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Pripyat' and surrounding areas are indeed safe, thanks to 47 pilots firefighters and Professor Legasov's sacrifise, but I would stay away from vehicle grave yards and Chernobyl-2 long range detection site. Anyone tried the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game? It's practically trip to the location, just make sure you leave light on.....

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I am going to have to disagree with that statement my friend. While visiting Pripyat, I had a device for measuring radioactive activity in the area (forget the name of it) but even in Pripyat, I was not able to visit the area around the ferris wheel / bumper cars because of high radiation. The average reading in Pripyat was still 40 times the normal level of radiation. Around Chernobyl the level was 77. I was not allowed around the area known as the "red forest" as radiation was 146 times the regular level (the trees that were there before had absorbed alot of radiation through their roots) I could see some of the vehicle graveyards but once again was not allowed near them due to high radiation. I have to find my photos as they are quite something. While in Pripyat I saw a lot of cool things. I visited an old school which still had math textbooks on and in the desks. An old hospital maternity ward which still had baby cribs and what looked like incubators. A room which was full of artwork and the like depicting former soviet presidents. Rooms in apartment buildings which were still fully furnished with couches, beds, kitchens, pianos, paintings and everything. It's pretty scary when you think that 50,000 people were evacuated within 48 hours. So if you ever do you go there, it truly is life changing, because everything, and I mean everything (aside from things that were looted) is still there.

I regret buying CoD4, everything is scripted, no ballistics at all and scenario, well, it's just moronic. And frankly I think it's ridiculous for a player to realize that it takes 7 to 10 marines to clear small deli shop unless human player is playing as a babysitter. One thing that makes it stand out, nonetheless, is graphics, especially during night USMC advance into Cairo, other then that- plain arcade. America's Army and Project Reality are the only games realistically modeling small modern combat. Stalker on the other hand has thorough ballistics and in game physics engine supported by suspenseful sound and video effects provided by crew working on actual locations. Besides now with the new add on with full DX10 support its graphics will outperform CoD4 easily.

Well I think we just completely drove this thread off course