1C and Men Of War men Best Way are making a post-apocalyptic RPG called Nuclear Union. This is basically party-based STALKER/Metro in the Men Of War engine.

Uh huh.

It’s as if they sat down in a meeting and said “What would really make Jim Rossignol’s head explode on a Friday afternoon?” Well, they came pretty damned close. A bit more on this, including the first trailer, below.
 

This is the most troubling press release opening line I can remember:

“Every child knows the glorious story that lead to today. When the Capitalist Alliance lead by the Americans refused to allow our defensive screen in Cuba, in 1962, and then attacked us with nuclear weapons. However our Motherland and the Soviet Forces were better prepared than the dogs knew. We leveled them, and half the planet, to show our sickle is sharp and the hammer hits hard indeed!”

It’s fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis caused all out nuclear war, and now people are emerging from the bunkers of New Moscow to take back the world. Yes, it’s all looking a bit Fallout-meets-Metro-via-Stalker. But it’s being made by an RTS studio, with their RTS engine. And check out this bit of the FAQ: “Anomalous fields emerged on top of the Earth following the nuclear strikes, and animals and people who failed to hide out in the bunkers due to various reasons, mutated. Hence Nuclear Union will definitely feature anomalies and mutants!”

So yes: a party-based RPG using the Men Of War engine, with all the trappings of STALKER. Like so: “Nuclear Union features a third-person view camera. The player is unable to control the party members, but it is possible to do something about their behavior and to assign commands to them during the combat.”

The trailer doesn’t show any game footage, but [UPDATED] is apparently all in-engine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Dj-EeeZOg

But we do know there’s going to be a big old freely-roamable world: “The explorable world is constantly growing. The protagonist can move freely around any already-visited locations. The more the plot unfolds the more locations he will be able to visit. If we talk about the freedom in the game, it’s pretty large. There is a global goal, but it’s totally up to the player what steps they will take to achieve it. The freedom of the player’s actions will only be limited by their imagination.”

And here are some images.

Man!

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/22/some-stalker-fallout-1c-proposes-a-nuclear-union/#more-113277

Sorry video won't embedd in the OP as it only supports iframe for embedding which VGChartz doesn't support

Fucking awesome. Between this, Dead State and TLOU, my post-apocalyptic itch will be thoroughly scratched :D

Don't forget Wasteland 2 and Metro: Last Light

I took me like 5 times before I understood anything of the thread title... looks nice!

yea...

I should fix that

how about that? It's slightly better

One does not simply make an RPG exclusive to PC these days...

Best Way does, they have only ever made PC games and they are basically taking their PC exclusive real time tactics engine and making an RPG with it. 1C the publisher mostly does PC exclusive games as well as they are a Russian company that makes sense.

Then there are the dozzens of other PC exclusive RPGs comming like Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns (well I guess it's also comming to tablets but they are kinda PCs), Legend of Eisenwald, Torchlight II, Diablo III, Krater, Dead State, Grim Dawn, Divinity: Original Sin and probably a bunch of other PC exclusive RPGs that have been recently released or are in production. That is not including MMOs of course, I mean they are are not AAA productions or anything but there are a bunch of them.

Is it anything like Valkyria Chronicles?