I rushed through the end a bit so I might have missed something, but it seemed like the town of Pripyat got ridiculously little play time and visibility compared to what all the previews led me to believe. The linearity is a really really bad surprise after all the hype of how open ended this game was going to be. The game is also rather short, and supringsingly linear. Such as bugs in the AI, ridiculous respawning times for enemies. I haven't played a lot of survival horror games so I don't know how it compares to those, but it's definitely right up there with the Thief series (kind of).īut these are just moments that eventually get marred by overall lack of quality. Not at all times, but some moments make it probably the scariest game I've played.
This feeling obviously waned towards the end, but it still felt like getting off the beaten path was an adventure every time. Especially in the beginning of the game, the strangeness of the world really hit me, and going deeper into the zone really felt like adventuring, probably more than anything in Oblivion or Morrowind. The atmosphere is incredible at times, with all the anomalies, roaming monsters, weather effects and stuff. This game is absolutely brilliant and a totally fucked up piece of shit at the same time.
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