S.T.A.L.K.E.R. arrives on March 22nd

[o_deadly furby]

Much hyped game to finally see the light of day
By Theo Valich: Tuesday 16 January 2007, 18:26

Ever since NVIDIA launched GeForce3 - over half a decade ago - gaming magazines and on-line rags have been announcing STALKER, a game set in an alternative reality in which the Chernobyl disaster is "a bit different" to that recorded by history.

After the new Chernobyl explosion in 2006 (wasn't that last year? Oh wait, it was), a military zone has been set up preventing access to this area, and you find yourself inside the zone and become a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – basically, a scout for goods inside the zone.

Under the tag line "Man Made Hell", S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl is hitting the streets on March 22nd, 2007 or a little bit more than one year after this imagined explosion happened.

The game will offer yet-unseen changes between night and day, and some awesome weather effects. The graphics have been updated a bit, but this game looked more than awesome even back in 2001, so the Russian authors could have a potential hit of 2007 on their hands.

Luckily for us, we'll only need to wait until the first day after CeBIT to find out.

[Jiggles]

Yeah, the graphics looked great way back when it was announced, but after seeing some of the latest videos, I'm not that impressed. That being said, the gameplay could still rock...

[o_osiris]

Yeah I'm with Jiggles on that, I've never been all that impressed by what the game shows so far

[o_skanky butterpuss]

damn i remember busting a nut over this game a while back, when the alpha got leaked. i hope its ambitions come to fruition. oh damn, thats a sweet little rhyme there. imma get that shit copyrighted.

[o_docwolfe]

aye I saw some pictures of real-life next to ingame and it looked shocking... Crysis just blows it out of the water.

[o_fail]

Watch out guys, wear protection when you open the box. The vapor might be hot.

[o_twincannon]

As with the rest, I was impressed years ago, and then some E3 showing (either 1 or 2 years ago, forget which) it just looked terrible and I think the demo they ran had tons of bugs. meh, time will tell, as we know as gamers even the most hyped games can suck and usually the best games are stuff no one's ever heard of.

[o_nezumi]

...that said, stalker only has an internet cult-kinda following, mostly because it seemed like vaporware. It's not had a lot of commercial press that I know of.

In any case, the gameplay sounds awesome, the graphics still look very good (if not nut-bustin' good anymore) and aparently it's coming out before TF2 so you can't complain too much

[Decs]

I'll buy it.
Remember when it was first announced, its been a while so im not anticipating it as much as before but it seems like fun and still looks good.