Vidya Games: S.T.A.L.K.E.R

One of my favorite gaming series that I recently stumbled upon is this Ukrainian beauty known as S.T.A.L.K.E.R

Scavenger

Trespasser

Adventurer

Loner

Killer

Explorer

Robber

Check out that sweet acronym, yeah that's what it really stands for, pretty deep yo.

But true, you pretty much do all of those things in the game world constantly, survive the harsh wastelands near Chernobyl, and the town Pripyat and just deal with that whole nasty area.

Scary thing is it's loosely based on real events.

The disaster occurred on 26 April 1986, reactor number 4 in the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant in Ukraine

which was near the Town of Pripyat which was a little town for all the factory workers families to live happily and do there business, up untill shit went down and the entire town had to be evacuated, literally an entire city.

Deserted as fuck

So with all this shit going down nobody is allowed back in the fence it off real quick like and declared it a Zone of Alienation, after a couple of years some people get interested in the place and want to go back in and check out a frozen in time town, and the best way to do that is hire the use of a guide who can get in and out and has the right equipment (Geiger counter, night vision goggles, etc.) and the right survival skills, these people are commonly known as Stalkers.

There was a book or two and even a film adapdation loosely based off of one of these books and stalking and stuff, a bit overdramatized, but cool none-the-less.

Now that the history lesson is over you known what this game is up too, you are a stalker, basically trying to survive inside the zone of alienation, you kill mutants, you look for food, you do jobs for other stalkers, and see some crazy shit along the way.

Like this, pretty damn terrifying.

In the above picture is a regular occurance in-game, it's called a blowout and is pretty damn scary, you'll be minding your own business raiding a small abandonded building, then all of a sudden you'll be given an update that you need to find shelter now.

Becasue if you don't the above picture is what's going to happen to you, a little map marker pops up, you better get inside of it real lickety split or your world is going to become a nuclear hellish nightmare. (Aka game over)

There's all kinds of interesting things to see and do in this game, lots of weapon customization if you're playing call of pripyat, and tons and tons of treasure hunting to do, it runs for $30 on steam and in my opinion is well worth it, if you own any other stalker games then you get a nice discount on it.

Check it out sometime, it's worth it for some spooky stuff and that great isolating feeling we all yearn for...