Be awesome to finally see this game finished

User Rating: 2 | S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl PC
By Dreadfall | Review Date:
Oh goody a game called Stalker, all about the Chernobyl incident, I figured this would be the game to get. Not only is it not the game to get but I now don't think I'd watch a movie about it, if one was ever done. Loading up the game was one of the first things that made me wonder just what I'd gotten myself into. After the initial starting of the game and finally the load screen, I'd say 4 minutes has passed. The interface will give you an even better idea of how sloppily this game was designed. Now finally getting into the game, the graphics are really pretty well done, and then you start to realize how small the text is for the in-game characters chat. Completing missions is very odd for a FPS to me. Especially when you haven't quite finished completing the mission and the person you're speaking to, to complete the mission is talking, you can't heer them because of gunfire, and the scrolling text for you to read in case you didn't hear him goes by so fast you miss what he's saying there as well. Earning Rubels, the Russian currency for solving missions is completely pointless. You can loot the characters you kill, their bullets, bandages, food, weapons ETC. Novice difficulty is even almost beyond hard, and even then, the enemies seem to never miss you no matter where you run. Apparently their bullets can go right through walls and still hit you, but you aren't as fortunate to land your shots the same way. The weapons look like nothing really, they could have given you a twig and it'd probably look the same. The textures are bland and don't really give the game world much of a feel of environment. The world in some areas looks good for the area you're in, in other areas it could use some work. Almost all the enemies in the game look exactly the same, and when they die they all look like their weaing a joggers suit, the detail on the enemies is next to nothing. As soon as you kill 1 enemy, you had better save the game, cause usually you're bombarded by about 5 guys and you will not survive. 1 guy can kill you in about 3 hits, you try using your shotgun even and you're looking at 5 shots before he falls down. I'm not totally sure if this game was fully tested before it was released, it looks like a rush job, even with all the patches. I followed the progress of this game for years and thought it was going to be so much better than it was, what a dissappointment. THQ should stick to RPG'S like how they did Titan Quest, and mayvbe get some advice on how to properly make a FPS, this game is unplayable.

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