This isn't really a review, but more of a mini/first impressions/review-just-so-that-I-dont-have-to-break-my-promise review. I actually havent played much of stalker, just the first few quests, and I havent yet gotten to the bigger towns. This is one of those games that is really hard to review. I don't
dislike it, but I don't really think that it is designed that well. It is merely ok. The problem is that for whatever reason the replay value is so low that I rarely feel like going into the game to play through the next part. Maybe it is the engine, being kind of old (the graphics are not exactly new) and that there is just no sun in the game at all. Seriously, the engine doesn't support a sun. The whole game is very dark and gloomy, with nice rain and storm effects. Maybe it is because I am spoiled from Oblivion where you get a really nice GUI and don't have to read everything the NPC's are saying. I can't pinpoint the problem, but it's there.
The greatest thing this game has given me in my opinion is the music playing on the radio at the start. You can see the radio in that first picture. That music... I have no idea what it is let alone what language it is in, but it is awesome. It truely fits the gloomy atmosphere of the game, and sometimes I just stick around in that room listening to the song play on infinite repeat while that guy changes his animations from time to time. Anyway, I am rambling. Basically, I do not feel like I can complete the game in the next... year, so I am putting this first impressions review out there just to forfill my promise, and to tell people about that music, lol... I wonder where I can get that in mp3...
Side note: I am not saying that the lighting engine is bad. Just look at the image above. The lighting there is amazing. Also note the (lame) weapon model there. I tried to install a mod to improve the weapon models, but it didn't work no matter what I tried. =(
This isn't really a review, but more of a mini/first impressions/review-just-so-that-I-dont-have-to-break-my-promise review. I actually havent played much of stalker, just the first few quests, and I havent yet gotten to the bigger towns. This is one of those games that is really hard to review. I don't dislike it, but I don't really think that it is designed that well. It is merely ok. The problem is that for whatever reason the replay value is so low that I rarely feel like going into the game to play through the next part. Maybe it is the engine, being kind of old (the graphics are not exactly new) and that there is just no sun in the game at all. Seriously, the engine doesn't support a sun. The whole game is very dark and gloomy, with nice rain and storm effects. Maybe it is because I am spoiled from Oblivion where you get a really nice GUI and don't have to read everything the NPC's are saying. I can't pinpoint the problem, but it's there. 
The greatest thing this game has given me in my opinion is the music playing on the radio at the start. You can see the radio in that first picture. That music... I have no idea what it is let alone what language it is in, but it is awesome. It truely fits the gloomy atmosphere of the game, and sometimes I just stick around in that room listening to the song play on infinite repeat while that guy changes his animations from time to time. Anyway, I am rambling. Basically, I do not feel like I can complete the game in the next... year, so I am putting this first impressions review out there just to forfill my promise, and to tell people about that music, lol... I wonder where I can get that in mp3...
Side note: I am not saying that the lighting engine is bad. Just look at the image above. The lighting there is amazing. Also note the (lame) weapon model there. I tried to install a mod to improve the weapon models, but it didn't work no matter what I tried. =(
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After a bit of reading, I realised that apperantly a lot of the people who played the game hated that music on the radio... lol. But if you like the STALKER soundtrack you can DL it at the STALKER main site.
*in .ogg format, of all things... I guess you could convert it
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