I was just curious how many people were impressed by S.T.A.L.K.E.R. now that it's finally released. First off, I'll just let it be known that I was NOT impressed by this game in the least. I played it for about 30 minutes and finally just unistalled it completely. Let me explain why.

GRAPHICS - My current computer is a P4 530, 2GB RAM @ 4-4-4-12, and a Saphirre x1950PRO 512MB card. After going through the STALKER tweak guide at TweakGuides.com I was more or less able to run the game maxed @ 1280x1024, but still I didn't think the game looked all that great compared to some of the other current FPS games out there right now.

GAMEPLAY - First off, I was floored that there was so little voice acting. The fact that you had to READ all the dialog when confronting another NPC was completely unbelieveable in this day and age. I felt like I was playing a game on the SNES or something. Too many side missions made me feel confused and made the game have a lack of focus. I plaed this game up until the first fight scene before I got rid of this piece of garbage. It made no sense to me why the NPC's in the squad wouldn't have given the player a gun to use in that first firefight. I thought the act of trying to hide until one of your squad buddies got killed and stealing his gun was retarded. And lastly, lets not forget the BULLETPROOF enemies. Even standing only a couple feet away and unloading a clip into one of the enemies didn't kill him but he fires off one shot and I'm dead. Go figure. What a crock.

STORY - Completely incoherent. 'Nuff said on that.

Except for the old NES/SNES RPG's like Zelda, The Illusion of Gaia, and a couple others, I've never really cared for RPG's. Like I read somewhere else, this game is simply an RPG that wants to be a FPS game but just doesn't quite cut it. To me it felt like a modern day Oblivion (which BTW was another game I think completely BLOWS). Had I known this game was 90% RPG and 10% wannabe FPS then I would have stayed away in the first place. I gve it a 1/10.

So tell me your opinions.