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Got this game with the idea that it would be fun. I was partly right but I'm truly not impressed. Some may really like it but as for me, I simply passed it on.
I have an xbox 360 and a PS3 but I just got this game and let me tell you im hooked to this game.It may have a few bugs but this game is just amazing and creepy at the same time haha
It is about a wasteland, but not the kind you have experienced before. When someone speaks to you and you don't understand it, it makes you feel like maybe you really don't belong there in the Occlusion Zone.The story is great and mysterious, and with the randomness that the game throws in (even if it isn't nearly as much as it was hyped to be), the replay value is ever-present. This is one of those games that is hard to describe, if only because there are so many things terribly broken about it. This is a shooter that makes a surreal world feel as if it really exists somewhere palpable; while playing, it is easy to imagine that the Red Forest really does contain these mysteries.The essence of this game is that it feels right, even to the point where the weaknesses become strengths. A lot. STALKER takes place in a world in which the Chernobyl accident happened as it did in our world, and then years later exploded again; but this second explosion wasn't nuclear. The voice acting is rough and repetitive, but the repetition becomes familiar like an American tourist in any non-English country, where the hostel-keepers speak the same few phrases they know to simply communicate basic phrases.
It is a game where you are not supposed to fight against an evil empire and beat their elite troops with a hairpin. The game is a shooter, but also a light RPG. By the time you unravel the mystery of it all, the surprise feels right because you have become so intimately involved with the character of the Zone, and have come to see it as its own living, breathing thing.Even at the easier difficulty, some will find this game to be very difficult, from start to finish. The Ukrainian government cordons the area, and stalkers begin to pick through the rubble, finding artifacts endowed with supposedly magical (though never outlandish) properties, twisted mutants, and factions at war. The combat is difficult and sometimes choppy, but the result is that you feel like you're actually shooting at someone and missing and dying continually because you aren't any good, not because the game doesn't work. The enemies are professionals and they will kill you. The journey is worth it, however, and this game is so filled with tense moments that it really defines what horror games ought to be like.
The games are the ingenious combination of FPS and RPG. I got the other STALKER game free with the purchase of an AMD 6400 processor. I bought this one to complete the story. Even though they are buggy, they are thoroughly enjoyable FPS adventures. STALKER SoC is totally worth the 15 bucks I spent.
I bought this game extremly disscounted from a local vendor. I found the graphics lacking. I should have watched the review on G4 before purchasing. I agree with the G4 review 100%.
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