We've certainly had plenty of hokey Chernobyl-set movies to illustrate how easy it is to do so, after all. You might wonder whether spinning a science fiction adventure out of a real-life disaster, one that people are still feeling the repercussions of, could be in danger of appearing tasteless. When we read the comments from Early Access players on Steam, we were very happy and proud of what we’ve achieved with this, because it was an enormous amount of hard work.' Getting in the zone And for some people involved in this part of the production, it was the most adventurous period of their careers. 'Getting to spend so much time in the Exclusion Zone and processing the excessive amounts of data collected on the trips to Ukraine was the biggest production challenge we had in our entire developer’s history.

We developed the internal technology named Reality 51, and we already had a lot of experience with using 3D scans thanks to our work on Get Even.' 'Before we even knew who the main hero would be, and what the game's plot would be, we knew that we wanted to take players to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone that we’d seen with our own eyes. What has remained consistent throughout development, however, has been The Farm 51's commitment to creating a play space authentically modelled on its own 3D-scans of the Exclusion Zone 'It was the only thing that was certain,' says Pazdur. 'We spent more than a year collecting photos, videos, and 3D scans.' Wojciech Pazdur

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