S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl Computer Game

Pros: Great graphics, freeroaming design ALA the elder scrolls, tons of side quests, incredible atmosphere

Cons: Kind of buggy

The Bottom Line: If you liked the games Deus Ex, System shock, Fallout, or just want a great free roaming style first person shooter, this game is a must buy.

Review: This game has been in production for the last 6 years, and while the engine is showing its age, the lighting effects, shaders & amazing weather system make up for it. While the graphics are a little dated the lighting effects show every shadow, and the ...

Pros: Great premise, cool environment.

Cons: Frame skips, poor indoor AI, steep learning curve at the start.

The Bottom Line: Once you get past the stiff early chapters, the game becomes much more enticing. A bold, innovative shooter that works more often than it fails.

Review: The FPS community has been waiting anxiously for the arrival of STALKER for quite some time now. For several years we've seen screenshots of the decaying facade of the power plant, masked gunmen, and fantastic mutated monsters. We've been promised ...

Pros: Refreshing mix of RPG and FPS, authentic maps, dynamic lighting, free-roaming

Cons: Lengthy dialogs, unpolished controls, unbalanced weapons

The Bottom Line: Refreshing take on the FPS genre but with some difficulties to keep the FPS crowd happy (controls and pace).

Review: Chernobyl, 1986: The infamous accident, due to poor coordination during an attempted experiment by shutting down the reactor's power-regulating system and its emergency safety systems, turns in to the chain reaction that eventually went out of ...

Pros: Great combat system, Unique area for a game, Intelligent AI

Cons: Seems unfinished, Certain ammo is scarce, Can be very difficult compared to your average FPS.

The Bottom Line: I highly recommend this game to those bored with your typical gung-ho FPS game. It's a unique game and more like it need to exist.

Review: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl tries it's best to be a FPS/RPG hybrid that is fairly free-roaming and for the most part pulls it off quite nicely in a wonderfully conceived world that is very original. In 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor ...

Pros: Pretty good FPS with some role playing elements

Cons: A few design bugs and some repititious missions

The Bottom Line: Good shooter with minor role playing elements.

Review: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (OK now I am only going to use “stalker”) is a first person shooter with some cool role playing elements. This elevates it above the twitch FPS like Doom and Quake but it is not quite as involved as a “true” role playing game like ...

Pros: Combines an RPG and FPS

Cons: AI and Graphics

The Bottom Line: I couldn't find much to like about this game, though some people seem to enjoy it quite a lot.

Review: I could not get into STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl for a variety of reasons. I was expecting the game to be more shooter than RPG, but either way I found myself getting bored with it very quickly. I thought the AI wasn’t very intelligent, and the ...