The opening swamp's actually the best demo for the faction war sections. It plays much like any realistic-edged FPS does, but with minor RPG elements (you can improve your equipment or equip ability-improving artifacts) and it's in a living open-world. For example, the Bandits are only after wealth, but Duty are trying to fight against the increasing insanity of the Zone. Various factions populate the area, each acting according to its own desires.
However, they also act as portals by which artifacts have arrived - and it's these alien items which have brought the Stalkers to the zone. Anomalies dot the landscape - often invisible counter-natural singularities which maim or kill anyone who walks into them.
You play an eponymous stalkyguy operating in the Zone around Chernobyl where reality has been rent apart as reality tends to be. In practice, it mainly shows that there are no good or bad ideas: only good and bad executions. It's a graphically improved prequel that integrates a mass of things that were promised for Stalker with assorted game tweaks that - on paper - sound as if they'd improve the immersion of the game considerably. Clear Sky - while interesting in half a dozen ways - ultimately doesn't. To me, it kind of sums up the best of Stalker - its sheer vigour and determination to summon a world completely overwhelming your expectations (and experience) of technical foibles. I'm playing it in a room with fellow journalists, so call them over to have a giggle at Stalker having one of its very special moments.Įveryone has just enough time to gather before it comes hurtling at my head causing a mass panicked jump and me diving at the controls to run back the way I came. A paint-pot is levitating, bouncing against the ceiling and twitching spasmodically. I'm descending into one of the toxic Ukranian underworlds and come across something that makes me stop and laugh. The first moment that comes to mind when thinking of the original Stalker (we'll dispense with "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." if that's alright) is from my first playthrough.
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