What Igor discovers in the Exclusion Zone is a mysterious substance called Chernobylite, which allows its user to travel back in time and re-experience past events to the point that they can actually change their own past decisions and thereby change their present situations. But enough of how the game looks – let’s talk about what it is, and how it plays.Ĭhernobylite tells the story of Igor, a Chernobyl nuclear physicist who after 30 years, returns to Chernobyl to search for clues of what happened Tatyana his coworker and fiancée, who disappeared shortly before the disaster. I had to take a half hour or so in the beginning to simply wander around and take it all in. We’re talking from as far up as 3D drone imaging of the buildings and landscapes, right down to the actual papers and garbage that is still scattered on the floors from when the initial evacuation occurred.Īnd folks, these visuals aren’t just your standard gaming fare – Chernobylite churns out some of the most photorealistic visuals I have seen on my PS4 to date. The reason I can say this is The Farm 51 spent a great deal of time in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone armed with 3D scanning photogrammetry devices and software to capture and deliver the most accurate and complete depictions of the Chernobyl plant and it is surrounding area. While Chernobylite certainly isn’t the first game to take on the area surrounding Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (see: Call of Duty Warzone), it is the most exact representation of the wasteland you will find in gaming. It’s only natural then than Chernobyl would begin popping back up in video games, and who would be more suited to tackle Chernobyl than a game developer situated in the former USSR’s nearest neighbor, Poland. There has been a lot of interest in Chernobyl lately, mostly drawn from HBO’s incredible historical drama miniseries Chernobyl (2019), which gave viewers a glimpse behind the Iron Curtain that covered up the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that happened in the former USSR in 1986. ![]() Polish developer The Farm 51, delivers this post-apocalyptic beauty with their incredible new survival horror adventure FPS.īut while so many other franchises have gone with the “what if” with their post-apocalyptic takes on New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Tokyo, or any modern city – The Farm 51 tackles the real-life current post-apocalyptic wasteland of the Chernobyl disaster with their game, which they call Chernobylite. Sure, they all feature landscapes littered with destruction and detritus, but there’s also that encouraging vision of nature returning and taking back its rightful place amongst the ruins. ![]() There is always a certain beauty to be seen in post-apocalyptic video games, TV shows, and films.
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