From the very beginning of the introductory video, you understand that this game is not just “completely different,” but significantly different from all games in this genre. Night, rain, thunderstorm, road, “Truck of Death” and the corpses of dead stalkers, including “Marked One”!
Having met Sidorovich, you understand that from the very beginning of the game they started introducing you to not the most pleasant people in the zone. But this is not the worst thing. The worst thing is the Village of Bloodsuckers, which is impossible to pass by without “growing” a tail of 5 bloodsuckers. The tasks are not difficult, but it is difficult to survive on the way between destinations without getting into an anomaly, a shootout, or into the clutches of mutants.
Tasks to free captured stalkers are very difficult to complete without losing the fighters from the escort.
The game as a whole is excellent. There may be a lot of bugs, but they make the game more fun.