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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.
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.
The game is AMD Eyefinity validated. [2] The game has a Limited Special Edition, released only in Germany, that features an A3-sized map of the Zone, 2 faction patches, a stalker bandanna and a "stalker" lighter, as well as the metal case in which the game is included.
Xbox and “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2” maker GSC Game World are set to release a documentary following the developers of the sequel game as they work to complete the title while living amid the war in ...
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]
It is the fourth main game released in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series, as well as the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game in 15 years since the release of Call of Pripyat in 2009. Initially announced following the release of Call of Pripyat , S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was planned to release in 2012, before it was ultimately cancelled on the year of its ...
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. GSC Game World was the first company in Ukraine to localize PC games to the Russian language. In 2002, it became a ...
A video game walkthrough is a guide aimed towards improving a player's skill within a particular video game and often designed to assist players in completing either an entire video game or specific elements. Walkthroughs may alternatively be set up as a playthrough, where players record themselves playing through a game and upload or live ...