This is a great game overall. The graphics look like poop compared to anything recent. Even when it was released it didn't look great. The physics are fun. You can keep blowing huge chunks of the wall away until you discover hidden ares and items. Rigging explosives on bridges and waiting for enemies to cross was one of my favorite parts. The final boss battle is epic. It took me a few tries to even beat it. Once you do beat the game you can go on to the multiplayer part of the game, which is pretty good even now. You can collapse sections of the level on your enemies for kills, and the weapons are fairly balanced. Overall and awesome game with decent replayability. Lots of crazy antics to get into when you're bored. The enemies are halfway between frustrating as hell, and mildly retarded, and bosses are somewhat challenging. This game is well worth the money in my opinion.
This game goes into the same area as the first. As others have stated it reuses some of the same assets, most of them in fact. I liked the idea of being able to play the factions against each other, or siding with one exclusively. You get to see a little more of the zone than in the first game, but not much. There are just as many interesting interactions as the first game, but because most of the NPC's are reused it seems kind of stale. The replay value isn't as high as the first game, but it's still worth going through more than once to see how you can interact with certain factions in different ways. Altogether it's a pretty solid game, 90% of the bugs were fixed with patches, but some of them are still there. A solid addition to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise.
