S.T.A.L.K.E.R. prequel gets date

By Robert Purchese Published 27 March, 2008

Clear Sky in August.

Deep Silver and GSC World Publishing will be releasing S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky around the world on 29th August.

The game been expected towards the beginning of the year, but a slight delay is unsurprising given the legacy of the first title.

Clear Sky is a prequel that offers an alternative view of the events in the 2007 PC original, granting you the opportunity live your life as a mercenary and fight for numerous factions.

Alongside all this will be smarter enemies and technological improvements to the open-ended world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is based around the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in a fictional world where everything went even more pear-shaped than we remember it. And we loved it; it was gigantic and scary, if a little rough around the edges.

Pop over to our S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Review or Clear Sky first impressions to find out more.

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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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Comments (18) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • GitSomE_UK #1 4 years ago

    First!

    Time to upgrade that PC

  • mkreku #2 4 years ago

    August 2010 perhaps.

  • Widge #3 4 years ago

    Hopefully this'll run on m'trust m1530

  • Nithron #4 4 years ago

    Considering GSC's record on the original Stalker, it wouldn't surprise me if we were already living in a radioactive wasteland by the time this actually gets released.

  • BradMillette #5 4 years ago

    Did they ever get the first game working properly?

  • kangarootoo #6 4 years ago

    STALKER was ace. I shall play it again at some point I think, probably with a few mods to sort some of the issues.

  • Widge #7 4 years ago

    Any chance of a summary of the bug and what Float32 did to fix it?
    I think I've got an unpatched vanilla STALKER on my system...

  • Widge #8 4 years ago

    I've got a 8600GTm DDR3 and my screen is 1440res... I'll have to put this on and see what happens because I can set all the sliders to max which aren't quite hitting that yet! I think I'm playing on 1280res at the moment too.

    I must check to see if I'm fully patched too. I think I just read the game is patched up to v1.6, so will do some digging.

  • UncleLou #9 4 years ago

    Did they ever get the first game working properly?


    Yes. Worked flawlessly for me after the first patch.

  • Feanor #10 4 years ago

    "It's had a fair few patches and the buggy, system-killing dynamic lighting code was fixed by a third party in the end:"

    Does the game look a lot worse if you switch dynamic lighting off?

  • espy #11 4 years ago

    As far as I know, you actually can't play properly without dynamic lighting, because the torch doesn't work. And you really need the torch.

  • Feanor #12 4 years ago

    Hmm, can you use the patch if you get the game thru Steam?

  • espy #13 4 years ago

    The Steam version is automatically patched whenever neccessary, like everything else on steam.

  • karstux #14 4 years ago

    I wish they'd just work on the promised 1.1 patch instead. It was supposed to be released last year and add some good stuff to the SP mode - most notably, a Freeplay option which removes the limits from the ALife system and lets you play independent of the storyline.

    It's a great game all in all, but GSC really need to get their act together. I mean, look at companies like Deep Silver or CD Project. The Fall was flawed as hell at release, but it got speedy and thorough support through patches. The Witcher gets a huge content patch soon as well. And a lot sooner than a year after release!

  • Feanor #15 4 years ago

    "The Steam version is automatically patched whenever neccessary, like everything else on steam."

    We're talking about a 3rd party patch, though.

  • mull #16 4 years ago

    D.E.L.A.Y.S = L.A.M.E

  • Sneerk #17 4 years ago

    Smeg! I thought i would be playing it this spring...

  • Widge #18 4 years ago

    Float is on. Now running at 1440res with all but shadows on grass on, very little Antistropping Filtering and Anti Aliens though.
    Still cheers for that mod!