S.T.A.L.K.E.R. sequel set for Steam
Same time as retail, later this year.
GSC Game World and Valve have announced that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky will be digitally distributed exclusively through Steam when the game comes out "later this year".
That doesn't mean that there won't be a boxed version, though, because there will, but GSC has yet to announce who will be publishing it. THQ, which handled the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R., seems to have run home crying.
GSC CEO Sergiy Grygorovych said the devs "chose to deliver the digital version of the game exclusively on Steam because of its proven success not only as the leading global digital distribution platform for games, but because it allows us to directly reach its integrated and active community of gamers".
Gabe Newell called GSC a "forward-thinking game maker". Our friends at Rock, Paper, Shotgun remarked that they "like to imagine people quoted in press releases winking chummily to each other when they say things like that", which is certainly more romantic than swapping emails with huge CC lists while everyone changes the wording and then 'ticks' it and someone makes a PDF.
Anyway, Clear Sky takes place one year prior to the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - a group of stalkers has reached the heart of the Zone with catastrophic results, and you have to shoot people in a very free-form manner to sort things out.
For more on why that's an exciting prospect, check in with our S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl review.
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After paying for the entire Orange Box and not being able to play it because of the way my university's network works - and the fact that Valve just can't be arsed to add network settings to their damn program - there's no way i'm paying for it this time round
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My HL2 was retail, however, but still needed to unlock. Steam was blocked from the uni, of course.
I used a proxy bypass. It's not Valve's fault. It's yours for trying to play games on a uni network.
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To make matters worse it didn't even give me an error, they just got stuck at 0% updating and refused to play.
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You don't need to connect to the net every time you play them, just once. Take your computer to a mate's/internet cafe/wherever, validate and update the games and then you can play whenever you like in offline mode.
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Supposed to be coming to 360 as they've just been made a licensed 360 dev.
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How quaint.
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can't wait for clear sky, the screenshots look lovely. new animations, models, locations, mutants, weapons...
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I hope this one is truly open world, as we thought Stalker would have been.