If you want you can also just go exploring on your own, maybe finding a hidden stash or two along the way. Most of the time is spent exploring the irradiated Zone while performing tasks for others that can net you some nice rewards like cash or weaponry. You run, you gun, you try not to get too irradiated. The gameplay in Clear Sky is understandably very similar to that of Shadow over Chernobyl. Your journey will take you through the entire Zone as you struggle to solve the mystery behind your condition. This time, however, you're playing before the events of Shadow over Chernobyl, as a mercenary who's lost the team he was guiding into the Zone and left with a bit of a pressing, fatal, problem. If you've played the original Stalker, you'll find the place oddly familiar, as many of the same locations are back. Realism has its place too, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky brings it in droves.Ĭlear Sky brings you back to the Zone, the irradiated remnants of an alternate-world Chernobyl where things have gone terribly wrong. Some times, however, you want to play a game where running forward blindly means getting killed. Sometimes you want to blaze through a slew of enemies as a Robocop-like unstoppable juggernaut that fears nothing but brings with him nothing but pain and carnage. Sometimes, big fancy worlds and arcade-like games have their place.
