Holiday In Chernobyl

Florida? Paris? Las Vegas? F*ck them! Why not spend some vacation time fighting to possess a ruined nuclear reactor in the Ukraine?

As you may or may not know, Chernobyl was a Soviet nuclear facility that suffered a catastrophic explosion in 1986. They had to abandon a city nearby (Pripyat, Ukraine), and farming won't be possible in the area for 20,000 years.

However, that doesn't stop people from fighting to own this ruined ground.

The Pripyat: Shattered Skies sim is a combat sim based on the VICE combat system. Based in the area around the radioactive power plant, Allied and Axis troops fight for primacy. I don't do a lot of gun-combat (I prefer hand to hand), but this place looked like a lot of fun.

It's not Allied/Axis like World War II, unless Japan was on our side and Russia and the Ukraine weren't essentially the same thing in 1945. I don't recall Brazil being one of the big WWII powers, but their flag is on the Allied list. South Korea fights for the Axis, which makes me want to throw out my Daewoo television.

I was there from 2-3 AM SLT, and it was very active. Soldiers in full gear are running around everywhere, tanks are firing away, jets are landing (I saw one blow up on the runway), and the whole vibe was that kill-or-be-killed trip that makes video gaming so enjoyable.

I spent a lot of my time romaing around a ruined apartment complex (good rooms still available). The gist of the games seems to be the possession of certain locations on the battlefield.

I never got to the reactor, which requires quite a bit of fighting, but I saw enough to know that the only people vacationing there are folks who like to stalk radioactive wastelands and kill Russians (or Americans). That sounds evil, but it's all just healthy, pixelated fun!

Come on down and slaughter a Vichy Frenchman or two!