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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 ...
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.
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.
GSC Game World hopes to release Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl next year.
[10] [60] In May 2015, the company announced Cossacks 3, a remake of the first Cossacks game, including "all its original gameplay". [7] [61] The game was released on 20 September 2016 on Steam, after which, the game was finalized and updated. [62] [63] On 15 May 2018, GSC re-announced S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.
Family Computer Disk System, Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayChoice-10, Commodore 64, Amiga, MS-DOS, Windows, Game Boy Advance, AT&T Wireless mMode Network, Virtual Console 1986-09-26 [ 14 ]
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. [3] [4]
9/10 [14] Call of Pripyat received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic . [ 4 ] The game was lauded for its well optimized engine with relatively few bugs and glitches, for example, GameSpot said, "The most stable S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game yet also happens to be the most atmospheric and compelling."