VIDEO: GSC Crew Visits Chernobyl

Here’s a video of the THQ, GSC developers of STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, taking a trip through the exclusion zone I suppose to collect textures, ideas, and a feel for what it’s like in the zone, and what it “could” have been like. I see they visit Pripyat, the venture to the gates of CNPP (Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant).

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1jfSrQ7dCc

My hats off to the crew for taking the trip, it really gave the game that extra bit of reality that makes it what it is. The only thing is, I fear for their safety as they were probably fed the usual “its a clean zone now” the disaster is over… far from it, scores of investigations into the zone have proven that there are unpredictable radiation “flare ups” and record levels of 10,000+ rem (10 rem is avg in NYC) as far away as Pripyat. Here’s an article about questionable Soviet data about the dangers of the zone. It’s tempting to want to check out CNPP for oneself, but it’s very hazardous, not because of mutated enemies, but an invisible killer that you probably never knew passed through you.