For one district you go to is dominated by the Jupiter factory – a gigantic real life factory that was modeled inside and out as realistically as possible. The exploration is the part I loved, the game’s designers really tried hard to recreate Chernobyl as well as they could, including many iconic places. That’s the main goal of the story, but you’re welcome to explore and take the game at your own pace. Major Degtyarev is dropped into Zaton, one of four real life districts in Chernobyl to try to understand where and why five Ukrainian helicopters crashed en route to the center of the Zone, the Chernoybl power plant itself. You can keep many on hand to stack their effects, but mostly they’re to sell. These anomalies spawn artifacts, which are essentially valuable new types of minerals which give you slight powers. Why? Because in the story a second catastrophic accident leads to reality bending (and dangerous) anomalies scattered around the area.
STALKER, refers to groups of treasure seekers who prowl the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. You play Major Alex Degtyarev, a former STALKER turned Ukrainian agent. The game turned out to be an extremely pleasant surprise! To discuss STALKER, you really need a quick primer on the basics of the game. I only heard of it when I stumbled on it, Googling Chernobyl looking for an online tour or interactive experience. It was developed by obscure Ukrainian developer CSG Game World and did not have much of a marketing budget to speak of. Call of Pripyat had a lot going for it, but just wasn’t very mainstream. The game plays like a budget Fallout 4 wherein it’s a first person shooter with RPG and survival horror elements.
Pripyat is actually the third game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series, and was released in 2010. Thankfully, the PC game S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat gives me the next best thing. Realistically, it’ll be a tough trip to do and with each year “the Zone” becomes more tightly controlled and harder to tour.
Train cars stuck on the tracks with no hope of passengers, huge dock cranes abandoned amidst their daily work, now posed like ancient extinct skeletal beasts stuck in time,reaching for salvation over the horizon. A 1980’s era Soviet city, Pripyat, frozen in time. I’ve been obsessed with the Chernobyl story since I first learned about it in grade school a cataclysmic nuclear fire that caused an entire region to be evacuated, now reclaimed by feral beasts and mutated catfish feeding off the reactor cooling pool effluence (this part of the story is true). When asked “if you could vacation anywhere, where would you most like to go?” Probably very few people answer “the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone”.
0 kommentar(er)
