S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky gets delayed

By Robert Purchese Published 18 August, 2008

Won't be out till September.

GSC Game World is confident that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky will be out across Europe on 5th September.

The openworld PC shooter had previously been expected in August; a date set after Clear Sky missed initial "early 2008" forecasts.

Clear Sky, a prequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R., casts the player as a mercenary flitting allegiances between various factions in the nuclear wasteland of Chernobyl.

Technology has been improved to make enemies smarter and the game run more smoothly; some of the areas that put dampeners on our enjoyment of S.T.A.L.K.E.R first time around.

Thankfully, developer GSC seems to have learned the lessons of over-ambition and doing too much at once. Clear Sky has taken only one and a half years to develop, and not six years like S.T.A.L.K.E.R..

Head over to our recent S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky interview to see what GSC had to say about the game.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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