as for the questions TC asked:
no STALKER is not really a horror game (none of them) but they can be quite tense, stressful, and have a few "scary parts" They are amazing fps games, and despite it somehow old feel to them, it feels really great weaponwise (weapons feels like they have weight, and punch behind them).
There are ofcourse places and times where an adventurer should not go, like at night "mutants" roam in the night in CoP (mostly dogs and freakin big catlike creatures) But you wont be facing off macabre or insanely scary creatures, alot of atmospheric and spooky ones tho ;)
In CoP one of the places that were most ofputting for me, was when I was in The abandoned school, the game is really wellmade, and converys emotion far meyond what the screenshots do.How the school looked so deserted, and everything looked so dead, just silence and the omnious pleeping of the anomalty warning system.
CoP is the most "relaxing" of the series, you have a say in who is your enemies, and to fight (often) and if you want you can go for a long time without having to pull the trigger. Ironicly it also have some of the more hectic firefights, so when the sh*t hits the fan it is allout warzone...
I only felt a similar preassure of being so outnumbered and outperformed a few times in SoC, and it will happen a few times in CoP, the games biggest fears to me, is when the weapons begins to break down (if they get hit by another weapon), and how much ammo I have left in the middle of the firefight...
Nothing sucks more then needing those extra 10 bullets, you chose not to pack when you left the safty of the homebases.
Some people however find it very scary, I never quite understood why, maybe it is the fact that there are far more things that can kill you, then you are able to see with your eyes. And the knowlage that it is a game does not treat the player like a superhero, run out in the night, guns blazing, and the player will be but a vague memory to the rest of the zone.
That feeling of valnurability seems to be what makes people so edgey about the game, and also the reason quite a few people dislike it, the notion that the player is "just another actor" in a world that WILL kill you if you f*ck up too badly seems to be more then some people can take. (in short this aint no modern FPS game where the player is semi immortal, and the "star of the show". In these games all it comes down to is the equipment you gather, and the allys you make.
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