- Publisher: THQ
- Release Date: Mar 20, 2007

- Summary:
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- Developer: GSC Game World
- Genre(s): Action, Shooter, Shooter, First-Person, Sci-Fi, Sci-Fi, Arcade
- # of players: Online Multiplayer
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 37 out of 44
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Mixed: 7 out of 44
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Negative: 0 out of 44
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PC FormatBroken. Absolutely and utterly broken. Not the game, oh no, it's my fragile nerves that have been shattered. Adrenalin is still coursing through my veins as I type, and what's more, I absolutely love it. STALKER is a thoroughly affecting game, and it's got me by the short hairs. [Apr 2007, p.56]
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AceGamezI loved every single challenging, compelling, atmosphere-laden moment of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. It's just so different from everything else that's out there.
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From its alternate reality setting and realistic gun mechanics to its trading system and action horror formula, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is radioactive rareness.
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By itself, the game is a fascinating achievement, even if you trip over technical cracks more than you should.
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The game's "exclusion zone" setting, a no-man's-land roughly 30 square kilometers surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, is very much "Mad Maxim": post-Soviet road warriors just beyond the containment dome. Bleak as the end of the world (or at least life as we know it), it's an invention as gorgeous as years-old graphics overhauled for a late launch get.
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The clunky interface, numerous bugs, fractured story telling and underdeveloped ideas do distract from what could well have been a real classic, but the fact that GSC have come through development hell to produce a game as memorable as this is quite an achievement.
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Flaws abound in the game.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 274 out of 386
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Mixed: 58 out of 386
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Negative: 54 out of 386
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Jun 4, 2022The stalker game series is 10/10. The grimness of the world is way out there. I totally loved the pacing and the atmosphere.
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EricR.Sep 6, 2007
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B.O.S.Kuro-chanMar 27, 2007
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