

While there are some crafting mechanics, axes, guns, food, clothing, and more are just lying around to pick up. Most of the things you need to cover these basic needs can be found simply by scavenging through the environment. Being that you're in a pretty hostile environment, you'll also need to outfit yourself so that you don't get exposed to too much radiation, freeze to death in the middle of the night, or get torn apart by irradiated ghouls or wolves. First and foremost are thirst and hunger, which are meters that constantly drain over time and can be refilled by finding things like bags of chips, wells, dried fruit, and sodas. In order to survive in Radiation City, there are a number of things that you need to manage as a player. In fact, you'll need to make sure that you're ready to survive in this strange land so that you don't starve, dehydrate, get too exposed to radiation, or get torn apart by the irradiated mutants wandering the streets of Pripyat. With this limited information, you are then given a quest marker to begin the search for your compatriots, but that's not the only thing for you to do in this nuclear wasteland. From there, you wake up in a field near your downed aircraft with only a slight clue as to where the other passengers you were flying with are. Radiation City opens by showing a cinematic of your character flying in a plane over Chernobyl just moments before crash-landing in Pripyat. While the game sets up an intense and creepy atmosphere, the game undercuts its potential with some clunky controls, poor environment design, and strange item randomization. It's a first-person survival game that is somewhat of a successor to Radiation Island. This is exactly what Radiation City is all about. Imagine being dropped into Chernobyl and needing to find a way to survive.
