Pripyat



Pripyat is the city where workers for the Chernobyl atomic power station in the Ukraine lived. A disaster at the station in 1986 caused both Pripyat and Chernobyl to be completely evacuated.

Single Player
Pripyat (NOT Chernobyl itself) is home to the levels All Ghillied Up and its sequel One Shot, One Kill. In both these levels, the ghost city is portrayed as a gloomy, dark, lonely and scary place with grey skies and long, unkempt grass. In these two missions the player plays as as Captain Price, then Lieutenant Price, in a flashback. He is under the command of Captain Macmillan and the player must sneak past Ultranationalist forces in a ghillie suit, hence the name, All Ghillied Up. In the next mission, the player must try to assassinate Imran Zakaev, who is the main protagonist in the game. When the character knocks his arm off with a Barrett M82 SASR .50 caliber rifle, a helicopter spots them and they must escape the hotel which they assassinate from. While escaping, Macmillan is injured and must be carried by the player to the extraction point which is at the ever-famous Pripyat ferris wheel.

See the main articles of these two missions for more information.

Multiplayer
The multiplayer level Bloc is set in Pripyat. It consists of two large apartment blocks and the 'Azure' swimming pool, which is largely overlooked and only really plays a part in headquarters. The ferris wheel is also visible. It is also noteworthy that it is snowing in the level.

Trivia

 * Pripyat, as we see it in the two single player levels looks like it does in real life, which makes these levels even more depressing. This can also be said for the multiplayer level Bloc, which, to me at least, is quite depressing.


 * Buildings worth mentioning include the hotel 'Polissya', which is the building you assassinate Zakaev from, the centre 'Energetik', the large building near the end of All Ghillied Up, the 'Azure' swimming pool, and the Pripyat ferris wheel and bumper car ride which were due to open on May 1st, 1986, but never did.




 * Just before you enter the large building at the end of All Ghillied Up, you might hear children laughing and playing. You can hear a similar thing on Aftermath.

Credit
Thank you to Wikipedia, for the images, and thank you to whoever wrote the article on All Ghillied Up for some trivia facts.