Reviews - St0yk

Overall really nice experience with minor drawbacks.
Huge amounts of work went into this and it payed off. The quality is very high. Definitly would recommend it. Even to players who dont know about the stalker franchise.

just finished the directors cut and was very well entertained

It's so amazin what has been done with the underlying engine here.
The atmosphere was pretty dense and immersive.
Even thou some moments to catch your breath woulkd have been really good.
That goes especally for the music. I was thinking about the old Resident Evil games where you had that "calm down" music after entering a safe room.
Speaking of the sound design.. its really nice. Always keeping the tension up and keeping you on your toes.

What probably bothered me the most was too fight my way throu the first half of the game with crappy stuff that i somehow gathered together and always beeing on the edge of beeing over encumbered. And then going in the second half when i actually was always over encumbered and throwing away stuff all 15 min(ish) cuz i didnt know what was worth carrying till the end of the game.

The item selection by itself was rather good, but the game would really profit of some minor balancing tweaks. But i think that these are issues a second playthrough would definitly make obsolete.

Overall a really nice experience and very impressive work.