Highwang is more experienced with the game than me but usually plays Complete.
My co-commentators are JigglyJacob and Highwang. Extra videos of Complete, the Arena, etc, are possible down the line. All endings will be shown off, as well as at least one of each type of side quest, so you can consider this a completionist run (sidequests are radiant quests, so there’s no way to do literally every one). Don’t worry, the funny ones never get fixed.
#ZONE OF ALIENATION MOD MOD#
Complete is an available mod that fixes a lot of the game’s bugs and adds new content, but I wanted to give an authentic experience, so the only mod I’m using is the bug-fixing Zone Reclamation Project. This is a straightforward playthrough of the standard version. Along the way, you just might uncover the secrets of the Zone and what exactly is the Wish Granter. With no other leads as to who you might be, you trek out into the Zone with only a pistol, a knife, a pair of binoculars, and anything else you can scrounge off the mountain of corpses you leave behind in search of this Strelok. You are “ the Marked One”, a stalker who turns up suddenly with amnesia, a tattoo on his arm saying “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.”, and a PDA that simply says “Kill Strelok”. Word spreads of the Wish Granter, something hidden within the Chernobyl Sarcophagus that can gift whoever finds it whatever they want. Mutated creatures, wonderous artifacts, and deadly anomalies appear throughout the Zone, and a group of explorers, scientists, and wealth-seekers called Stalkers jump right in to see what they can find. Many years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a second explosion occurs in the Exclusion Zone. Despite this, and in many ways because, SoC and its sequel Call of Pripyat are acclaimed cult favorites. You can die very quickly from the advanced enemy AI, wander into a grinder anomaly by mistake, miss most of your shots if you’re not close, use up all of your piddly carry weight without trying, or fail in some other spectacular bug/glitch-related way. The nuclear wasteland setting draws comparisons to Fallout, but SoC is not a fun romp where you can strap any minigun you see to your back to sell later: the game requires strategy and management from the player. SoC is an immersive FPS noted for its difficulty and realism. Come the new millenium, they took inspiration from both books and Tarkovsky’s Stalker, replaced the aliens with this mythology built around Chernobyl, and released one of 2007’s favorite cult hits. The Strugatskys’ book begins to show an eery prescience, and a mythology builds around the disaster.Īll of this was not lost on the Ukrainian game studio GSC Game World. Those who re-enter the Zone, particularly the scientists and engineers exploring the sarcophagus, are called Stalkers. The plant is hastily covered with a concrete “sarcophagus”. The surrounding area becomes highly irradiated and is closed off, dubbed the Zone of Alienation, the Exclusion Zone, or simply The Zone. In 1986, a blackout safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukraine causes its core to explode.
#ZONE OF ALIENATION MOD MOVIE#
The Strugatsky brothers in-turn novelise an early screenplay of the movie as Stalker. In 1979, legendary Soviet-Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky loosely adapts the book into the equally respected and influential film Stalker. Bouis translates the book to English for the first time, and it becomes an acclaimed and influential novel across nations.
#ZONE OF ALIENATION MOD MODS#
Oblivion Lost Remake/Vector of Alienation : 2 mods based on the old builds with a restoration of the story and game world originally planned by GSC before they changed all and released Shadow of Chernobyl.īoth mods use the same levels (some of them are really great and i think much better than the ones of the commercial game that you usually find in all freeplay mods) and quests, but Vector of Alienation has better writing while OLR has more side quests.In 1972, Soviet-Russian author/brother duo Arkady and Boris Strugatsky released the Sci Fi novel Roadside Picnic: Aliens arrive on Earth at six Visitation Zones, leave reality-warping artifacts and anomalies behind, and go right back to outer space, much like how people leave their trash behind after a roadside picnic fortune-seekers, dubbed “stalkers”, illegally enter these zones in search of artifacts and knowledge. OGSR 1.0.10 : a replay of the original Shadow of Chernobyl, but with much more side quests, more stories, improved everything (it has a really great engine with superb performance), etc. I usually like storyline mods more than freeplay one (even those with a storyline addon), here's a couple of standalone ones i really like :