Nice little game but dont buy it.

User Rating: 5.6 | S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl PC
By BigTime102 | Review Date:
Immersive, atmospheric, I dont know what the story is about I cant be bothered to read the text, sorry If i have to TRY that hard its not entertainment, and last i checked I dont pay to work, i get paid. I honestly feel ripped off wasting my time reading through a ton of text just to be basically told to go to x and kill or retrieve y. That being said this game has some nice graphics, pretty impressive considering the size of the world, lots of detail, sure its not up to par with other games but other games wouldnt run at all if they had the size of a map like you see in this game. Graphics might not be great but it works, artistic touch is there.

Now the gameplay, sorry but if you like shooting things in games this game doesnt do a good job. From moving to shooting to impact its just wrong, my pistol feels like a pea shooter and when it hits something there isnt much going on. Sometimes theres isnt even any dust kicking up after you fired at something, seems like you didnt fire anything at all, and the AI dont even react to getting hit, I didnt know I was hittin them until they fell over. I have my settings maxed out btw so I dont think im missing out on any effects.. That just kills any enjoyment i have with shooting games, which is the pleasure i get from destroying things. Not good, so far the only thing that keeps me playing is the exploring and atmosphere. The game is too difficult, and I consider myself above average FPS palyer, ive won all kinds of tournaments from quake3-1 to duke3d and doom2,, FPS's are my speciality , but if I wanted a challenge i'd play against human opponents not cheating AI robots. I get absolutely 0 satisfaction from figuring out pre programmed AI but thats just me..

I wouldnt buy it, but right now theres nothing else in this genre so.....

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