S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

A worthy continuation of the series. In terms of gameplay: I didn’t notice anything radically new, they kept everything that Stalker is famous for. In terms of plot: excellent work, a logical continuation of the events of the previous parts. In terms of sound: atmospheric ambient, high-quality work. In terms of optimization: it’s frankly lame, but it’s a matter of time (and modmakers). According to the graphics: an attempt in 4k ultra hd with all sorts of tracings and other fashionable ones; crooked, but watchable. In terms of management: everything is ok, there are no innovations here. And finally, localization: it’s bad without native voice acting, but the craftsmen are already trying their best, so it’s a matter of time.

A most disappointing sequel. Of course, you can play this and even have fun, too. However, the abundance of bugs, the lack of Russian voice acting (biased political choice), sometimes Russophobic references (such as a song about “Russian” on the radio, or building an image of the USSR as a prison and concentration camp) and a very infantile plot greatly spoiled the impression. The feeling that the plot was written by an inertly thinking immature teenager. Maybe if I were 14 years old, all this wouldn’t hurt my ears. But since I’m 34, I can’t help but perceive such moments without disgust. Just like the main consumer who was waiting for this game. With this game, the series died for me, and the spirit of this universe will forever remain only in the first parts of the game. Although an inex… Read full

The game is excellent, but I really don’t like the desertedness of the game’s territories. dead lifeless locations. If opponents appear very rarely, then it’s unclear how they very quickly kill me from a hundred meters with pistols or a shotgun, and at the same time I’m wearing an exa diamond pumped up. I, in turn, do not see the enemy in the SVD optics because of the bushes and distance

Scripts, walking and wandering, completely broken game mechanics with firecrackers instead of grenades and tanks instead of mutants. The nostalgic atmosphere helps for now, but it won’t last long

Dull, as usual, something unfinished. If before I started playing after a year and a half, then I took the risk right away, in vain. We'll have to wait at least a year. I’m silent about the Russian voice acting, I can speak English fluently, but the brakes are darkness. The interface is complete, nothing is clear, nothing can be configured. The bugs are wild, half of them are impossible to view on individual settings. It takes half an hour to load on the launcher, although other games run on the same engine. Damn, they made a “call of Pripyat”, almost without bugs, now again it’s dull, slow crap. Making the game more complicated is not a problem, they did it, they added more complications, but there is no way to make it playable at all. Even though I’m a fan of the series, it’s unrealistic… Read full

The stalker became a brutal shooting to the detriment of the atmosphere and philosophicality of the first three parts. There are a lot of inevitable killings of people, which depreciates the so -necessary humanism and good now (sorry for the banality, but the children play). Niichaz is clearly from another game and the world, very spoils the feeling of reality of the plot. Expert game mechanics are not finalized by 30%. First of all, I would like to globally reduce the illogical respue from nowhere to appear NPS and monsters, which prevents the GG from exploring the zone, as well as reduce in the game the level of oversiddened hostility, including the weather ("what were sunsets/dawn on amber"). Despite the diverse relief of the zone, the feeling of uniformity, oversaturation of artisanal vegetation, soil of soil and lack of grass does not leave.

They are writing a masterpiece, I didn’t catch something. Fierce shootouts, they exist, but somehow they don’t look like real ones, because a bullet and MP5 cannot penetrate a concrete block FPS! Enemies spawn behind your back. If there is an NPC and a Utant, then they jointly rush at the antagonist. Hiding places, it feels like the local stalkers have no valuables other than to devour. I don’t know why, but sometimes my FPS crashes, even though the laptop meets the recommended requirements, even the coolers don’t spin at full power. There are bugs with completing some quests. So the game is still far from a masterpiece, but there is potential. I'll wait for the gentlemen modders to bring the game to mind.

The game at first glance is ok, but when you start going through the missions you find a lot of bugs + they charge 59 bucks for the game. Let’s say you’re Elon Musk and you don’t care about the price, let’s put aside the bugs, then the game is normal except that before you start the mission you have to make sure that you have health, food, water, an incomplete gun, an additional gun, incomplete armor, etc. If you go through a mission and you run out of heals or ammo, be kind enough to drop half a map to the seller, buy heals and throw a bolt at the anomaly like the Stalker developers, but that’s fine :)

For now I only recommend it as a fan. When a lot of things are corrected, everything else can be corrected.

You can’t put a product of this quality on the market while saying that everything is optimized and works great. GSC constantly lies and engages in outright hackwork, which is already the second product of similar quality, it’s not for nothing that many users have the feeling that when they play the second stalker, they are playing the first part, which was wrapped in a new shell called Unreal Engien 5. So think for yourself head and draw conclusions!

An unoptimized, buggy piece of code. Yes, it makes you nostalgic for the old stalkers, it’s fun to shoot guns, but it’s impossible to play.

I play through cloud gaming using a gamepass, since I have one s. Gameplay is the same old stalker that I remember from Call of Pripyat, which I like. In general, I liked the graphics, but there are artifacts and objects in the distance that are blurry, but my sin is that this is due to the fact that I am playing through the cloud. I haven’t encountered any critical bugs yet, mostly NPS that are located in objects (boxes, carts, etc.)