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PC News by Tom Bramwell
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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hiddenranbir
25/01/08 @ 11:19
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Nithron I remember when I bought HL2 and I was at uni.
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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Hmm... No, no, i don't think so. If i was trying to play Team Fortress 2 and it didn't work, fine, as it's an online game. But I wasn't, I was trying to play HL2, and Portal, quite conspicuously offline games, which i had paid for, but i couldn't because Valve have some paranoiac copy protection scheme that arbitrary requires me to connect to the net every time i play their games i legally acquired, just in case i stole them.
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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Valve have some paranoiac copy protection scheme that arbitrary requires me to connect to the net every time i play their games i legally acquired, just in case i stole them.
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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This is one game that's a must buy for me. STALKER was easily the best shooter I've played in years. I just wish it had more of RPG features in it. It would have been so cool if you'd been able to upgrade your character and weapons more. Oh, and a little more freedom to move about wouldn't have hurt either, but that's expected from this sequel instead :)
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stoopidgreg
27/01/08 @ 15:46
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i still haven't finished stalker, only an hour from the end i think but i have a crap suit and just keep dying from radiation :(
can't wait for clear sky, the screenshots look lovely. new animations, models, locations, mutants, weapons... |
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Avenger1324
28/01/08 @ 15:48
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I'm cautious of GSC after STALKER as it seemed that a lot of stuff was held back to make this sequel/prequel.
I hope this one is truly open world, as we thought Stalker would have been. |
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