
This doesn’t only apply to the main mission, the side missions also play a role here. The game awaits you with a total of 9 different endings, depending on which choice you make on the way to reactor 4 of the nuclear power plant. Like the other parts of the series, Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl is an open world first person shooter that harmoniously combines both horror and role-playing elements. More from them is revealed in the sequels to Shadow of Chernobyl: Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat. There are also the Mercenaries and rumors of another group, the Monoliths. In addition the factionless Stalkers called Loners and the neutral researcher called Ecologists. But there is the Military and the Bandit Faction who shoot at everything that doesn’t belong to them. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s are divided into mainly 2 groups that doesn’t get along very well: Freedom & Duty.
Intense multiplayer action, supporting up to 32 players.There are several factions that call the exclusion zone home. Advanced physics and dynamic lighting effects powered by the 'X-Ray Engine'. Dynamic day-night cycle and weather system, that directly impacts gameplay.
Realistic combat mechanics with accurate ballistic properties. Enemy Threat Evaluation AI system - NPC characters react to changes in environments and situations. Unique 'Survival FPS' gameplay, which combines action, stealth, survival and RPG elements - to create an incomparable experience in the Zone. An accurately modeled real-world buildings and locations from deep inside of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
An immersive storyline, seamlessly blended with a living, breathing, non-linear open-world environment. You will have to find your own way to survive in the Zone! Whatever their motivation, over time these individuals - Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers and Robbers - have become known as S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s. To sell them on the black market or trying to find the 'truth' behind the Zone. Mercenaries, bounty hunters and explorers ventured further and further into the heart of the Zone driven by reports of strange 'artifacts' imbued with anomalous energy. The Zone is still a dangerous place and a threat to all mankind. The Zone was cordoned off by the military, who would shoot on sight anyone foolish enough to get inside. Soviet authorities established an 'Exclusion Zone' around, but a second explosion hit the reactor in 2006, creating The Zone as we know it – dangerous place, filled with mutated creatures, deadly radiation, and a strange, anomalous energy. In 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.