GSC Game World's president, Sergey Grigorovitch has revealed that not only is there a third instalment to the popular S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series in the works, but it will be released this autumn.
Since last November, it was
widely believed* that the next game would be called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Apocalyptic and would utilise the CryEngine2 game engine used in the Crysis series of games rather than the X-ray engine from Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky.
However, in an
online conference* earlier this week, Grigorovitch was asked whether the
April 2009 calendar featuring the words 'Call of Pripyat' in Russian was an April Fools' joke.
He
replied* that this was not a joke and would be the name of the second expansion. He
added* that this new expansion will be released later this year. Furthermore, a full S.T.A.L.K.E.R. title is also in development, although there's currently no information on when we will hear more about this.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl was released in March 2007 after a long time in development and frequent delays. The standalone prequel, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky was released in September 2008 with severe stability issues that made the game unplayable even on high end systems. Most of the game-breaking bugs have since been patched (currently to
v1.5.08), but players still report problems and severe graphical issues that were not present in
v1.5.04.
We're a little sceptical about another S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game being released so soon, particularly with the series' track record. We're also wondering why this hasn't been announced already, especially if S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is expected this year.
| * Thanks to Decl for translating |
| Corrupt^ (Corrupt^) 13 Apr 2009 01:30 | |
Awesome, best SP shooter ever 
Took me some surfing on russian sites and babelfish to fix the bugs though. |
| Netram. (Netram.) 12 Apr 2009 19:04 | |
erm . no-cd crack !
1) Doesn't work
2) Why should I have to use a crack? |
| -coF.Brego- (-coF.Brego-) 12 Apr 2009 10:35 | |
What a great news, I were expecting some about this GREAT game and there it is!
For me, the most expected game for this year. |
| {T][F}Froooooom ({TIF}) 12 Apr 2009 10:04 | |
As long as it is as buggy as Clear Sky I won't buy it, god it took me months and so many patches before I could play the game pretty decent without lockups |
| Johnooooo (Redeem) 11 Apr 2009 22:59 | |
Netram. wrote:
Well I won't be buying it.
I got fucked over with Clear Sky 'cause of the copy protection on the disc means it doesn't work on both of my DVD drives.
I've had no support from them at all, despite me e-mailing both Deep Silver, Tages and GSC. The ideal thing they could do is give me a fix for my DVD or at the very best let me put my CD-Key into Steam so I can bypass the DVD-Check.
Never buying a game from them / retail unless someone can restore faith that I won't get fucked over AGAIN. Fuck DRM.
erm . no-cd crack ! |
| iG|nakkait (iG|) 10 Apr 2009 19:23 | |
my god its gonna be the shit!!! I cant belive, moreeeee stalker fuck yee |
| Mko (lBulbs) 10 Apr 2009 17:56 | |
Im really looking forward to see some more info  STALKER is great |
| Obsidian ([043]) 10 Apr 2009 14:56 | |
When it doesn't have as many bugs as CS it's super.  |
| Spit (Spit) 10 Apr 2009 14:35 | |
hmmmmm? |
| Netram. (Netram.) 10 Apr 2009 14:13 | |
Well I won't be buying it.
I got fucked over with Clear Sky 'cause of the copy protection on the disc means it doesn't work on both of my DVD drives.
I've had no support from them at all, despite me e-mailing both Deep Silver, Tages and GSC. The ideal thing they could do is give me a fix for my DVD or at the very best let me put my CD-Key into Steam so I can bypass the DVD-Check.
Never buying a game from them / retail unless someone can restore faith that I won't get fucked over AGAIN. Fuck DRM. |
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