lonewolfxix
08-05-2007, 09:16 AM
Expansion pack covers event a year before the main game
The story of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky brings the players one year prior to the events of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game in 2011.
I think it best if we let this info kit from GSC Game World do the talking:
A group of stalkers has for the first time reached the very heart of the Zone – Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and brings about a cataclysm on the brink of a catastrophe. An immense blowout of anomalous energy changes the Zone. There are no more reliable and relatively safe roads. The entire areas vanish in the outbursts of anomalies. Stalkers and even expeditions die or end up sealed in the lost territories. New areas, which remained unknown since the time of the Zone emergence, appear on the Zone map. The Zone continues to shake with blowouts. The Zone is unstable. The anomalous activity is at its maximum.
Changes of the Zone map known to stalkers shake the fragile balance of forces in the Zone. Among the groupings, there flare up hostilities for the new territories, artifact fields and spheres of influence. There are no more old enemies or friends – now everyone is for himself. The Factions War has started between the groupings.
The protagonist is a mercenary who appeared at the edge of the opposition between stalker factions, Strelok and even the Zone itself. The main character will have to play the key role in the events, which led to creation of the Zone up to the point from which the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game begins.
What’s waiting for stalkers in the opened depths of the Zone? Which new challenges bear in the new territories? Why blowouts continue shaking the Zone? Why did the Zone change? How to remove its instability? Which faction will take the upper hand in the factions war? Why did Strelok end up in the death truck? What happened to Strelok prior to that? Was there any other choice to make? These and many other questions will get answered in the official prequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky.
So there you have it... a whole new set of levels designed to bring a bit of clarity and answer some of the questions raised in the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R.. But what are you going to see in the expansion, set for release in early 2008?
For a start you’ll be able to research and explore new areas of the Zone – Red Forest, Limansk, Pripyat Undergrounds and more. The A-Life-driven Factions War has been enhanced and now it’s possibleto play and lead any faction to victory. In fact, the whole A-Life system has had an overhaul to give much more varied behaviour of NPC stalkers in the A-Life world with improved AI of computer-controlled characters.
This is a key point of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky pack with AI now skirting around dynamic obstacles by NPCs and able to do far more such as use grenades. Travel, a big bugbear of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has been improved to be much faster and the concept of detectors, artifacts and anomalies have all been given a revamp.
There’s a new system of upgrades for weapons and armour and also of weapons and armour repair. The interface has had some work done too to give you a better HUD and PDA.
And if that little lot weren’t enough, the entire game is running on the new X-Ray 1.5 game engine which adds in a DirectX 10 renderer, improved DirectX 9 renderer with parallax bump, soft particles, depth of field, motion blur, eye adaptation effect. And even then you’ve still got inverse kinematics (whatever the hell they are) and a new animation engine to look forward to.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky will be out on PC sometime in early 2008.
For pictures and the real article visit Hexus.
Hexus.gaming S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky First Look (http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=9492)
So I have the first one and thought it was a pretty amazing game but never really completed it (too many updates etc. and I wanted to drive the cars lol) but from what I played it was pretty cool, I can't wait for this one to come out!
The story of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky brings the players one year prior to the events of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game in 2011.
I think it best if we let this info kit from GSC Game World do the talking:
A group of stalkers has for the first time reached the very heart of the Zone – Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and brings about a cataclysm on the brink of a catastrophe. An immense blowout of anomalous energy changes the Zone. There are no more reliable and relatively safe roads. The entire areas vanish in the outbursts of anomalies. Stalkers and even expeditions die or end up sealed in the lost territories. New areas, which remained unknown since the time of the Zone emergence, appear on the Zone map. The Zone continues to shake with blowouts. The Zone is unstable. The anomalous activity is at its maximum.
Changes of the Zone map known to stalkers shake the fragile balance of forces in the Zone. Among the groupings, there flare up hostilities for the new territories, artifact fields and spheres of influence. There are no more old enemies or friends – now everyone is for himself. The Factions War has started between the groupings.
The protagonist is a mercenary who appeared at the edge of the opposition between stalker factions, Strelok and even the Zone itself. The main character will have to play the key role in the events, which led to creation of the Zone up to the point from which the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game begins.
What’s waiting for stalkers in the opened depths of the Zone? Which new challenges bear in the new territories? Why blowouts continue shaking the Zone? Why did the Zone change? How to remove its instability? Which faction will take the upper hand in the factions war? Why did Strelok end up in the death truck? What happened to Strelok prior to that? Was there any other choice to make? These and many other questions will get answered in the official prequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky.
So there you have it... a whole new set of levels designed to bring a bit of clarity and answer some of the questions raised in the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R.. But what are you going to see in the expansion, set for release in early 2008?
For a start you’ll be able to research and explore new areas of the Zone – Red Forest, Limansk, Pripyat Undergrounds and more. The A-Life-driven Factions War has been enhanced and now it’s possibleto play and lead any faction to victory. In fact, the whole A-Life system has had an overhaul to give much more varied behaviour of NPC stalkers in the A-Life world with improved AI of computer-controlled characters.
This is a key point of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky pack with AI now skirting around dynamic obstacles by NPCs and able to do far more such as use grenades. Travel, a big bugbear of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has been improved to be much faster and the concept of detectors, artifacts and anomalies have all been given a revamp.
There’s a new system of upgrades for weapons and armour and also of weapons and armour repair. The interface has had some work done too to give you a better HUD and PDA.
And if that little lot weren’t enough, the entire game is running on the new X-Ray 1.5 game engine which adds in a DirectX 10 renderer, improved DirectX 9 renderer with parallax bump, soft particles, depth of field, motion blur, eye adaptation effect. And even then you’ve still got inverse kinematics (whatever the hell they are) and a new animation engine to look forward to.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky will be out on PC sometime in early 2008.
For pictures and the real article visit Hexus.
Hexus.gaming S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky First Look (http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=9492)
So I have the first one and thought it was a pretty amazing game but never really completed it (too many updates etc. and I wanted to drive the cars lol) but from what I played it was pretty cool, I can't wait for this one to come out!