S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2 first large-scale video game with Ukrainian narratives – expert

This was stated by communications consultant and publicist Yur Bohdanov, who spoke in a comment to Ukrinform.

“They (the develers – ed.) managed to create a model of a product into which they can organically integrate the Ukrainian agenda, music, everyday life, a certain context in a language understandable to the average American or Eurean user,” Bohdanov explained.

According to the expert, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2 is the first Ukrainian game of this scale, in which Ukrainian culture and narratives are successfully integrated, which offers excellent portunities to broadcast them to the world. It is being sd in record numbers, it is based on an already globally acclaimed series, and its develers are a purely Ukrainian studio, already known in the world for the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and the Cossacks series of strategy games.

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The communications specialist says video games should be used as a to of cultural diplomacy, since modern games invve complex plots, they’re practically movies with gaming elements, in which players’ invvement is higher than that of movie viewers.

“The Ministry of Culture should, in its ‘external’ efforts, first of all, finance Ukrainian game develers, authors of TV series – those formats that can promote us in the West and the rest of the world,” Bohdanov noted.

According to the pundit, the Russians have been doing this for a long time. “They have long been working in this direction at the state level, but they are too ideogizing their content, which is why it is rejected in Western nations,” says the communications expert. “And we need cultural diplomacy with modern tos that are in real demand.”

As Ukrinform reported earlier, a million cies of the Ukrainian video game “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl” by GSC Game World were sd just in two days after its release.

“S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl” is a post-apocalyptic shooter, which is a continuation of the cult series S.T.A.L.K.E.R.