Call of Pripyat takes you once again into the vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor that exploded in 1986. This so-called "Zone" is a highly contaminated area cordoned off by the military and now is combed through by the so-called stalkers, modern fortune hunters, in search of unique artifacts. In the role of Agent Alexander Degtyarev, who is dressed up as stalker, you have to investigate the mysterious disappearance of five military helicopters and thereby stand one’s ground against the various stalker groups.
So, PLUSES
1. Absolutely new levels.
2. Some places to see on the levels.
3. Nice quests, except main story.
4. Sometimes atmosphere is nice (ventilation complex's underground).
5. New feautures.
6. Nice graphics, but looking like cartoon on full DX11 settings o_O
Minuses:
1. Visible from first minutes of gameplay: there is no Atmosphere. There is no little details - there is no more things than you can see first time. No re-exploration, no good ambient music and sounds.
2. Stupid weapons balance. It's too hard to kill someone and hard to die.
3. Totally boring when all quests are done.
4. Boring on first minutes of gameplay - it's hard to find something interesting, but when you will find...
5. Levels are too large and detalisation is low. (I'm about stuff and amount of props, NPCs).
6. Only 5 levels vs. SoC's 18!
7. Works badly on not so good PCs.
8. Bad "feeling of weapons in arms" - like in Metro 2033.
Pretty "invisible" bad things:
Some cutted Engine feautures such as cars support.
P.S.: 60% of those minuses will became visible when you will done game 1-2 times :D
Edit: this is "like" True Stalker, but SoC is closer to True Stalker anyway. This game made some good things, i love it.