Red Comrades 4: Independence Day

A video game developed by the Russian studio Saturn Plus and published by Buka on October 9, 2003, for Windows, it is the fourth installment in the humorous adventure series featuring Petka and Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev. The story begins with the heroes stranded on an ice floe in the open ocean after the explosion of the Gross-bomb, from which they are suddenly transported to the year 2050 aboard a spacecraft en route from Tunisia to Moscow to the village of Kukuyevo. They learn that aliens have landed in the area of the Gadyukino Cataclysm and are demanding the entire Earth, citing a treaty signed with Ivan the Terrible in 1550. The heroes must undergo numerous trials: obtaining a visa at Sheremetyevo-13 airport, passing a medical examination at the military enlistment office, escaping from a psychiatric hospital, and traveling back 500 years in time to alter the terms of the treaty with the aliens. The gameplay is a classic point-and-click adventure with two-dimensional graphics divided into scenes, where the player controls three characters—Petka, Vasily Ivanovich, and Anka—each possessing unique abilities. The game introduces 3D cutscenes for the first time in the series, along with an updated interface and improved animation.