Hiya! It has been around 17 posts in this blog. This blog has covered various aspects of the nuclear world, from its history, its technology, its advantages, its detrimental effects, public opinion and so forth. Mostly technical aspects, involving walls of texts.
Today, I am going to go with something new, the effects of nuclear power in
video-gaming culture!
It seems that the power of nuclear is so strong, video game developers even create such nuclear-themed based games, mostly on post-apocolyptic in nature however. For some reason however, such games receive quite positive reviews from gamers! Although there are of course other aspects of the game that make it popular such as the play-style, plot, and so forth, having nuclear themed genres seem to give it a fresh look for gamers.
Such an example is the video-game S.T.A.L.K.E.R., developed from GSC Game World. This game centres upon a fictional second nuclear meltdown in Chernobly power plants. This exposed the surrounding area to massive radiation which has adverse effects on it. Mutations of flora and fauna as well as anomalies were the subsequent effects of the meltdown.
A poster of the game
Well, this is of course a fictional game, with fictional plots and environments. However, such games do paint a bleak picture about nuclear power, painting the most extreme and impossible situation that can ever happen from a nuclear accident. In video-games too, themes centering about nuclear war-fare are in abundance.
So, what could we possibly learn from such 'games'? Humankind would perhaps have to take a step back, reconsider and upgrade policies, laws, methods and technologies to ensure that nuclear safety is of utmost priority and enforced with due diligence.
links: http://stalker-game.ru/en/wallpapers_frame.php?id=1&res=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Chernobyl
