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And four other reasons why we're hot like a reactor for Stalker

Besides the military trying to perforate you, and the rampaging dogs, boars and pig-beasts trying to eat you, there's an even more deadly and imposing threat that haunts Stalker's world. The damage wreaked by Chernobyl's second nuclear incident has left the surrounding area teeming with Anomalies, lethal pockets of irradiated bizarreness with appealing names like 'burner', 'electro' and "vortex." We saw two packs of beasts fighting out in the Zone, and every now and then there was a silent, fizzing explosion as a landmine-like vortex zapped their victim with a killer dose of radiation. Then there's the tunnel out of the first zone, which randomly crashes with lightning - get caught when it goes off, and it's grilled Stalker time.

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Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.