Besides Viva Piñata and Gears of War, there has not been any other major announcement this year for PC gamers at this year’s E3. But now, GSC Game World has announced a new game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is a prequel that brings the players one year prior to the events of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game in 2011.
Here are the details of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky:
- A group of stalkers has for the first time reached the very heart of the Zone, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and brings about a cataclysm on the edge of a disaster. An enormous blowout of abnormal energy changes the Zone. There are no more reliable and relatively safe roads. The entire levels vanish in the outbursts of anomalies. Stalkers and even expeditions die or end up sealed on the lost territories. New areas, which remained unknown since the time of the Zone emergence, appear on the Zone map. The Zone continues to shake with blowouts. The Zone is unstable. The anomalous activity is at its maximum.
Changes of the Zone map known to stalkers shake the fragile balance of forces in the Zone. Among the groupings, there flare up fighting for the new territories, artifact fields and spheres of influence. There are no more old enemies or friends – now everyone is for himself. The Factions War has started between the groupings. The protagonist is a mercenary who appeared at the edge of the opposition between stalker factions, Strelok and even the Zone itself. The main character will have to play the key role in the events, which led to creation of the Zone up to the point from which the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game begins.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is scheduled to release in the first quarter of 2008. The game promises to be as amazing as the first one and will provide answers to questions such as why did Strelok end up in the death truck and what happened to Strelok prior to that?