Stalker was on sale last weekend for $5 via Steam, and who can pass up the promises of such savings? It's a real change of pace from other shooters. It's like Oblivion meets Far Cry 2 with a dash of old school difficulty and impressive AI. The first mission really makes you feel like you earned your reward. I look forward to playing it more over this winter vacation.

Stalker was on sale last weekend for $5 via Steam, and who can pass up the promises of such savings? It's a real change of pace from other shooters. It's like Oblivion meets Far Cry 2 with a dash of old school difficulty and impressive AI. The first mission really makes you feel like you earned your reward. I look forward to playing it more over this winter vacation.

Amen, brother.

I think it's probably the best open-world shooter I've ever played.

I downloaded it at the weekend and I've dabbled with it once or twice (I'm not much of a PC gamer). Gotta admit, I like what I've played so far.

"I downloaded it at the weekend and I've dabbled with it once or twice (I'm not much of a PC gamer). Gotta admit, I like what I've played so far."

Here's a question:

Only one issue, I tried multi with this and every server's using the unofficially official 1.0006 patch. Steam's version is patched to the official 1.0005 patch. You'll have to do some...working around if you want multi.

Mercanis said:

"Here's a question:

What does the "handling" stat mean on the guns? The other statistics are pretty self explanatory but I'm having trouble understanding what "handling" does. Is it kickback? Is it how often the gun jams?

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It's really a shame not many people have played it, sure it has its hurdles, but once you get past that you've got an stellar game.

Yeah, I played my brother's copy (reason why I haven't yet played multi) twice through. I haven't tried Oblivion Lost or any other mods yet though.

The first mission really makes you feel like you earned your reward. I look forward to playing it more over this winter vacation."

Totally one of my favorite games, what a steal at $5.

I'm in the middle of playing it. It's kind of picking up, I just hope it picks up more soon because it was pretty boring in the very beginning.