Reviews - Ikarooz

In a nutshell: it's a sandbox stalker game, you make your own adventure. You choose your faction, get dropped into the zone and do whatever you want. You may activate the main story before you start but that only includes "shut down brain washer, radar and find the wish granter", so if you're looking for mod full of stories and cutscenes, this isn't it.

But if you've ever dreamed of "what if I was dropped into the zone?", this is your mod. You tell your own story. You ramble around and discover different areas, accept some jobs or missions and upgrade your gear so you can dig further into the zone. I can recommend installing some graphic enhancing mods for this to pump up the experience.

What I really, really LOVE about this mod is how well polished the code is. Saving and Loading is super fast and the game almost never crashes, the overall performance is top!

It hurts me to give this a 3. There's a lot of hard work and love in this mod: tons of cutscenes, voiceovers, a lLOT of new content, blowouts, cars, etc etc

Sadly the mod is buggy as hell.
- Almost every second time I load a game, it crashed, which means that there's a 50:50 chance that I have to restart the game after I die.
- The pathfinding of the enemies is mostly ****** up, I often kill enemies, especially way overpowered bloodsuckers simply because they run in circles, which makes it easy for me to shoot them (happens a lot in tight places as laboratories etc)
- a lot of missions are just running missions: run to a lab, find some stuff, run back to quest dude, just to then run BACK into the lab, then BACK to the quest dude and then there's still a chance that you have to run BACK to that place a third time. I know that you can use cars lateron, but 1. you don't have a car at the beginning of the game 2. you mostly drive into some anomalies with your car (which can easily kill you) which makes it only useful for paths that you know by heart
3. you can't drive anywhere, or at least not smoothly
- the mission where you have to find streloks drive and streloks key is upright ridiculous, there is no way to find that god damned key without looking at a walkthrough, otherwise you spend hours running around in that base, which I did
- the last straw for me was the quest with the psy helmet: the professor never gave me one. This would have forced me to back to a savestate and loose at least 6+ hours of the game just to try it again and mayybee get a helmet that time.

I played ver 1.4002 and instead of getting a lovely stalker experience (which I craved for a longer time now), I get this. I wouldn't have minded some of those complications, I can even handle the voice acting of close-to-death scientists saying "oh no what have I done I don't want to die." as if they were casually reading a newspaper, but this huge bugfest, peaking in an unbeatable main mission, is just unbearable.

Next time please, please just cut away some content and instead use that time for bug tracking, testing and polishing.

I feel sorry for the devs, but I also feel sorry for myself for playing this.

Just finished the mod. Brilliant storytelling, great characters, cool missions and beautiful landscapes.

One big minus point from my side is that it crashed a lot, more than Fallout3+4 combined, in other words: Really damn often.

Nevertheless, it deserves a 10, special kudos to the voiceacting and the writing, I wish more developers would have the courage to make such believable characters. Haven´t seen a video game yet where people where casually talking about sex and life itself, or enemies actually swearing at me. That´s fresh, new and feels very believable.

Would give 10/10 if I was allowed to, but as a new user, I can give a max amount of 8 points ;P

I remember having a 7 day long holiday and I wanted to give this mod a try. What started with a simple "yeh, let´s try that mod" turned into a whole week spent in the world of STALKER. I literally got sucked into this game.

the weather system!
the landscape!
the lively surroundings
the realism and the overall moody world

I still have all the videos I recorded back then from my trip, I should really put them into one big video and upload it one day.

Oooh the adventures I had...this mod is definetly a MUST TRY for everyone who has played STALKER or is in general into post-apocalyptic games.

Wow.

It is pretty hard at the beginning when you´re still unexperienced and on a low level, but if you can make it through that hard start, you´ll get a game you won´t find anywhere else. Wow, just wow.

3 1/2 years in it and still can´t get away :D

- great developers (regular updates and bugfixes, strong connection to community)
- great community
- great gameplay

It´s a must try! :D