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It was scheduled to release for Windows and Xbox Series X/S on 8 December 2022, but due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, development for the game was put on hold. Following multiple delays, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl was released on 20 November 2024. It received mixed reviews from critics and sold one million copies within two days ...
GSC Game World hopes to release Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl next year.
On 23 August 2023, the release date was pushed further to Q1 2024. On 16 January 2024, the release date was pushed back again, being announced as 5 September 2024, but was then delayed to 20 November 2024. [20] On October 31, 2024, the game collection S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy was released for the Nintendo Switch.
On 12 February 2008, 950 thousand copies in the CIS and 700 thousand copies elsewhere in the world were sold, which made S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl the most successful project of GSC Game World to date. [46] [11] The worldwide success of Shadow of Chernobyl pushed the company to develop its next project. [47]
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.
It was developed by GSC Game World and published by Deep Silver as a prequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. The player assumes the identity of Scar, a mercenary tasked with stopping a group of Stalkers from reaching the center of the Zone, a forbidden territory surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
It’s been five years since “Chernobyl,” HBO’s phenomenally successful miniseries about the catastrophic 1986 disaster and a show that garnered both widespread acclaim and a whole host of ...