STALKER: Clear Sky

Contributors: Jim Rossignol & Tim EdwardsSTALKER was remarkable in many ways, but it was far from the revolutionary freeform vision originally conjured for us. Now developer GSC is making a game a little closer to that original dream. Our second journey into the Chernobyl exclusion zone promises great things.As a prequel, Clear Sky will include a storyline which explains a little more about Strelok’s past, and how he ended up in the » Read Full STALKER: Clear Sky preview

Jan 15, 2008 Last years bravest game, STALKER, asked players to explore the area around the ruined Chernobyl reactor. Filled with physical and biological anomalies, it demanded players swallow their fear and go for long, lonely walks in the haunting countryside. Clear Sky is a prequel that offers similar low-beat thrills. Rather than focusing on a single storyline and channeling you down a linear path, in Clear Sky youre free to choose a faction (the original game let you choose missions from » Read Full STALKER: Clear Sky preview

Oct 10, 2007 We had to wait 70 gajillion years for the first Stalker game to come out, and now GSC are preparing another game for early next year. It's a prequel to the freeform Chernobyl-based shooter, giving you control of a Stalker mercenary active in the Zone a year before the original game. Clear Sky sprang into life at GSC as an expansion pack, but swelled like a radioactive polyp into a game in its own right, bringing territorial battles, four new zones, and some spectacular new engine » Read Full STALKER: Clear Sky preview

After a gestation period that could only be rivaled by the collective efforts of 15 pregnant elephants, GSC Game Worlds STALKER eventually became the most atmospheric and original shooter in recent years. A lovable rogue of a game with a fair few rough edges in presentation that belied some razor-sharp gunplay and genuinely unsettling wanders through the wilderness. And now, the Zone wants us back. Clear Sky kicks off a year before Shadow of Chernobyls amnesiac lead character, one Strelok, » Read Full STALKER: Clear Sky preview