens in the series, and are
parasitic, taking complete control over their hosts nervous system.
Being the size of a pumpkin, it’s easy to imagine an extraterrestrial the likes of a
headcrab hanging out in captivity in Area 51.
Their size doesn’t mean they are any less dangerous though.
Covered in smooth skin and walking on four short legs, they have the ability to jump
or leap up to 10 feet in any direction, and have an underbelly that’s covered almost
entirely by a jawless mouth, containing a hidden beak that is used for feed or latching
onto a victim’s skull.
Unlike many of the other aliens on this list, Headcrabs can be domesticated, as seen with
Lamarr in Half Life, the name of Isaac Kleiner’s pet headcrab.
Lamarr has had its beak removed, making it unable to break into a host’s skull, which
not only renders it harmless, but seemingly removes its parasitic instincts, placating
the creatures.
3 Metroids (Metroid) The Metroid species from the Metroid games
are a broad collection of extraterrestrials that were exploited as bioweapons.
From the planet SR388, a batch of them were stolen from a galactic federation research
vessel by space pirates, causing the species to spread across the universe, endangering
life thanks to the species need to consume ‘life energy’ from other beings in order
to stay alive.
Turns out they are genetically engineered by the Chozo, with the name Metroid roughly
translating into ultimate warrior in their language.
They would eventually go extinct in Super Metroid, with their appearances in following
games due to laboratories using the DNA of the last, and now deceased, Metroid.
To be quite frank, if Area 51 is as insidious as some would have us to believe, detaining
a species of aliens that could be used as a bioweapon would definitely fit the bill,
and could very well be lurking behind the facilities closed off walls.
2 Typhon (Prey) When we think of all of the weird life forms
that could be lurking in Area 51, we can’t help but imagine extraterrestrials with strange
and unique abilities.
That’s why the Typhon from Prey make this list; can you imagine the government studying
something like this species and trying to use it for mankind’s benefit?
Not a total long shot, in terms of intentions, that is.
The Typhon are hostile aliens that appear in the game Prey, and are formed from a shiny,
grey black substance that appears to have the characteristics of solids, liquids and
gases all at once.
They change their structure and solidity with ease, even using appendages they create as
weapons, and are highly durable.
Each sub species of Typhon have different abilities.
Some can mimic matter, others can phase, some can generate fire or electricity, and some
can even make use of mind control.
They don’t have mirror neurons, meaning they are incapable of empathizing with the
suffering of other creatures, and perhaps can’t even recognize other living beings
outside of their species.
To make matters worse, they can also spawn or replicate themselves, and are capable of
detecting when other life forms are nearby, causing them to attack.
Now imagine if something like that in real life existed, and was being held at Area 51.
No offence, but really wouldn’t want to attack the facility and let something like
that out on the loose.
How about we try to not get the entire human race killed off?
Yeah, I’m all for that.
1 Necromorphs (Dead space) By far one of the scariest entries on our
list, the Necromorphs from Dead Space are exactly the kind of extraterrestrial creature
that would need to be locked up in an air tight security facility the likes of Area
51.
Once again, I reiterate; maybe, like, let’s not try to bust into a facility that may actually
be protecting us from other dangerous life forms?
Anywho, let’s talk Necromorphs and why they are literal nightmare fuel.
Appearing in the Dead Space series, necromorphs are mutated and reanimated corpses, reshaped
thanks to an alien infection that causes an organism to become extremely aggressive and
violent, attacking any uninfected life form without mercy.
Their goal is to spread the infection, aiming to convert more bodies, with them eventually
combining into terrifying massive versions of necromorphs when an ecosystem has been
entirely killed and infected.
Yeah, I think I’ll pass on that.
Ignorance is bliss friends.
What do you think is locked away in Area 51?
Is it aliens?
Or is it something entirely different?
Someone, please make an indie game starring an alien inside of Area 51 who fights off
hoards of idiotic humans who have broken into the facility.
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