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- Atmosphere of the Exclusion Zone
- Research of new depths of the Zone – Red Forest, Limansk, Pripyat Undergrounds, etc
- A-Life-driven War of the Factions
- Possibility to play and lead any faction to victory
- Advanced A-Life system
Product Description
Product InformationGo back one year from the events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. In Clear Sky a group of stalkers has reached the heart of the Zone – Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. An immense blowout of anomalous energy changes the Zone. There are no more reliable and relatively safe roads. Entire levels vanish in the outbursts of anomalies. Stalkers and even expeditions die or end up sealed on the lost territories. New areas which remained unknown since … More >>
The first Stalker was my favorite game, I’m quitting this one early on. It’s harder, balkier, less logical in it’s missions, full of people hollering for help against dogs(?), and I can’t find radiation drugs anywhere. If you even get close to radiation it takes three medkits to stabilize, and if that doesn’t do it, that little bit of radiation will kill you. Bandages have no effect. There are plenty of games that are more satisfying. Pass this one by.
Rating: 1 / 5
WELL, I PLAYED THE FIRST STALKER, AND THOUGHT WHY NOT. I`M HAVING A HARD TIME GETTING INTO THIS ONE. IT DOES`NT HAVE THE SAME SPUNK AS THE FIRST ONE DID.
T. T. F. N.
CANDYMANKIRK
Rating: 3 / 5
The game’s DRM scheme didn’t let me play it with my DVD drive. My computer rig uses an external DVD drive via USB rather than internal drives. So it must have thought my game was a forgery and wouldn’t start playing.
Luckily, I contacted their excellent customer support, and they helped me out, sorta. Basically the solution was to change DVD drives. Which DID work, but only because I had an extra drive. How many people have extra drives just sitting around that they can plug-in?
Anyway, the game works so far. But it’s picky and takes a good minute before launching while it figures out if my version is “legit” or not. It might be better to just go with the download version than the DVD disc if the antipiracy features are going to be this particular in games.
I can’t change my star rating, since this is an edit. So I guess it still gets a 1, but that’s largely due to the DRM scheme here. The game itself appears to be running fine, so far, I’ve barely cracked the surface.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was truly surprised to see any good reviews of this game.
I’ll go ahead and go over the few good points first.
Graphics – the landscape/foliage is bad but the textures in the people and weapons are pretty good.
I never had any issues with phantom walls or clipping problems.
Although it is free roaming, it has these annoying blocks like, if you try to go into a tunnel, it just keeps flashing you back outside the opening. Even if your objective is in the doorway of the tunnel, it won’t let you near it.
Bad:
This game has almost no real plotline, bad voice acting that just repeats and repeats, it crashes constantly and the bug reports are useless.
The weight restrictions on your character are more annoying than an interesting quirk that may have been added to make the game more realistic. It requires you to constantly return and sell 3-4 items at a time.
You will be told to go to collect your reward from the commander but the guides will not let you know where that is and the maps are not labeled so you are guessing if you are going to the right location.
There are pathetic wire fences keeping you from walking from one area on the map to another so you are forced to use the guides.
The game will tell you there’s loot stashed somewhere and when you go to the location, it will be empty, or worse, you will pay 900 for a tip to a secret stash just to get a med pack and bandage?
The mutants, monsters, and enemies all look alike as well.
I was truly upset with the constant crashes, bugs and the poor plotline. I think I saw these exact same maps in the other games so it makes me think the designers were just too lazy to make a new game and just made the same game, using the same game maps.
Rating: 2 / 5
If you haven’t played the first one, you should as a lot of the stuff in this bad boy will make more sense. If you are on the fence on whether to buy it, here are some tips that I hope help.
Get this game if:
1.) You like challenging and engrossing games.
2.) You were around in the 80′s and remember the Cold War.
3.) You enjoy more realistic gunplay. Meaning, one or two bullets will kill you and you can bleed out. No regenerating health bars here.
4.) You leap at the chance to play a game that tries new ways to do things. The world is very open, and the order you do things is rarely forced on you.
5.) You don’t mind doing a little legwork to get things working right, and you have an ample machine to run it.
Don’t bother if:
1.) You think Call of Duty is the best game ever.
2.) You think regenerating health bars are necessary to enjoy a game.
3.) You get angry if a game crashes ever.
4.) You need games to hold your hand and tell you how to jump.
5.) You can’t be bothered to read information that you pick up on your journey.
6.) You think this is going to be anything like Fallout 3, it’s NOT. (Fallout 3 sucks by the way)
This game will waste no time throwing you into the thick of things, and you will likely die a lot at first. But as you get the hang of it you’ll find it pretty damn awesome. The biggest selling point is the immersion, which is laid on thick. I think Zero Punctuation’s review was pretty spot on.
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I personally played from beginning to end with no crashes after I patched. And it’s only like 10 bucks these days so go for it!
Rating: 5 / 5