Btanches of S.TA.LK.E.R.'i family tree trace back ...

2007-10-13T06:29:00.000-07:00

Btanches of S.TA.LK.E.R.'i family tree trace back to Austin. Texas and Deus Ex developer lon Storm, but others, those involvıng the vvay it looks, seem Ukraine-natİve. The game's "exclu-sion zone" setting. a no-man's-land roughly 30 square kilometers surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, is very much Mad Maxim: post-Soviet road watrİors just beyond the contain-ment dome. Bleak as the end of the wor!d {or at least life as we know it), it's an inventton as goıgeous as yeats-old graphics overhauled for a late launch get. Wet squalls and lightning and ripping vvinds roll through. irradiated vvolves track boar through the brush, and everywhere, these weird eleetromagnetic disturbances shiver and hum and distort space.
What's most unusual. and perhaps most unique to GSC Game VVorld's direetion, is the degree of delail favished on locations that not every ptayer will visit For instance, l'm finish-ing the game (again), angting for alternate endings {seven in ali). I know vvhere I've got to go. Instead, I decide to see if those tenements över there are hollow or if they have interiors, and it turns out that they do; block after block. basement to upper baleony, teeming with reat estate to exp!ore and treasure seekers to kili. Thİs, under boiling-point pressureand in the elosing chapter.
Far away from even voluntary objeetives, you'll find vandalized factories and vvoody. overgrown villages, every girder and path of planks traversable and rendered down to the rust. İn a Holf-Life, these set the stage for cli-mactic moments; here. in this much-removed "zone of alienation," they're home to loner gui-tarists and feral dogs.
These days. Americans just don't design shooters this way

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Btanches of S.TA.LK.E.R.'i family tree trace back ...