But the franchise' inspirations were created 20-30 years before the development of the first game started, in the early '00, and was finally finished in 2007. Like the alien visitation in the novel, which is nowhere to be found in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

To be precise I'm talking about the Roadside Picnic novel, written by the Strugatsky Brothers, and the movie based on it, simply titled Stalker, from Anderi Tarkovsky both from which come the artifacts, anomalies and the mysterious Zone that contains them. games are based on Soviet Russia literature and film. Much of the background history of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Which helps a lot to give these games a very strong sense of a real place. The games are set in Pripyat and its surrounding area – a time capsule of Soviet era communist architecture, which are recreated to a striking degree of accuracy. While its mechanics can be traced to other open world titles like Far Cry and Fallout, its themes are a bit harder to identify. All of it supported by one of the most advanced AIs in gaming, A-Life, with its simulation of every creature you see in the game - their habits and needs, which makes the Zone a truly living and breathing world.

Its story encapsulates everyday villains and heroes put against each other and sci-fi monsters, anomalies and artifacts, while Soviet era conspiracies about mass brainwashing and the Chernobyl disaster from 1986 serve as a backstage. Comprised of 3 games (eat your heart out HL) that have horror, survival and RPG elements wrapped in an open world FPS. It's developed by GSC Game World, based in Ukraine, also responsible for the Cossacks series. Orientation.Įverything about and around the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and the Legacy of the Franchiseįebru15 Comments A perfect picturesque representation of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

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