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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was initially announced in 2010, with a release date set in 2012, by Sergiy Grygorovych, CEO of GSC Game World, stating "After the official sales of the series exceeded 4 million copies worldwide, we had no doubts left to start creating a new big game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe. This will be the next chapter of the mega ...
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.
The engine's revamp has allowed for improved and increased performance on most systems. Version 1.5.03 of the game supports MSAA for DirectX 10, while version 1.5.06 added support for DirectX 10.1. In August 2014 the game's X-Ray Engine 1.5.10 source code became available on GitHub under a non- open-source license .
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 takes place soon after the events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.After Strelok disables the Brain Scorcher, multitudes of stalkers rush to the centre of the Zone, hoping to find rare artifacts and other rumoured treasures.
[2] The concept of OpenCritic was developed by a team led by Matthew Enthoven of Riot Games. The site was designed to make the nature of review aggregation clear, opting for a simple arithmetic mean, in contrast to the hidden weights used by Metacritic. The site also highlights review authors' names and allows users to customize what reviews ...
The PC-9801 was a Japanese home computer released by NEC in 1982 - and PC-9801 games started to be made available through Project EGG on November 24, 2001. There have been 307 PC-9801 titles available on Project EGG, 14 of which are no longer available for purchase:
This list of games for the TurboGrafx-16, known as the PC Engine outside North America, covers 678 commercial releases spanning the system's launch on October 10, 1987, until June 3, 1999. It is a home video game console created by NEC , released in Japan as the PC Engine in 1987 and North America as the TurboGrafx-16 in 1989.