|
|
 |
|
|
|
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Review (continued)
More User Submitted S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Reviews
Date: 2008-03-31
don't waste your money
I looked forward to this game and waited thru all the delays. they should have delayed another year. aside from the bug problems, the game just sucks all by itself. when a game thinks it's being challenging by bringing NPCs up behind you to attack from an area you just spent a lot of time and ammo clearing, that tells me how weak the game play is. so I spent $50 for a game that is selling for $20 6 months later now that everyone knows how much it sucks. THQ has gotten their last dollar out of me. FOAD
Date: 2008-03-15
Entertaining Shooter
This is a very good shooter. The graphics are excellent and the game play is fun once you get the hang of playing a FPS like this. But be warned -- it is a real struggle to play if you don't have the horses: ram, video card, etc. I barely had what it took to play it.
I have seen quite a few complaints about it being glitchy. I rarely had a problem -- it probably crashed two or three times the entire game, but again -- it is a real hog for memory. Make sure you update before you start playing -- I believe this resolves most issues.
Its quite fun once you get the hang of it, but there are some hassles. I was constantly wrestling with the weight limitations and make sure you use the correct combination of artifacts and health kits.
The AI is fantastic -- probably the best ever (better than Far Cry). It would have been nice to drive or fly something, but that is a tiny complaint.
I was never able to get the multi-player to work, but this might have been due to my system.
I highly recommend this game. Its fun and challenging
Date: 2008-02-29
Excellent in many ways
I'm not going to go overboard with this review since there are plenties here that are very helpful already. The game is really good, excellent graphics and it even runs on computers without the latests techs on them as I got to test myself before upgrading my video card. The IA is top of its class and don't expect it to stand up in the same spot waiting for you to shoot them down, that means you shouldn't do the same either and have to play very actively. In fact, the IA is what I like the most about this game, it's superb.
But even though this game seems so cool there are a few things that didn't convince me completely. The back story and setting are excellent, if people have compared the setting to FallOut they are damn right, but the game play story misses lots of things and since it's so open ended you may end up finding out a few things before you were supposed to, in overall the story is confusing and somewhat cliche (not the backstory, no). Also, even though it has some RPG elements, like stats, upgrades, interaction with NPCs, Inventory management, there are a few things that doesn't fit too well. The interactions with other NPCs are very poor, you are either friend (or neutral which would pretty much be the same) or enemy which sums to a shoot you or not shoot you situation. The dialogs are very poor even though the NPCs are so unique in their behavior, but their limited speech (which ends up being almost the same for each one of them)doesn't let you differentiate them much from each other. The inventory limitation and organization is there, but it's not, it's not like the one from Diablo for example where you are limited by both size and weight. here you seem to be only limited by weight which makes me wonder, why organize your inventory anyway if everything is going to fit at the end? The trading is very dull as well, no matter how much money you have you can't do much with it, you can either sell the guns of the guys you hunt down to other people it seems since they are not very interested. On another note, the game box was HUGE, it seems it was meant for 2 disk and a huge manual, but the manual is very short and pretty much useless, there's only one disk and it was literally dancing inside all of the space for the unnecessary space.
Despite the bad score the game is really good but I'd recommend you waiting for the next title which will be a prequel for this one and hopefully all the glitches will be solved. Bear in mind that this game had a totally different concept when it began as the one it had as of release and it was even considered a vaporware until it reedemed itself hence the glitches.
Date: 2008-02-17
lame RPG posing as an FPS
Walk around. Die of radiation. Walk around. Die of radiation.
This game is too complicated (like Bioshock) to be enjoyable. Game makers should take cues from Half-Life, Crysis and COD 4 which are exciting but you don't have to read the manual over and over and over and still not figure it out.
This game sucks.
Date: 2008-02-08
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shawdow of Chernobyl
This would be a 5 STAR game if the screen would quit freezing up for 1 to 10 seconds after about 10 to 20 minutes df play
|
|
|
|
