S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow Of Chernobyl Comments by Jim Rossignol

If you don't buy this game. then I am not going to talk to you......... Bye!

Oh okay then, sorry. you did did you? Well isn't it just so brilliant?! I mean, the wind gusts! The rain that falls less when under a tree! What about those dogs - the AI is incredible isn't it?! I love those major battles with half a dozen allies against a dozen enemies - and of course how SCARY is this game?!

Man, we are so lucky to have ignored the reviewers that just 'didn't get' this game, eh?! I mean we are so lucky to have this experience that only comes along every 5 years or so!

Let's go down the pub, i'll buy you a beer - not everyday I meet and intelligent gamer who understands about intelligent games, like STALKER!

What did you score it by the way? Hey! same as me, but I went a little higher with a 9.6 score! :)

Well I just bought stallker to run on my newly aquired joke of a pc (some ex-lease dell buisness computer).
The underground segments are really stressing me out! I find myself lumbering around only grams below the weight limit, hoarding 50 health packs 'just in case.' I am finding the helth packs to be more than abundant while ammo is scarce. Highly reccomended overall.

I'm gonna write a Stalker Revisited review. I feel, for my gameplay,the game is very well balanced, I've got loads of ammo as long as i scavenge every guy I find. At least you alway have your handgun and right now I have about 250 standard rounds. I also leave guns,ammo and medpacks at the "bootlenecks" between areas. They do not disappear, nor do dead bodys for a long time.

I'm playing at the hardest level, headshots are hard but torso and head-area are the important places to hit in gunfights and I love how long they last. No gung-ho AI, they flank quietly, stand ground, hide in bushes or pull back.

The more I think about it this deserves a new review since people aren't that much in the "shadow of specs" anymore. :)

is it just me or is the ending to this game absolutely atrocious??after all those hours i put in to end the way it did....please someone tell me im not alone!!

I think the game kind of ended abbruptly for my part in the sense that the two last maps Pripjat and the actual power plant was complete chaos and pure survival, mostly. I almost went out of ammo and was wondering about backtracking over two maps to spend all my cash on a suit and loads of ammo for a fitting gun for both close combat and long distance sniping...

Things felt a bit rushed in the end, but then the actual ending was all alone in the core of the melted plant, the artistic design of that room was a bit of a pleasant surprise with the almost 2001: A space oddysey kind of weird ending, beautiful lighting and atmosphere.

Having spread my gameplay over about 3months on this game I had no trouble with the game ending in a video well knowing that I will probably finish the game one or two times more and try to explore all the endings.

The ending I got was probably not the best one, and that find STRELOK stuff just disappeared in the end of the game. Probably due to me not exploring all possible side missions in the end before pripjat. I've found a "map of the zone" (by googeling) showing most secret stuff and this map also states some stuff you need to have or do before the last map for "best ending".

Snooz - if you did that review let me know - would like to read it! Also, don't forget guys, 7 endings, with 5 bad ones. So if you found a bad one, then that was a bad one! :)