7/31/2023 0 Comments Chernobylite ps4 review![]() Thankfully, Chernobylite plays it fairly safe and respectful, preferring to focus on its own fictional, fantastical story first and foremost (even if that’s not necessarily the best part of exploring the exclusion zone). Still, it naturally carries a risk of being tasteless, given real people actually died and others were impacted horrifically because of negligence and stubbornness. It’s not the first piece of media to attempt such a depiction. The Chernobylite’s effects mean there are trips back in time to see the disaster as it occurred. Handy considering you’re searching for your wife, who vanished 30 years ago. That includes the titular Chernobylite, a fictional mineral created by the disaster zone that can be used to power a portal gun that can jump back and forth in time. The meat of the game is about survival, so most of it is spent venturing into the exclusion zone, fending off the many hostile presences out for your blood, whilst looking for supplies and materials. Not as a rubble-strewn land of post-apocalyptic disaster, but as a place truly abandoned and feasted on by scavengers and invaded by nature, I’d almost prefer to explore it as is, rather than have the supernatural element digging its claws into the place, because plenty is haunting about Chernobyl without the need for ghouls and portals. Not only as a recreation of the place itself (helped along by developer the Farm 51 actually going to Chernobyl and using 3D scanning tech to translate the real-world exclusion zone into digital form) but in the visual style, that captures the abandoned hell of the place in the present. The game’s depiction of Chernobyl is impressive. ![]() By ensuring both the narrative and the world can be altered in ways that are both big and small, Chernobylite ’s exclusion zone manages to make you feel like you’re a part of its ecosystem. Any of these decisions can tilt the balance of an already hostile environment in favor of you or against you.Ĭhoices in games are often quite straightforward when examined from afar, and usually have a negligible impact on the game world and its story overall. Along the way, you’ll have to make choices, both on a personal level and in how you move forward and develop your headquarters. The story structure is what sets it apart. then, right? The comparison is fair as it naturally takes a lot of inspiration from that. It seems the disaster has brought out something far more unpleasant and otherworldly. If only that were the only threat out there. He re-enters Chernobyl searching for her whilst forging unsteady relationships and encountering those who raid the wastelands for its tainted loot. While the tale is undeniably linked to those tragic events, it manages to craft its own story through tough moral choices and flexibility to its survival systems.Ĭhernobylite sees the protagonist, Igor, once a physicist working at the power plant itself, haunted by his wife’s disappearance during the disaster some 30 years previous. ![]() Thankfully there’s no awkward attempt to sell it straight in the story. Chernobylite attempts to faithfully recreate the surrounding area of the infamous real-life disaster, right down to the power plant at the center of it. Does it do enough to differentiate from its fellow nuclear horror brethren?Īs the name implies, the reality aspect of the game is in its setting of Chernobyl. Chernobylite is another to take the real horrors of nuclear disaster with a large side of the fantastical. Games tend to treat it as a grim playground, with the odd example party grounded in reality ( S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The harrowing impact of a radioactive disaster can be seen in gut-punching films such as When the Wind Blows, where the terror is born from the bleak reality of what it can do. The fascination with nuclear apocalypse as a form of horror is understandable given how the threat of it lingers in the background of our own lives as silent and menacing as radiation itself. ![]()
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