GSC Gameworld Announce S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Is In Development

Though it was posted to the official GSC Gameworld website on Friday, the official announcement of a new S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game passed me by until this morning. Despite the first three games only being available on the PC, the next S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is being developed with “multi-platform technology”. It might be heresy to say so but even as a devout PC disciple I’m glad that console gamers will finally get to experience S.T.A.L.K.E.R.‘s uniquely bleak and threatening environments. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is set for a 2012 release and I’m already looking forward to it. Read on for a little background on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise.

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, Shadow Of Chernobyl, Clear Sky and Call Of Pripyat, take place in and around the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a radioactive wasteland left by the Chernobyl disaster. They’re set in an alternate history where mysterious phenomena began emanating from “The Zone” and several groups of “Stalkers” arrive on the scene. Stalkers are the brave, foolhardy or just plain greedy people that venture in to the exclusion zone to recover precious artifacts with incredible powers.

Mechanically speaking, the games are a combination of first-person shooter, open-world western RPG and survival horror. The exclusion zone is an incredibly hostile environment to be carefully explored with the threat of being killed by a rival Stalker or a mutated animal always present. I won’t spoil the games by describing every last detail, if you have the patience to cope with their steep difficulty curves then you should definitely check them out.

Via: Destructoid