S.T.A.L.K.E.R is G.O.L.D

[MJ]

Rejoice

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6166678.ht ... ws;title;1

[skdr]

Okay so... now get me Duke Nukem Forever and my life is complete.

[FMPONE]

hold on tight to your optimism hats here comes the dissapointment train

please god

[Furyo]

I'm sure it can't be as bad as RE 4 on PC. yet again, one never knows

[insta]

Hooray! Let's all prepare to have our hearts broken, so that we might be pleasantly surprised if it doesn't suck.

[Buddy]

There arleady was a review of it in polish magazine.

SPOILER

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It's definatly not mistake of the year, might be one of best titles of 2007.

+Fascinating World

+Interesting Storyline

+Lots of guns (in the review you can read that they have really good balance)

+Unlimited amount of missions/quests

+7 diferent endings

-Difficulty level (Enemies are too strong in their opinion)

-No Vehicles. (It's the worst point of the game according to the review becuase You have to traverse insanly long distances on foot, you can sprint but stamina recharges only when you're standing still, so no point of using it at some point. They removed vehicles because there was no possibility to avoid anomalies when driving at high speed [ however I see many ways to get rid of issue, -remove anomalies from main roads, or get some anomalie detectors to buy for vehicles but it seems GSC didnt' thought about it]).

They played it on PIV 1Gb 7900 and it run very well @ high, x-ray (game engine is very scalable since you can run it basiclly on gf3 machine and it will be still playable (in dx8 mode).

You can interact with other stalkers, trade, sneak, basiclly You can do most of things they announced years ago.

MP mode is pretty basic, 3 modes, DM, TDM and Artifact Hunt (CTF).

Visuals are stunning, don't have to tell this to those who played recently released official MP Closed Beta, basiclly everything you might expect from dx9 powered game, parralax, normal, hdr, bloom, GI, 1 000 000 tris per frame (thanks to deferred shading), EVERY objects casts dynamic softshadows (especially good looking during the storm or when using flashlight).

The final rating was 8/10.

Note: The version they played was not 100% finished however THQ pushed GSC with release and they will propably fix few aspects of game via patches after release.

[dux]

Sweeeeeeeeeeet.

[mjens]

There arleady was a review of it in polish magazine

This review is in CDAction? Maybe I will check it

[insta]

Check out the preview at Shacknews as well, seems very promising.

http://www.shacknews.com/extras/2007/03 ... review_1.x

[Rick_D]

shit view model fov - fucks sake I can't believe nobody noticed how fucking awful that looks.

Idiots.

[Dodger]

is there any level editor for stalker out?

only four weapons available for the game? I'm dissapointed now at GSC Game World

[Buddy]

is there any level editor for stalker out?

only four weapons available for the game? I'm dissapointed now at GSC Game World

There's lots of guns in the game 20-30 afaik.

GSC didn't said anything about SDK release plans yet.

Seir, yeah CDAction.

[D3ads]

Excellent

[Section_Ei8ht]

I just had a nerdgasm.

[st0lve]

I go away for a few days and Stalker is gold. What a beautiful world.