

While the plot is obviously different between the games, your missions end up navigating through the Zone in an open world structure. Through the different games, you are put in the shoes of a stalker in the middle of the very strange and dangerous Zone. Here it is generally considered safe if you need to check your gear or heal up. While this just sounds like a bunch of fucking garbled ideas pulled from a hat, what made this game stand out was how the gameplay and setting worked hand in hand to create one of the most immersive experiences in first person shooters to this day.

Now add monsters, bandits, radioactive blowouts, Russian folk singing, and AK's galore and it sums up the game setting pretty well. The Stalker series is more based off an old Tarkovsky film “Stalker” in which scouts named stalkers lead people in and out of an military restricted area where strange anomalies exist known as the Zone. If we cared to dive in a little, we would have found that Chernobyl was just an excuse to use an even crazier idea. I'm sure that I'm not the only one that blew this game off with Shadow of Chernobyl sounding tacky and a little stupid. The Stalker Series Guide: An intro to the series, gameplay tips, and mod suggestions ( just this mod, it includes patches )Īnd honestly i didnt notice any bugs that really hurt the game, just odd encounters that would make you go,"huh, neat."īut, if your really worried about bugs ( which you shouldn't ) try the zone reclamation project - stomps out some loose ends with some bugs but i honesly dont think its needed.Created on Sunday, 21 September 2014 21:47 somthing is very special about the base game, idk.īut, for your second play through play with the Autumn Aurora mod - really overhuals the game in a good way, one if not my favorite stalker mod of all time.

you will regret not doing so if you jump straight into the mods ( overhauls ). so please do yourself a favor and play it vanilla ( with patches if you want ). its not much of the orginal game because it overhuals it so much. Imo for your first playthrough go with the vanilla game first, some might say go with the Stalker Complete Mod - which patches some bugs but honestly your hurting yourself not playing the game in vanilla.
