S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $29.08

Features:

• Atmosphere of the Exclusion Zone
• Research of new depths of the Zone - Red Forest, Limansk, Pripyat Undergrounds, etc
• A-Life-driven War of the Factions
• Possibility to play and lead any faction to victory
• Advanced A-Life system

Customer Reviews:

This Could have been a great game [Posted on 2008-09-23]
S.T.A.L.K.E.R:Clear Sky Could have been a great game. The reason I thought it was only a OK game was because it was very demanding on my system, it was full of bugs. The Game crashes alot. I lost all my saved games after patching the game. I am not going to remove it from my sysmtem yet. I hope CGS and THQ fix this game, then i'll give it another
try.

Deep Silver is a joke. bring back THQ [Posted on 2008-09-30]
like a lot of the other reviews, i am a huge fan of the first Stalker. ive played through it more times than i care to admit and loved every second. a few glitches and on rare occasion a crash, but completely worth it.

Clear sky, however, is an absolute programming disaster. i have had to restart the game 6 times now because of game ending crashes. they come without warning, without explanation and worst of all, they happen again even if you reload, reboot, reinstall, or reupdate. it crashes either in the same place or shuts down the program a certain amount of time after you reload, like some sort of time bomb. one time it crashed whenever a certain unimportant NPC died, regardless of what area i was in. this is COMPLETELY unacceptable. how can a company release a game that you cant even finish? especially after 3 release date delays???
while it's running, its a great game and, in my opinion, just as fun as the original stalker game, if not more. but that's if you can keep it running. i built my own system and can run it at the highest settings and it looks incredible. the dynamic lighting is better than anything i've ever seen in a game.... for the five minutes that it stays up.
buy this game if you don't mind waiting until they release enough patches to work out the horrendous first round of programming that went into the game. like i said: if it stays up, it's a fantastic buy. if it does what it has done to me, you will want to tear your hair out and/or murder the people who gave this game the ok for release.

Shadow of original game [Posted on 2008-10-01]
I liked original game alot despite frequent crashes but new one is almost unplayable.you need to save every minute or you lose your progress.Game is so buggy that I can not understant how was it possible to send it to print,seem like russian revenge for lost cold war.Graphics are great but story line is weak and short,few quest I could not even complete are wortless before you realize it is all over.Another lousy attempt to rework existing files and bilk gamers extra $40,I am really disapointed.I have good machine e8600 4gb ddr3 and 4850 in crossfire and game looks very nice but left me with bad taste anyway.

Clear Sky a bit cloudy [Posted on 2008-10-06]
Again, a potentially great game made mediocre by appalling bugs and balancing issues. I am getting thoroughly fed up with developers shoving out games without proper beta testing. We know it can be done, so there's really no excuse. This game has been virtually unplayable for me even with patching, including a bug that prevents the game from being able to be completed, no matter what I try. You are continually jarred out of immersion in the game by bugs, AI inconsistancies and crashes that make the experience frustrating and simply not fun. I am now unlikely to purchase another title from these developers.

High expectations [Posted on 2008-10-07]
I loved the first STALKER so much I had to buy this one. The graphics are maginal at best because it uses DX-10 and I was hard pressed to see mych improvement over the others graphics. The weapon customization is an awsome addition an adds replayability. The story line is a twist because in the first one you are Strelock and in this one you are hunting him. The maps and graphic content is what put a drag on this game. Crysis, Farcry 2, and Call of Duty 4 kill this game in graphics quality. Also I felt like I was playing the first STALKER until I got to the Red Forest where the maps changed.

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