Reviews - ProfMajkowski

This mod is something else. I'm only a few hours in, but I'm already blown away. To be completely honest, I was already really impressed in the main menu before I even started a new game. The menu and loading screen designs are fantastic, including the satisfying sound effects that accompany you while you navigate the menu.
But to talk about gameplay itself, I really love how this mod is everything that the original STALKER games were, but at the same time it has its own identity and builds upon the foundation that GSC has laid without being bloated with unnecessary features like some other modern STALKER mods.

This mod was definitely an interesting experience. I thought I should write a little breakdown of all the positive and negative stuff. Also, this review contains spoilers, so don't read if that bothers you.

+ The level design is great! I loved exploring both the old and new locations. It was especially interesting seeing the old locations so abandoned, it almost felt like the end of the world.
+ I really liked the atmosphere that this mod creates (mostly through dialogue and level design)
+ It was cool to see Strelok again, I definitely didn't expect to see him there
+ I like how the mod doesn't hold your hand in regards to quests. You don't have any quest markers on the map, so you only have to rely on information obtained through dialogue. Reminds me of TES III: Morrowind.
+The hand-drawn map was a great idea, it suits this mod perfectly

- Monolith spamming grenades. At some points it was practically impossible to fight them because of the amount of grenades flying at me
- The story isn't very intriguing and the plot twist at the end was honestly very predictable
- Literally just one single combat track, which gets really annoying after a while, even though the track itself is pretty good (unless it's a bug, in which case I hope it gets fixed soon)
- english translation isn't exactly bad, but sometimes the grammar errors can be a little distracting

As far as gameplay goes, this mod is really great. It's hard, but not hard in the way that would make me want to kill myself every 2 minutes. I'm actually enjoying it quite a lot. Visually, it's also pretty damn good. And even though I don't quite understand why were the positions of locations changed up, but I got used to it quickly, so it's fine. But the story, well.. That's a whole another thing. I don't want to say that it's straight up bad, but it definetly isn't the best story out there. The whole thing with the controller seems kinda stupid and I feel like it doesn't fit the Stalker world very much.

This quickly became one of my favourite Stalker mods.

This is now my favourite Warband mod.