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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person shooter survival horror video game franchise developed by Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World.The series is set in an alternate version of the present-day Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, where, according to the series' backstory, a mysterious second Chernobyl disaster took place in 2006.
The game was lauded for its well optimized engine with relatively few bugs and glitches, for example, GameSpot said, "The most stable S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game yet also happens to be the most atmospheric and compelling." [8] Other reviews by websites previously opposed to new titles in the series have also given Call of Pripyat positive
The game received "generally favourable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic, [7] although not to the extent S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl received. Edge opined the game "turns the best and worst of PC gaming into something extraordinary." [9]
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. takes place in an area called the Zone. The Zone is based on the real-life Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and is also inspired by fictional works: Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's science fiction novella Roadside Picnic (1972) which was loosely adapted into Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker (1979), as well as the film's subsequent novelization by the Strugatsky brothers.
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GSC Game World is a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kyiv with a second temporary office in Prague. [a] Founded in Kyiv in 1995 by Sergiy Grygorovych, it is best known for the Cossacks and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series of games.
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