Radiation City, a successor to last year's Radiation Island, is headed to Nintendo Switch next week. It'll be available directly from the Switch eShop from 13th June.
In the game, players must scavenge and fight their way through the nuclear fallout of the Chernobyl power plant, with events being based on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. You'll be exploring historic landmarks like Hotel Polissya, the cultural centre, Cinema Prometheus, and more in the city of Pripyat, all to gather essential resources to survive against harsh elements and save a loved one.
Here are some of the game's features:
Revamped Visuals — Experience updated graphics and visuals, including lighting, shading, and building interiors.
New Combat Systems — Evade or slay hungry predators and subhuman creatures with updated physics-based combat.
Bigger Stakes — Switch players will experience a hardened world with bigger consequences, including checkpoint restarts instead of instant respawns.
We weren't overly impressed with Radiation Island when it came to Switch last year, so we're hopeful that these upgrades will make a significant difference.
Do you think this one has potential? Did you play the original last year? Let us know in the comments below.
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I seem to remember this site panning the original game pretty hard...
Hmm let’s hope it’s better than Island then...
And there’s a wee typo in the final para
“We weren't overly impressed with Radiation City when it came to Switch last year...”
Radiation Island was hot trash. No thanks.
I want S.t.a.l.k.e.r. that would be awesome.
@MadCow74 I thought this when I first saw the headline. A collection of the first three games and then the new one when (or if) it comes out would be lovely.
Yeah that’s an asset flip alright. 40 second mark has zombies clipping through each other’s bodies. I also love how the driver seems to be driving the car with no hands. 2019 baby!
After watching the Chernobyl mini-series and seeing the horrific consequences of the radiation I don’t really have much appetite for a game set there about gunning down radioactive mutants.
@MadCow74 How about porting the Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas to the Switch.
@LaytonPuzzle27 yes please!!
Ooooh! Distasteful and Steam Green Light quality. Count me out. How did they manage a sequel?
I actually liked the first and might get this. The brutal difficulty jumps were fun.
It has a certain 90s charm.
@BulkSlash I feel you on that one.
That’s not a subject I’d put in a videogame, specially a survival/horror where you have to fight radioactive “zombies”. Real people died in that accident. Would be alright to make a zombie game with World Trade Center victims? I don’t think so.
We built this city!
We built this city in Chernobyl!
@rushiosan Apart from the zombies being a stretch for 911, I don't think it should be off limits. Movies and video games turn real world disasters into entertainment all the time. Sure, you have to be careful about timing and how some things get handled. But sooner or later, every disaster turns into the next Titanic or WWII. And while it may seem callous to repackage deadly events for profit, it also helps generate curiosity amount people to young to remember the real event, so it's not all bad.
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