This game is a great survival FPS. Good mechanics, a nice range of weapons easily modifiable, and good difficulty that isn't too excessive. That's the short. Now for the long.

The long is that S.T.AL.K.E.R. is a great survival FPS renown for it's excellent portrayal of The Zone, a post-Chernobyl irradiated anomaly in Ukraine that is growing day by day expanding it's influence and luring treasure hunters guns-for-hire and thieves all to it's landscape for either massive wealth or their inevitable doom. Some of you might think, "but Wille, this has been done before. Why is this any different?" It isn't but it's done right and that's the key difference. A lot of survival games might thrust you into an area you know all of nothing about. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. doesn't do this. Your character is given plenty of dialogue with other characters as they slowly establish this large world around you from the starting area outwards. It's done like this in all of the series' titles and that is easily their best feature. Where they don't excel in graphics they do excel in amazing story and worldbuilding among other things, and the graphics are more than passable.

On to gunplay and mechanics. It's a survival game so you have your standard fare here. Heavy-hitting high recoil weapons that shred mooks and shred you if you're naked along with the typical things like hunger, radiation and the ability to bleed. Bleeding is easily stopped with twenty plasters applied on the wound whether it's a shot from a 9 mil or a crater-making blast from an anti-materiel rifle. This works to the game's benefit as it is a survival game but it also doesn't have to be overly difficult to be one. Many survival games think survival is ball-busting fun-stifling monsters teabagging your corpse death after death before you can even reach the level one safe zone. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has always given you time to prepare where other games wouldn't. For this reason alone it could get my reccomendation it could look Minecraft bad and with mechanics like this I'd still love it over anything any day of the week.

Not much more can be said. The flaws could be focused on but there aren't many. Buy the game and play it.

Pros:
- Excellent world spanning 3 games
- Satisfying gunplay that rewards patience and skill, without being too difficult for those lacking such things
- Mechanics that don't suck
- A wide variety of weapons and armors. The armors scale as the game goes on, but weapons are totally preference.
Cons:
- Graphics can be ass.

This game is a great survival FPS. Good mechanics, a nice range of weapons easily modifiable, and good difficulty that isn't too excessive. That's the short. Now for the long. The long is that S.T.AL.K.E.R. is a great survival FPS renown for it's excellent portrayal of The Zone, a post-Chernobyl irradiated anomaly in Ukraine that is growing day by day expanding it's influence and luring treasure hunters guns-for-hire and thieves all to it's landscape for either massive wealth or their inevitable doom. Some of you might think, "but Wille, this has been done before. Why is this any different?" It isn't but it's done right and that's the key difference. A lot of survival games might thrust you into an area you know all of nothing about. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. doesn't do this. Your character is given plenty of dialogue with other characters as they slowly establish this large world around you from the starting area outwards. It's done like this in all of the series' titles and that is easily their best feature. Where they don't excel in graphics they do excel in amazing story and worldbuilding among other things, and the graphics are more than passable. On to gunplay and mechanics. It's a survival game so you have your standard fare here. Heavy-hitting high recoil weapons that shred mooks and shred you if you're naked along with the typical things like hunger, radiation and the ability to bleed. Bleeding is easily stopped with twenty plasters applied on the wound whether it's a shot from a 9 mil or a crater-making blast from an anti-materiel rifle. This works to the game's benefit as it is a survival game but it also doesn't have to be overly difficult to be one. Many survival games think survival is ball-busting fun-stifling monsters teabagging your corpse death after death before you can even reach the level one safe zone. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has always given you time to prepare where other games wouldn't. For this reason alone it could get my reccomendation it could look Minecraft bad and with mechanics like this I'd still love it over anything any day of the week. Not much more can be said. The flaws could be focused on but there aren't many. Buy the game and play it. Pros: - Excellent world spanning 3 games - Satisfying gunplay that rewards patience and skill, without being too difficult for those lacking such things - Mechanics that don't suck - A wide variety of weapons and armors. The armors scale as the game goes on, but weapons are totally preference. Cons: - Graphics can be ass.