

Finding food is necessary to keep you and your friends fed, and of course, you will need to procure ammo for your limited arsenal. When you’re out and about exploring the Excursion Zone, you’ll be spending a large chunk of your time keeping one eye out for enemies and the other searching for loot. Igor is quite the crafty character.literally. At this point, it’s almost like virtual tourism and I think it is fantastic. My personal favorite is the beautiful stained glass of Cafe Pripyat. You can even find the brightly painted cartoon characters on the cabins of the Emerald Summer Camp, which was sadly razed to the ground in a huge fire last year. If you have ever been there (or more likely, seen some pictures on the internet or other media) then you may just recognize some of the more famous landmarks, such as the imposing Duga radar array and the rusting Ferris wheel, not to mention the infamous Reactor #4 and it’s iron sarcophagus. The graphics are great but the environments are hands down the coolest thing since the developers spent time in the Exclusion Zone so they could 3D scan some of its most iconic locations into the game. I hate when this happens when you craft a game like this you need to be careful with the scene handling or else it makes the narrative look messy. A few missions later, that info is revealed again and Igor acts shocked like he didn’t just hear it a day or two earlier. In one of those cases, he tells you the fate of another character. The “non-linear” format needs more fine-tuning because one of the worst examples I can think of involves sparing the life of one character like two or three times. Now without spoiling anything else, the story manages to stay interesting for a bit but then tapers off until the final act. As the opening tutorial comes to an end, Olivier explains that you will need to gather supplies and allies from the denizens of the Exclusion Zone before you can even think of returning to the power plant. After a deadly encounter with the unnatural power-wielding Black Stalker, Igor and his wounded mercenary friend Olivier open a portal and escape to their base to lick their wounds. Now compelled to return to Chernobyl and seek her out, he enlists the help of a few mercenaries to aid him in his venture to acquire a mysterious and powerful crystallized source of energy called Chernobylite to fuel his Rick Sanchez-style portal gun. Though Igor survived the explosion, Tatyana vanished and was assumed dead. The main protagonist, Igor, worked in the power plant 30 years prior with his wife Tatyana. Oddly enough, the goal of the game is to pull off an epic heist of sorts in a power plant based in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone. but with quite a few twists, does it make a worthy addition to the pantheon? I could just tell you now, but that isn’t how reviews work so get ready for some good old-fashioned reading.
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It is hard to deny that PC classic S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat set the table but as other franchises like Metro has proved, there is plenty of appetite for more. When all the cards are laid on the table, I have to admit that Russiapocalypse (Is that a real thing? It is now!) is my favorite subgenre of all the post-apocalyptic scenarios that videogames and other media have envisioned. Seeing the cold light filtering in through the broken concrete as you’re sifting through the wreckage of people’s past lives, hoping for even the smallest bit of food or even a few rounds of ammunition: anything to eke out a living so you can survive just a little bit longer. Listening to the crooning sound of the Geiger counter as it frantically ticks away to warn you of toxic, face-melting radiation as I’m prowling through the urban jungle. I love the smell of an irradiated apocalyptic wasteland in the morning.
