Game News Nuclear Union: Post-Apocalyptic Role-Playing

[Jaesun]

Tags: 1C Company; Nuclear Union

A small trailer and some info for 1C's Post Apocalyptic Role Playing Game has surfaced on IGN:

In the world of 1C and developer Best Way’s Nuclear Union, the USSR and United States wiped each other out with nuclear weapons following the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Most of the population across Europe, Asia and North America died out in the aftermath of the war, but those in the Soviet Union were prepared. They went underground and life continued, until in 2012 they emerged from their subterranean networks to assess the situation on the surface.

Scheduled for launch sometime in 2013 for PC, Nuclear Union is a role-playing game with an open progression structure. You’ll have a defined end goal, but the way you accomplish it is up to you, and you’ll be able to go back and freely explore any discovered territory. Gameplay be presented from a third-person perspective and though battles will take place in real-time, you do have the ability to pause the action to better line up your aim. You’ll also be able to recruit certain characters encountered on your adventures and travel with one at a time, and can issue basic commands to them during combat.

Playing as one of the pilots who bombed the United States, expect to encounter mutated monstrosities, bizarre anomalies and to defend yourself with Soviet prototype weaponry, including specialized assault rifles and tripe-barreled sub-machine guns.​

The full article with a teaser video and some screenshots can be found here.

Thanks shihonage!

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Looks like a TPP shooter. What a disappointment.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Hmm, interesting. Will keep an eye out for this.

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

Red Anchorage!

Priceless.

 

[visions]

Most of the population across Europe, Asia and North America died out in the aftermath of the war, but those in the Soviet Union were prepared. They went underground and life continued

Yeah, very fucking likely, unless they only mean members of the glorious party.

Still, I'm a sucker for old soviet shit and third person open-world arpg isn't a game-killer for me, so kinda interested.

 

[Pope Amole II]

So it is basically Fallout 3 clone (you even see power armour here), but on the red side - well, that's kinda cool idea, after all, USA is not the only country in the world it was curious to see other places in a postapocalyptic way, but the only problem is, 1C. Freaking 1C, lying and basically robbing their developers and not known for great quality control - since it's their project, chances that we'll see another Metalheart (or whatever) is incredibly high so it's better to keep your expectations pretty low until release.

 

[visions]

Still, as long as it has bunch of rotting old soviet vehicles (which aren't that common in the wild anymore even here in ex-sovietia) I'll probably derive some enjoyment from immersionlarping there. Shame about 1962 being the cutoff point though. I can see a ZIS/ZIL truck and what looks like a BTR-152 on one of the screenshots.

 

[Goral]

Out of the whole trailer I liked the painting the best:

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

Out of the whole trailer I liked the painting the best:

Ah, the classic "Utro v lesu". You should buy the candy with the painting on the wrapping.

 

[Overboard]

If they made an updated 7,62 in a post apoc setting I would so fucking buy it, sadly this doesn't look like it, although the idea is interesting enough.

 

[SuicideBunny]

sounds like it will have really shitty controls, fuckloads of bugs and a terrible localization.

 

[Luzur]

Russian Fallout clone? dunno man, im not much for soviet stuff.

maybe i let Vaarna play it and review it for me.

 

[Bulba]

Most of the population across Europe, Asia and North America died out in the aftermath of the war, but those in the Soviet Union were prepared. They went underground and life continued

Yeah, very fucking likely, unless they only mean members of the glorious party.

Still, I'm a sucker for old soviet shit and third person open-world arpg isn't a game-killer for me, so kinda interested.

Wasn't most of pop back than in the Party?

So it is basically Fallout 3 clone (you even see power armour here), but on the red side - well, that's kinda cool idea, after all, USA is not the only country in the world it was curious to see other places in a postapocalyptic way, but the only problem is, 1C. Freaking 1C, lying and basically robbing their developers and not known for great quality control - since it's their project, chances that we'll see another Metalheart (or whatever) is incredibly high so it's better to keep your expectations pretty low until release.

I must agree with you on everything... the chances of it being any good are close to none - I bet it will be a half done game full of bugs.

 

[eklektyk]

If they made an updated 7,62 in a post apoc setting I would so fucking buy it, sadly this doesn't look like it, although the idea is interesting enough.

there was some game while back with some of that details on "dungeon cleaners" engine but only in russian lang

right now i dont remember its title ...

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

Russian Fallout clone? dunno man, im not much for soviet stuff.

maybe i let Vaarna play it and review it for me.

Yo, luzur. Just for my personal curiosity, whence does the second part of your signature come from? Is it a historical quote? It's very fascinating.

 

[Overboard]

there was some game while back with some of that details on "dungeon cleaners" engine but only in russian lang

right now i dont remember its title ...

I'll have to look it up then, although without a translation I'm also not going to be able to play it.

 

[Ion Prothon II]

The game looks like a typical TPS full of cinematic experience and next-gen ideas, the screens resemble Stalker with a little twist of Half Life 2. Not excited.
And how original. Post- apo & dragons are the new zombies.

 

[visions]

Wasn't most of pop back than in the Party?

Wiki says "In 1986, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had over 19 million members or approximately 10% of the USSR's adult population" but I didn't notice a citation behind this claim. I'm pretty sure the majority weren't in the Party though, although the exact proportions probably varied quite a bit between the regions, so the number (if we assume this is correct) might have been quite a bit larger in the ethnically more Russian areas, where there was less resentment towards the regime among the general populace.

 

[eklektyk]

I'll have to look it up then, although without a translation I'm also not going to be able to play it.

so it looks that i've missed few things [ so many rus games gets offed before finish line - ex. heavy duty ]

it looks like it was discussed on 'dex awhile ago here : http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/man-of-prey.68605/
aparently its somewat "playable" for a 1c game

 

[shihonage]

The visuals were sort of exciting in nostalgia sense when the camera was panning around the "communist party room" - it looked as stuffy as I remember such Soviet indoors surroundings - and then they panned to a woman who was dressed in very non-Soviet style clothing, and immershun was ruined.

Should be more like this:

 

[Pope Amole II]

I must agree with you on everything... the chances of it being any good are close to none - I bet it will be a half done game full of bugs.

Well, to play the devil's advocate for a bit, one must admit that Best Way studios, the developers of this game, are or, rather, were a pretty good studio - at least if you trust the others on this one. I haven't played their "Heroes of World War II" (or however they dubbed "В тылу врага", it was something like this and I'm too bored to google it again), but, IIRC, it was pretty popular with both the press and the gamers and gathered many positive reviews (at least around these parts of the world - I dunno how good the localization went). Sill, that was five (or even more) years ago and after that the studio has done pretty much nothing except for the addons to their first game, i.e., shameless exploitation of their previous work. And the last one of those addons came before the big crisis that nearly destroyed normal russian game development hit everyone, so who knows what actually happened to the Best Way? Have they survived it, or are they just a husk of a studio, filled with some random & cheap students? And even if they managed to preserve their team as it was, the leap between somewhat hardcore strategy and modern popamole (there is a talk of "a pause which you can use to aim better" in the russian FAQ so that means that they're cloning VATS so popamole it is) ARPG is pretty huge, so will they make it? Somehow, I have a lot of doubts about this.

 

[Mortmal]

its a good find, of course better keep the expectations very low, the probability of getting of sub fallout 3 (the bethesda one not new vegas) is way higher than getting a shooter as good as stalker.Viusaly the trailer looks great at least.

 

[Luzur]

Russian Fallout clone? dunno man, im not much for soviet stuff.

maybe i let Vaarna play it and review it for me.

Yo, luzur. Just for my personal curiosity, whence does the second part of your signature come from? Is it a historical quote? It's very fascinating.

ah, thats my own quote from that Crusader Kings thread on the aftermath of the fall of Denmark.

 

[Surf Solar]

Man, even I am slowly fed up with so much postapocalyptic stuff. :/

 

[shihonage]

Yeah it's oversaturated now, so I'm definitely not going in that direction. For sure. The post-apoc USSR was one of ideas I considered, but they now got to that, too.