Clear Sky North American Release Details

[Mondopest]

From GamingShogun (http://www.gamingshogun.com/Article/1536/STALKER_Clear_Sky_North_American_Release):
Official Release:
Deep Silver, Inc, a publisher of interactive entertainment for PC and consoles, today announced they will publish the highly anticipated PC title S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky in North America. The game is expected to be available worldwide on August 29, 2008 and is developed by GSC Game World, a leading computer games developer.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is a survival FPS game for PC based on a 'what-if' scenario of the second Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident. The game is created as a warning to mankind against mindless play with technologies. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is the official prequel to the renowned S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game by the Ukraine-based GSC Game World studio. The game is set in 2011and brings forth the events to have preceded the third campaign of Strelok to the Zone center. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky introduces an alternative look onto the events of the original game and offers the player to try himself out as a mercenary s.t.a.l.k.e.r. in search of his own path in the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Looks like there was a change in publishers to boot.

[H.Bogard]

Want. Now.

[grandepolloloco]

Yeah very excited for this. I tried playing through the orginal like 4 times before I really got into it. I think it was the full lighting on my computer than ran like shit. Once I got a new pc and it ran good the game was so pretty and creepy at the same time.

[Devilturnip]

I keep almost picking up the first one through Steam and then not. Maybe it's time I buckled.

[randir14]

I keep almost picking up the first one through Steam and then not. Maybe it's time I buckled.

You should probably wait until Clear Sky comes out, it will have all the original areas plus more, and a ton of improvements.

[roboninja]

You should probably wait until Clear Sky comes out, it will have all the original areas plus more, and a ton of improvements.

Yeah, this is what I am doing, waiting for a package deal on both.

[Savok]

Hope this is on Steam for Australia (unlike the original).

[Libuke]

Their trailer showing of weather affects in directx has me excited for this game. I really enjoyed the orginal one even for all its faults. I should fire it up on my new laptop and see if it can run it any good.

[Libuke]

Their trailer showing of weather affects in directx has me excited for this game. I really enjoyed the orginal one even for all its faults. I should fire it up on my new laptop and see if it can run it any good.


Sorry for double post but can't edit here anymore. By directx I mean't directx 10.

[Devilturnip]

You should probably wait until Clear Sky comes out, it will have all the original areas plus more, and a ton of improvements.

Too late. Ah well.

[digitalErich]

I've been resisting the urge to buy the original as well, hoping there will be some kind of package deal on Steam. Are they going to improve the original content in any way (graphics, AI tweaks) with the expansion?

[Varsity]

These are worldwide release details, not American. Why do I keep correcting headlines these days? :p

[walkstheplanes]

The whole p.e.r.i.o.d. b.e.t.w.e.e.n. e.v.e.r.y. l.e.t.t.e.r. gets really distracting in that quote.

[Wedge]

Do want. Also: get the first Stalker. I believe Clear Sky will have 50% new and 50% old/remixed areas. All the areas from SoC won't be in Clear Sky, and the story will not be the same.

In other news: Today I got the movie the game is loosely based on (Stalker, by Tarkovsky). I was not in the mood for a Russian 3 hour symbolic heavy art film though. I should read the novel also, as I'm told it is good.

[Shifter]

I wish this game was co-op.

[Hawggy]

I wish this game was co-op.

Oh gawd yes. What a wet dream.