S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl Comments by Patrick Garratt
Come in Reactor 4. Your time is up.
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Poor taste? I think that's called good writing - making a game that centers around the Chernobyl disaster is more distasteful if you ask me. Bragging about how they rebuild the whole 20mile-or-so zone around the reactor brick by brick is distasteful, hope they didn't miss a three legged corpse, it wouldn't be realistic if they did.
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The graphics look more than good enough for this kind of game. I'd rather sacrifice some bells and whistles for the ideas in Staker than have a plastic fantastic world with little else like most FPS games seem to aim for these days.
edit: ...and well done on the article, it's seriously one of the best things I've read on EG.
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PearOfAnguish
07/11/06 @ 13:49
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Good article. Looking forward to this one, don't care if the graphics are a little dated.
Yellowtruck, leave your Sony cock-sucking for Xbox and PS3 articles, dimwit.
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captainrentboy
07/11/06 @ 13:54
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Yellowtruck I'll tell you where Black's weaponary was even more impressive,on the xbox,infact come to think of it,it looks even more impressive on my 360 :)
Anyway this game sounds like it could be very impressive come release,but for something that has taken 82 years to be developed the graphics aren't shaping up too sexily are they? :/ |
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crazyhorse174
07/11/06 @ 14:04
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Is Yellowtruck on Sony's payroll?
Seriously, every time I read one of your comments, no matter what the article is about, it involves bumming about the PS3. Have to agree with the other folks here though - top article. Well done |
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JediMasterMalik
07/11/06 @ 14:08
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Excellent article, loved reading it. I am looking forward to the game, but now I actually want to go to Chernobyl myself.
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Psychotext
07/11/06 @ 14:09
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crazyhorse174: I really hope he is on the payroll... because for someone who isn't to be such a raving fanboy really drops any remaining faith in humanity I had.
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groovychainsaw
07/11/06 @ 14:10
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If it manages to live up to the 'Deus Ex crossed with Oblivion' that I can read between the lines here (the bit where you find the alternate entrance to a compound sounds like classic Deus Ex), then you have a convert here. But only if it ever gets finished...
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FlamingCarrot
07/11/06 @ 14:27
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The film is great by the way, and don't forget the book its based on "Roadside Picnic" If the atmosphere is right then the graphics are not everything. Anyone remember Realms of the Haunting back in days pre Voodoo cards + 3DFX? Looked shite but had tons of dread. We get too hung up on the graphics and not enough on the gameplay.
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stoopidgreg
07/11/06 @ 14:37
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tell us about the game, not your little bus ride! you told us practically nothing about the actual game.
also, the fact there are frame rate issues and frequent crashes this late in development is very worrying. i was really looking forward to this game, but i don't know if they can still pull it off. |
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holy_bazooka
07/11/06 @ 14:43
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Great article.
The game reminds me of Fallout. If its anywhere even close as good then real life is over for a while.
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Emilia'sHorse
07/11/06 @ 14:53
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Yellowtruck is an arse.
This is the most compelling article ever written by EG and that knob head compares weapons...Child. This game will be legendary no matter if it fails to have everything working as it should. Pathologic made me yearn for S.T.A.L.K.E.R even more. I hope THQ are giving something back to the people of Chernobyl if the game is a huge success.
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Heh - I really thought this was gonna go the way of Dragon Empires (canned) or Duke Nukem Forever (will never get released).
Fair play to them for sticking with it, but I honestly can't see it doing very well when it comes out - it'll get lost in the mire of FPS games that comes out on PC and languish on the shelves of GAME. |
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ok, so here's a question.
I was reading with interest today an article in MCV (no, really) about bias in reviewers, and how the money spent on them by PR companies influences their opinion. So my question is, would a trip to Chernobyl and the emotional impact it involves give the game itself more impact when it's reviewed? Is that fair or not? The article in MCV suggested not allowing the same person to review a game as went on the PR trips, having read this preview I can see exactly what they mean. |
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FlamingCarrot
07/11/06 @ 15:35
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I'd prefer it in Russian with subtitles. I hope it does see the light of the day as the whole concept of the Zone in the film was incredibly creepy + unsettling.
However, with the years that this has been in development i hope its not trying to polish a turd. |
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groovychainsaw
07/11/06 @ 15:54
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I just have fears that with the long development time and a slightly 'forced' final staright, they just won't be able to deliver on the scope they first suggested (shades of fable here, it could still be a decent game even though it doesnt give you the world you were anticipating so much).
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captainrentboy
07/11/06 @ 16:02
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Lacero I read that too,and it certainly made a really good point.After a journalist has been lavished with wonderful gifts from a particular game developers PR folk is it really right that 3 months down the line they then go on to review that particular game,with all those treats still fresh in their minds?I say No,which is why I take most reviews with a pinch of salt nowadays,especially from the official mags.
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TexMurphy01
07/11/06 @ 17:09
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Nice article, although I always skip those, "I wanna be a writer, but it all went wrong and I ended up here," sections at the start.
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Moonprince
07/11/06 @ 17:13
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You must be something special TexMurphy01 to make a comment like that...
...Though, I some how doubt it. :( |
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