Apparently the development team took pictures of the entire area, so this should be a semi-realistic representation of a city in the former Soviet Union after the catastrophe, and perhaps of the wider area as well. It is set in the exclusion zone erected around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor when it blew up in 1986, as opposed to the fictional nuclear wasteland that is the USA after World War 3 in the Fallout series. is definitely worth playing in its own right if you like post-apocalyptic games. There are some big differences though, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I can say that the realistic depiction and detailed descriptions in this game truly got me interested in guns again, it's just a shame I'm living in countries where it's not the norm to have some, not legally at least.Īt first look it seems pretty much like Fallout 3, only in the Ukraine. A bit later in the game the player gets access to a rocket launcher, sniper rifles with silencers and assault rifles with grenade launchers, and you can upgrade your kit with various options, not only weapons but suit and armor as well.
You're introduced to a wide array of weapons from both NATO and the ex-Warsaw Pact countries, and, as we have become used to since titles like Soldier of Fortune 2, rifles and hand guns show realistic recoil that needs the player to compensate. One thing you can't escape noticing is the extremely good and complete translation and localization, into German in this case, which bodes well for the professional quality and playability of this title. The game is by now more than two years old, but I'm sure there are still people like myself who haven't played it yet. Given how keen I was on the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, which incidentally never got played due to lack of time but is still lying around somewhere, this seemed like too good to pass up. Not sure what happened to Sold Out games and others, but these labels seem to change periodically. It's re-released on Green Pepper, one of these El Cheapo labels that put out older games. On a recent trip for an interview in my old home town, which feels like in a time long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away when compared to the life in the UK I'm used to, I found the game at the local department store for 5.99 Euro. Finally, the world of work and further education is back and keeping me busy, so we can hopefully afford a nice holiday at the end of the year without dipping into our savings. Well, I haven't been around lately due to playing the awesome S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat and plenty of other commitments.
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