Also, I seemed to have developed a tolerance for the shortcomings often inherent in these eastern European games (having played a handful of them at this point-my expectations are low…err, I mean, realistic.)īut the reason I initially took a pass on the game is also one of its selling points. Gameplay-wise, that meant roaming around decrepit, crumbling apartment complexes jogging through alleys strewn with rusting hulks of cars and equipment marveling at overgrown city streets and sidewalks climbing piles of cracked pavement slogging through sewer pipe and fending off swarms of troublesome monsters and human riff-raff in underground laboratories.
Up front, there was a lot about the game that clicked with my Chernobyl-inspired sensibilities: It takes place in the far-enough future of 2096, in the city of Kiev that has been sitting there destroyed and generally uninhabited for the last 100 years.
“Collapse” went from a game I initially didn’t bother with to a game that, to date, I have spent the most amount of time (ever in my life) just preparing to play.
Of course, things are usually easier said than done. It brings nothing new to the table, but if you like a straight-up, third-person-almost-over-the-shoulder action game with varied environments (from nicely detailed sewers, to abandoned labs, to wrecked and uninhabited cities, to LSD-inspired alternate realities), varied opponents (humans and monsters alike), an interesting half-decent apocalyptic story with relatively well-drawn characters who have complex-enough relationships, you should play this game. Maybe I’m getting old (check, I am getting old), and my snarkiness is softening, but “Collapse: Devastated World” (2008, Ukraine) is a beautiful game. All told, this is probably the best way to play the game in English–in other words, pony up the cash for the English Steam version and don’t fiddle with my translation materials, which are incomplete anyway.) The voicing is still in the original language as I understand it, but all text and subs have been translated properly. (NOTE: This game, only a handful of years after I wrote this post, is now apparently available on Steam. Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green.
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