Full concept MODIFICATION of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat that touches every game aspect including textures, sfx, music, weapons, A.I., items, weather, mutants, difficulty and much much more!
While my rating might indicate otherwise; this is the best damn mod for CoP right now.
Graphically, it is near perfection.
Textures are downright beautiful and highly detailed without being ridiculously high resolution, and all the tweaks of Atmosfear and other values render Call of Pripyat the way I always dreamed of.
Though some some new models and animations are a bit sub-par and thus breaks a little immersion, watching the first blowout from a window on Skadowsk instantly made it to my toplist of beautiful moments in any game.
But here comes the big one - gameplay.
Personally, I love it and hate it, in equal amounts.
Being sent into the zone with second to nothing, and having to scrape up anything you find to survive is incredibly fun and challenging in my opinion, food is now a necessity if you want to get where you want fast, and drugs/medical supplies are scarce but their effects are neatly balanced to make up for that.
I love how finding a medkit no longer means that all your wounds from that boar are suddenly gone, but instead you're now just a little less crippled, and how it means that you might only make it a couple of extra meters before you're mutilated horribly again.
But there's an incredibly fine line to walk here, and balancing CoP on that line is a lot like teaching an elephant top level gymnastics.
At first, the stamina balancing was immersive, and realistic, but after a while, I felt less and less for it, and started chugging energy drinks all the time, which is hardly realistic.
If it was more dependant on your encumberance, it could tolerate it decreasing at the current rate while jogging, but right now it's killing part of the fun for me, no matter the intention.
Apart from my (somewhat) "noobish" complaints on realism/fun balancing, the rest of the mod is flawless; guns and damage are perfectly damaged, enemies and friendlies less predictable.
In conclusion, thank you for the mod, and **** you for messing up my future grades.