The gameplay is great, the sound design is almost as good, the game takes increadible amount of time to complete (33 hours, I had spent time doing some side quests too) and I found myself playing it a lot of time even after it, what I usually don't do. The graphics of the game isin't that good now days, but even my crappy computer was able to run it fine with some settings set to maximum. If not counting the easiest difficulty, you will die really easily, forcing you to think when you should fight or not. You need to heal yourself from wounds, though it only needs use button and nothing else to fix the wounds. You need to eat food or you will starve to death. NPC don't also some times attack mutants, which are trying to attack you. Unfortunely stalkers talk with '' Yo bro wuzz up?! '' style, which breaks the atmosphere a little. It looks like you're in a abandonded area filled with radiation, and feels like it. The atmosphere of the game is outstanding. You can roam around freely the exciting areas of the game, though you are limited to go only few places during the start of the game. You don't need to have played previous games. You are have to find out why helicopters have crashed to Tsernobyl, which is now filled with people hoping to become rich by finding rare artifacts. The story isin't really anything amazing.

Call of Pripyat is the third Stalker game in the series, which I had never played before. What could be more interesting real life place to make a video game about? Area of Tsernobyl of course! It's such a shame, that there barely What could be more interesting real life place to make a video game about? Area of Tsernobyl of course! It's such a shame, that there barely even is games about it, but at least it's still more than fresh place to make a game about.

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