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

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Rating: 90%
Review Title: Awesome

Verdict: It's an improvement from SoC in most aspects.

Main goal of the game is survive, not only you, everyone else in the zone depends on it. You have to be very careful because dieing is easy, you have to keep an eye always in the radiation detector, your level of radiation poisoning, and remember that you can die by bleeding if you are short of bandages, medkits will not save you from that easily. The most amazing weapon is the tank machine gun, its like an 'i win' button at close range until it starts to wear down and you have to reload in the middle of something hairy. It's found along the game tossed by The Zone with the rest of the tank, you may need to wear an exoskeleton just to carry the ammo and the gun. I've had one or two CTDs over the entire game as it is indeed somewhat buggy, but not as much as SoC, albeit i use dx9. The game is very easy to mod and change to your liking which is a plus, even so you may need some programming understanding to do it without problems or just download and install some of the miriad of community mods already floating on the internet.

Rating: 65%
Review Title: Stalker Clear Sky problems.

Verdict: Not Bad but way too buggy!

Have only played this for about 3 hours but the game seems good but way too buggy. Sounds are not working correctly on vista 64 bits with x-fi card. Have set anti-aliasing on the gfx settings and it will not display with AA. Characters are very wooden, gun textures are sloppy. Framerates are not too good even with a 4870x2. Also keep dieing for no apparent reason. Health bar just runs down for no reason even when you use a medikit or bandage with no reason shown as why? Good points gameplay is pretty good.

Rating: 85%
Review Title: No excuse for bugging out...

Verdict: Phil's review is pretty much spot-on. Lots to do, but unlike SoC, a weak storyline - no real sense of fighting to an end - just fighting to survive. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.

They had the right idea, though they let themselves down in a couple of respects, already mentioned in Phil's review. Despite the good patches so far, I've had more CTDs with this game than I have in the whole of the last year since I built my PC. DX10 graphics rock! Bring on the mods...

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