S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky Info

[V_R]

The story of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky brings the players one year prior to the events of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game in 2011.

A group of stalkers has for the first time reached the very heart of the Zone – Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and brings about a cataclysm on the brink of a catastrophe. An immense blowout of anomalous energy changes the Zone. There are no more reliable and relatively safe roads. The entire levels vanish in the outbursts of anomalies. Stalkers and even expeditions die or end up sealed on the lost territories. New areas, which remained unknown since the time of the Zone emergence, appear on the Zone map. The Zone continues to shake with blowouts. The Zone is unstable. The anomalous activity is at its maximum.


Game features:

·Atmosphere of the Exclusion Zone
·Research of new depths of the Zone – Red Forest, Limansk, Pripyat Undergrounds and more.
·A-Life-driven War of the Factions
·Possibility to play and lead any faction to victory
·Advanced A-Life system
·Varied behaviour of NPC stalkers in the A-Life world
·Advanced spectacular storyline scenes
·Improved AI of computer-controlled characters
·Skirting around dynamic obstacles by NPCs
·Use of grenades by NPCs
·Fast Travel
·Improved concept of detectors, artifacts and anomalies
·New system of upgrades for weapons and armor
·Weapons and armor repair
·Reworked HUD and PDA
·New version of the game engine - X-Ray 1.5.
·DirectX 10 renderer
·Improved DirectX 9 renderer - parallax bump, soft particles, depth of field, motion blur, eye adaptation effect.
·Cutting-edge and detailed game graphics (normal map)
·Inverse kinematics
·New animation engine


Another game i am very much looking forward to!

Few links...

Official Site
CVG Article
Selection of videos here
EuroGamer Article
Some Screenshots

Due out Q1 2008. Apparently!

 

[PotGuy]

Wow looks pretty stunning

 

[V_R]

It does indeed, and i am glad to see this in the features list.... '·Fast Travel'

 

[PotGuy]

Yeah - You reckon that means some kind of car is available?

I doubt that with a game that is made to be pretty realistic they would have a sci-fi teleport system?

 

[Alf]

Perhaps its sort of like Oblivions fast travel?

 

[V_R]

I would think you'd just be able to 'jump' to a particular section. For example in the original, going from the cordon direct to the bar without having to run through the garbage level.


Also the ' ·New system of upgrades for weapons and armor' also sounds interesting, at a guess it will be similar to Crysis with the weapon mod system.

 

[V_R]

Videos for you!!

The first official video of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, demonstrating action gameplay is now available on our web-site.

http://www.stalker-game.com/en/?page=video

 

[Ian]

Thanks for the vids V_R

There are so many games I'm looking forward to at the moment, primarily from screenshots and articles you post

 

[kcanti]

has anyone heard that stalker dont work on windows vista

 

[V_R]

has anyone heard that stalker dont work on windows vista

That's rubbish, i've seen it running on Vista.

 

[kcanti]

oh yeah i forgot about the patch, got a bit mislead by my pc magazine dunno if im allowed to mention thier name