First game bought on GOG and my first review. I had it for a while in my wishlist, so when I saw the discount I grabbed it without hesitation. I need to mention that I played and finished STALKER SOC and COP some 10 years ago (Clear Sky had a lot of bugs at that time and couldn't play it). I wanted to see if the game can hold my attention again in the year 2020 or if it was nostalgia that dictated me to buy it again. Short answer? YES ! I still think STALKER is one of the best FPS out there together with Half Life, Bioshock, Fear, Metro, Dishonored and so on. After 39 hours of gameplay, with all the quests and side quests done, traversing the map back and forward and I still couldn't get enough of the atmosphere in this game. Is that phenomenal. Yes, there are a few weak moments in the story, the gunplay is ok at best, the graphics are somewhat outdated, but at the end I didn't care. Really had a sense of accomplishment finishing this. A few things I want to mention. The FOV bugged me for a while so I installed a little mod (fov_switcher) and changed it to 75; default was 55. Other than that I had no problems with the game. I had no crashes whatsoever, encountered just a little bug (the door in Scientists' Bunker/Jupiter). But I loaded a quicksave and it was gone. Conclusions? I strongly recommend you play this game ! Now get out of here Stalker ! PS. The modding community is really active and there are tons of great mods out there, if you still want to play STALKER after your first experience in vanilla. Just to name a few: Anomaly (didn't really like it, maybe others will), Misery (not fond of it, but is pretty popular), Gunslinger + Absolute Nature 4 (probably best gun mod out there, still in development, huge potential), Call of Chernobyl Back to the Roots (fantastic freeplay mod), Valley of Whispers (short cool story mod).
