The Truth About 9th Company
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- RUS: February 15, 2008
| The Truth About 9th Company | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Extreme Developers and Kranx Productions |
| Publisher(s) | 1C (in Russia) |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
| Release |
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter, documentary |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
The Truth About 9th Company, officially launched on 18 February 2008 (Russian: Правда о девятой роте) is the first Russian documentary computer game.[1] The game simulates the historical battle for Hill 3234 which took place on 7–8 January 1988 in southern Afghanistan between Soviet paratroop units of the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment and mujahideen.
The game storyline is divided into seven episodes that illustrate the key points of the battle for Hill 3234. In each episode the player is set the same combat mission that was completed by the real defenders of the hill. Episodes follow one after another according to the progress of events which took place on the battle field.
Development
Dmitry Puchkov, the ideological leader and inspirer of development, and Andrei Kuzmin, the leader of KranX Productions game development studio, researched the details of Operation Magistral and the real circumstances of the Battle for Hill 3234.
The main takeaway of The 9th Company movie - "they were all swindled" - made the painful impression on me, and Dmitry's story about how everything happened, raised sudden desire to intelligibly tell as many people as possible how it was actually in that story.[2]
Dmitry Puchkov announced the idea of the game as a response to "the intentional destruction of historical memory of the people".[3]
As a result, the in-game mountainous terrain was reconstructed based on satellite imagery, and the progress of events was refined with the help of surviving eyewitnesses.[2][4]