love stalker series.

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Йди своєю дорогою, сталкер.
Атмосферно, моторошно, баговано, базовано.

My standards were pretty low seeing that it is 17 years old, however I was surprised to see the level of detail this game has. There were a lot of mechanics that ,for it's time, made me go "Wow, this is unexpectedly good".

I did almost no side quests because it was my first stalker game and i wanted to feel the story more (I'll definedly explore the other games more) and it took me aprox. 16 hours.

This game definedly has it's flaws that are at the least mildly annoying and at worst unplayable. Here are some that i noticed while playing:
1. The story felt weightless, with no real meaning. It failed to interest me and i found myself forgetting what the ♥♥♥♥ I was doing 30 seconds after being given a quest. The ending was so anticlimactic it felt strange.
2. Your inventory is limited to 50kg. Every item in the game has weight for example a bandage(simplest form of healing) weighs 0.10 kgs, combine that with the heavy weight of armor, primary and secondary weapons, grenades, other healing, bullets and you quickly get to the limit of 50kg leaving you with no space left for a new cool weapon that you found or other loot.
3. There are too many enemies/they are too hard to kill. In the last 3 levels the enemies are turned into overdrive. They are everywhere, they are hard to kill, and they hit damn hard. I found myself running instead of fighting in the next to last level because it started to become a slog.
4. The last level. All my homies hate the last level.

Bought it on discount, took me 3 days to beat, had a good time (until the last level).
Final score 7/10