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Chernobyl: Terrorist Attack

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I am a happy gamer this week.

First Gamersgate provided me with the wonderfully weird "Steam Slug",
now they've made my week by adding the marvelously craptastic
"Chernobyl: Terrorist Attack" to their catalogue of obscure and naff
games.

"Chernobyl:Terrorist Attack" is an FPS that isn't anything like any of
the S.T.A.L.KE.R. games. It is set in Prypiat (as spelt in the game
and pronounced "Prippit") in and around the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant,
but that's where any similarities end.

The story is simple enough, terrorist have taken control of the NNP
and are threatening to blow it up, unleashing further nuclear
devastation in an area already ravaged by radiation. Apparently this
also threatens the world at large as well.

As I'm sure you can guess, your job is to single handedly wipe out
this threat and save the world. 

The graphics are quite nice but nothing like cutting edge. The weapon
models are rather poor but the sounds are adequate. Gameplay consists
of basic missions such as "Oh no it's an ambush, kill 25 enemies
before moving on to the next area". When you've done that you get to
move on, only to be told "Look out! It's a helicopter! Hide in the
bushes. It's another ambush! Kill all the enemies!"

Objectives are marked on your mini-map. If you stray from your
"objective area" you mysteriously die. I'm not quite sure why you die.
You just do. You get a message that tells you to stay in that area and
then get taken back to the last checkpoint.

When you kill the last enemy to complete an objective, you get a
cutscene that dramatically zooms in on your last victim as he or she
falls to the floor. It's really naff. I don't know why you get to see
that. You just do.

This game is bastard hard. Whereas "Steam Slug" is difficult due to
the sheer number of enemies thrown at you at once and the pure
feebleness of your weapons. "Chernobyl: Terrorist Attack" is hard
because you can barely see your enemies and they can shoot a bumblebee
out of the air from 200m with a handgun.

To make it even harder, you only have a small amount of ammunition and
grenades. Just about enough to clear a map if you make practically
every shot count. To get more you have to kill your enemies and pick
up what they drop. This actually makes the game quite challenging and
rather fun.

The AI is pretty basic to say the least, but enemies will pursue you
if you shoot at them and run away. If you do that you soon die because
you "left the objective area", but I guess it's the thought that
counts.

There are areas that you can't enter for more than a few seconds due
to radiation. These areas are random and unmarked. There is no rhyme
nor reason as to why they're "dirty" and adjoining areas are not. They
just are.


"Chernobyl: Terrorist Attack" is suitably dreadful. I love it. £14.95
well spent.

http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/DD-CHERNOBYL/chernobyl-terrorist-attack

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Chernobyl: Terrorist Attack Mr Rob <noemailformethx@jsjsaiiowppw.com> - 2011-04-01 22:55 +0100
  Re: Chernobyl: Terrorist Attack Mr Rob <noemailformethx@jsjsaiiowppw.com> - 2011-04-01 23:28 +0100
    Re: Chernobyl: Terrorist Attack "Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam@never.spam> - 2011-04-02 00:09 +0100
    Re: Chernobyl: Terrorist Attack Tim O <timo56REMOVE@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-01 19:58 -0400
    Re: Chernobyl: Terrorist Attack William McNee <wullie@hame.the.noo.invalid> - 2011-04-02 19:29 +0100

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