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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky (PC DVD) | 
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| From: Koch
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 839
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: role-playing-games
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
EAN: 4020628502379
ASIN: B0013JZ2H8
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Atmospheric - but flawed sequel December 12, 2008
Mr. T. James (South Wales, UK)
The original Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl is up there in my top 5. the pure atmosphere of the game coupled with its incredible storyline made it another relationship tester. I wanted to play on it rather than watch TV with the mrs. I was also lucky in that my PC didnt seem to rub the irritable game engine up the wrong way and make it crash, something which has afflicted many gamers playing it.
This sequel, Clear Sky has a lot more of the same. Atmosphere is there in spades, story is again good but there are too many similar aspects to the game, the weapons need more of an overhaul, they should have spent more time changing the levels of the zone. And the bugs... Well to me it takes the mickey out of your average paying gamer. The game kicks me out if my finger even hovers near the 'quickload' button, something that should be rock solid in any difficult first person shooter where you die quickly and often. The quests are a bit more diverse but again are quite unpredicatable on success due to bugs, however the upgrade aspect helps and the search for artifacts is testing. So not bad by any means, but a shame in that it could have been something approaching a classic if done properly.
 Run like hell December 6, 2008
susan parker
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have played the fist installment of this game, the original SoC. Though atmospheric it was, nevertheless, it was not a techical success as it had crashed very often and randomly and was full of unrepairable bugs up to date. Some community forum members offered some help in bugs repairing, while GSC Game World stood still.
You thought it was a bad experience?
Guess again.
Because you hadn't seen Clear Sky yet. Go and see GSC (the developers) forum and see how many pages, page after page, are full of crying customers, some even cursing at the developers. Why? Because this game crashes so often and contaminates your saves, making all your efforts that took many hours of your life nothing but a zero.
Gameplay is also very linear, unimaginative, repetitive and beyond any intelligent reasoning. It is done as if just for the sake of making a game and betting on the good intentions of gamers who nevertheless would go and buy it on the promise of a better game than SoC.
Go and read the reviews on CVG game site and other top gaming review sites. All say that it's a big disappointment.
Whatever the Clear Sky offers, freelty available mods (community made free add-ons) made for SoC offer more and wider scope of things including Faction Wars and changing factions at will. No need to pay money for this game in this economic situation. Get some free mods, you'll be better off.
Do not be fooled by the reviews very possibly written by GSC Gaming World publicity department.
Run like hell. You've been warned.
 Worthy Successor November 24, 2008
Christopher Burns (UK)
I was a big fan of the original game, and Clear Sky is similar and different enough to make this one worth your while.
If you have a top-end video card, the game engine is highly impressive in DX10 mode, but you will need a top-of-the-line video card to see it. I have an 8800GT paired with a Core2Duo and 4GB of RAM, and my setup is creaking under the strain. Tweakguides.com has a very good configuration guide which will show and describe exactly how to modify the graphics engine to best effect - I strongly suggest you read it.
Clear Sky expands on Shadow of Chernobyl by opening up large new areas around those in the original; you start off in the Swamps outside the Cordon, and can progress past Yantar into the Red Forest, and more still. Existing areas you've seen in the first title are now subtly different, as are the gameplay mechanics. If you want, you can largely ignore the "faction"-based gameplay, and just roam around as in the first title - major- and sub-missions will guide you through the story, although on one or two occasions it's a bit jarring to have your progress forced along. It's also notably much tougher this time around, too. Enemies are quite a bit tougher, much more heavily armed and smarter now, and it's harder than the first title to acquire useful equipment and money. Plus, you'll get mugged at least twice in this one, meaning you lose all the cash you're carrying. Mutants are now very very dangerous indeed; much more so than other human characters. Clear Sky is also a pretty long game; if you take your time, you'll get 20 hours out of it pretty easily.
I have found this game to be unduly buggy, though, and I didn't start playing until a couple of weeks ago in November 2008. Patched several times, it remains unstable - there is definitely a bug where trying to load a quick-save after you die (i.e. pressing F9 after dying) without going to the main menu to do it is guaranteed to cause a fatal crash. You also stand a good chance of getting randomly shot at by pre-supposed allies now and again.
For the money, this is not half bad, even accounting for the bugs
Opustil Oruzhie November 21, 2008
Alexander Smout (UK)
A note on computer requirements:
To run this game properly you should really have a dual core processor and 2Gb of RAM.
I have a 3GHz single core processor with a Nvidia 9600 GT graphics card and 1.5Gb of RAM (Windows XP) and my processor suffers with this game, the gameplay is jerky, thus is not very playable. Which is a shame because the actual game looks amazing.
So make sure you have a nice PC before getting this.
 Just GREAT! November 13, 2008
R. Zajic (Chernobyl, USA)
I just bought this game.Its just great, played patch 1.05.07.For me its better than shadow of chernobyl.Really good game.Also am playing it on laptop for full dynamic lihting, dont need any 8800gt or whatever.I own hd 2600 in my toshiba, and its just great.Of course there was few problems from the start, but now, finally they did good job.
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