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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl has always been an overly ambitious
game, which is probably why it has arrived several years later than
originally expected. The game's goal is to create a virtual world with
an ecology all its own and then place you in the middle of it. That's
something that's rarely been attempted, particularly in a first-person
game. However, to the credit of THQ and Ukrainian developer GSC Game
World, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is an impressive accomplishment. This
first-person survival game is at times amazing and engrossing and on
par with such classics as Deus Ex and System Shock.

This is another first-person game that features a silent and mysterious
protagonist, much like Half-Life's Gordon Freeman. You play as the
Marked One, a heavily armed scavenger suffering from amnesia and stuck
inside the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant at
Chernobyl, Ukraine. Yes, the same nuclear plant that exploded in 1986
and, in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s fiction, again in 1989, creating a radioactive
hotspot brimming with mutants, heavily armed rival factions, and all
sorts of weird, paranormal activity. Your task: Figure out who you are
and what's going on at the core of the zone.

At its heart, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person survival game
that blends action with role-playing. This isn't a linear game, like
Half-Life or Call of Duty, where you basically are restricted to a
straight path and are taken for a tightly controlled and scripted ride.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s huge environments and open-ended gameplay make it more
like a role-playing game, as you can go where you want and do what you
want if you're willing to live with the consequences. However, you
don't have to worry about traditional role-playing attributes such as
strength or intelligence, or accumulating skills and abilities.
Instead, all you have to worry about is your skill with a rifle and
scavenging enough weapons, ammunition, and med kits from fallen enemies
to keep going.

Slowly but steadily, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. introduces you to the
bizarre world of the zone, a place where the fabric of reality is being
ripped apart. Strange energy anomalies are everywhere, and wander into
one at your own hazard. These anomalies produce rare and valuable
artifacts that can be collected and traded, or even equipped, as they
can confer special abilities. Perhaps the most useful ones enhance your
endurance, letting you run for far longer than normal, which is a
particularly valuable ability to have when traversing the huge area of
the zone. And, of course, danger lurks everywhere in the form of
enemies that are both human and not-quite human, as well as from
animals.

To battle them, you'll have a large arsenal of weapons to eventually
choose from, mainly in the form of assault rifles, shotguns, and
pistols. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. features one of the best ballistics models ever
seen in a game, and as a result, firefights feel authentic as you try
and hit someone with what can be a wildly inaccurate rifle. The name of
the game is using cover effectively and firing short, accurate bursts,
particularly at the targets' heads. After a battle, you can loot the
dead for weapons and ammunition, and one of the nice touches in the
game is that you can't run around with an arsenal of 9 or 10 different
weapons. Instead, the inventory system restricts what you can carry
mainly by weight, and most weapons use a different type of ammo, which
means that you've got to be judicious in selecting what you take with
you. There's simply no way you can haul around three or four different
weapons, their ammunition, and everything else that you need to survive
in the zone. This includes health packs, bandages, radiation medication
(vodka will also do in a pinch), and even food. You've got to eat
regularly in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and if you go too long without food,
hunger warning signs appear.

The game's artificial intelligence is impressive, both in and out of
combat. In combat, enemies are cunning when given enough room to move
around. Human enemies hunt you intelligently, using cover and the
terrain to their advantage. Meanwhile, creatures such as packs of
mutant dogs behave like you'd expect wild animals to. They attack when
they feel they have the advantage but flee if given a painful lesson.
It's this kind of behavior that makes the zone feel alive, with these
different factions and animals all trying to go about their daily
tasks. The AI does take a hit when placed in tight interiors, though,
as the lack of maneuvering options makes it turn a bit predictable, but
you'll likely appreciate this fact early in the game, as hiding inside
a building and picking off the grunts as they come through the doorway
is the only way that you'll survive some of the early battles.

There are all sorts of human characters in the game, from lone
stalkers out on their own to various factions that you can ally with or
battle. Then there are the mutants, from the strange animals that
inhabit the zone to the more deadly kind of mutated humanoid, such as
the little guy who can mess with your mind to the creepy crawling dudes
who lunge at you from out of nowhere. Toss in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s version
of zombies and poltergeists, and you've got a more-than-interesting
array of potential friends and foes. There are some large-scale battles
that will find you fighting alongside teammates, and afterward you'll
watch as AI friendlies saunter up to the wounded writhing on the
ground, say something nasty in Russian or Ukrainian, and then shoot
them in the head.

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