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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is due out this fall on PC and Xbox Series X|S, following many years of waiting from the fans, as well as obstacles, including some as non-traditional as real-life war, challenging the Ukrainian team along the way. Today, GSC Game World is ready to provide a lengthy look at the game, particularly as it pertains to its massive open-world setting filled with real-life landmarks, sci-fi oddities, irradiated monsters, and a multitude of secrets to discover.
The 35-minute video showcases plenty of gameplay, often highlighting the freedom bestowed to the player. Many of a game’s traditional upgrades, such as new equipment, weapons, and accessories, are not gifted to the player for simply progressing through the Stalker 2 story. Instead, they will often be tucked away in various corners of the eastern European setting, and require curious players to seek them out.
The team also boasted that some locations returning from previous games in the series are now available to explore for the first time ever, such as a church cellar that was seen from the outside but never accessible. In Stalker 2, however, it and other places like it can be entered and scavenged. This level of detail is owed to the team’s mission to outdo itself. “We constantly had to look back on the success of the first games’ development,” game director Ievgen Grygorovych said, “because we can’t produce anything worse than that. We can only do better.”
