It's just bad, very much undercooked release in all aspects. This game came out 2 years after Halo CE, so it's not about it being old. It's just undercooked one, I've read that on consoles it's a bit better. But this on on PC is rough, rough to enjoy.
Top tier of 1st person shooters. Visually it's a bit outdated these days. But gameplay, still fresh and awesome.
Although visuals are old and looks dated in may aspects. The game play loop is pretty good. Not ideal as it's a bit janky plus camera control is weird. However you get a plenty, easy to do missions. With ability as you progress to learn more fighting styles or change a saber. Sadly campaign is a one way trip, keep your saves if you want to reply some missions. Otherwise there is no option to replay missions.
A unique approach to leading men. Overall it's fun with good idea and execution of being fully depended on getting radio reports from the field. Being forced to place markers on the map so that you know where is who, depending on reports. One thing that could use improvement is the area of allowing faster speed of speech. After a while, I've started hitting skip all the time. Not allowing speech to finish, since I was using text log to quickly get info than listening to speech to end. Felt kinda like cheating and killing immerison. But with listening to same text speech get stale. There is no difference in voice acting. As in nothing happening or being underfire the voice acting delivers identical calm speech.
Build a ship, gather resources, defend against spores and raiders. Overall a pretty good survival/rogue like game. Lots of to be desired as it looks like simple desing in many areas, however for what it does it's good.
Overall the setting, the vibe, the atmosphere is true to Stalker universe. Visuals are really, really good. But game is not fully ready. This is mainly seen with game's poor optimization and A-life 2.0 being no existent. Game requires a serius optimzation work. A-life is not there, enemy just spawns behind you ~50 meters away. You clear the area of some enemies, you start looting, the game spawns them again, you kill them and again game spawns them after a few minutes. Same as cops were in Cyberpunk 2077, you turn away and AI spawns behind you... If they continue working on the game, then optimization will be improved over the time. But for A-Life 2.0 part, it requires a serious work on it. AI seems like a placehoder here. As of writing this. The game is more raw than ready. Needs much more work.
A proper Stalker Sequel but at this time very poorly optimized with bugs, plenty of bugs.
Old but goodie. Only minus is that is somewhat unstable in Win11. Crash happens randomly. You could play 5 minutes and it CTD, Or you could be playing 5 hours and have a CTD, Save often.
I have been playing this game since it was released. With 2.0 update it really hits better. The visuals, the gameplay. Good stuff indeed. Still plenty of bugs but overall they are more tamed. It gives a unique experience, main story and characters are well done. Overall 4/5 game.
It's like a mix of Cyberpunk 2077 and Escape from NY (with Escape from LA settings). Story is alright, new gear is pretty dope. Finally there is a ski mask. New weapons very meh. I like it, i think because of that strong Escape from LA vibe.
