S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

why does everyone hate CS? its probably the hidden gem of the franchise.

Phenomenal game. There is a reason it's a classic! Very immersive survival horror. Just buy it, you won't regret it!!

Ograłem. Było fanjo tak za Naznaczonym biegać. i kopanie Monolitowców nie najgorsze.

The STALKER franchise is my alltime favorite. On par with the Metro games.

It's a very old game. BUT - there are mods that fix almost everything.
Actually there are a LOT of mods.

For the price its worth it. Very much so.

Such an incredible letdown compared to Shadow of Chernobyl

Mixed feelings about this chapter.
It doesn't have the same creepy and eerie atmosphere as the first one. It's more focused on war between factions, which in my opinion it really doesn't work.
Your allies are so bad and suicidal that they keep loosing control of the outposts you claim, putting you in an endless loop where your presence is required at the same time in multiple locations across the map. So you constantly have to hear "Please help, where are you, do something!".
So I started to hate that feature and only focus on the main story.

Pros:
- Parts of the game is fun, if you ignore the side quests.
- Interesting story.
- Atmospheric and immersive.

Cons:
- Badly optimised and very buggy.
- You'll need to save very frequently because of the bugs.
- Side quests are very boring and repetitive. They add nothing to the game.
- A.I. is bad, enemies are bullet sponges on higher difficulty.

cordon machine gunner.

this game aint got the best graphics but ngl its pretty fun to play dont regret buying it would recommend.
if you like this give a try to STALCRAFT:X

This is more relating to my second play through I've done for this game.

I find more annoying things in this game than good things with clear sky, but for some reason i love it.

I usually try to stick with Vanilla with older games but you really do need the SRP mod, without it you'll just end up getting soft locked in the story. The faction system is cool when it wants to work, but I feel that exploration was more of a chore in this game than SoC and artifact hunting isn't as good. But even will all that i still had a good time.

Solid 7/10 if you wanna get into STALKER Series then its a cool game, but honestly get any of the other one's and skip this one if you don't feel like dealing with janky gun play and constantly dealing with MGs and Nades in front of you.

хуйня пройшов 85-90% гри, після чого гра тупо вилітає. Єбав у сраку.

One recommendation: No matter what... just use AP rounds in ANY rifle or SMG, and when in the CNPP: USE EXOSKELETON and the PK-74 (Upgraded), believe me... its gonna make all less painful.

I was right to delay playing this one for years and years. We'll put it that way

Would only play this to get the context on what the world just happened on the first game. After that, I don't see a reason why you would torture yourself again (the grenades... THE GRENADES).

I love not being able to hit someone 20 feet in front of me. PEAK GAME!!!

this game is very buggy. without a mod this game is sucks

og STALKER trilogy so peak. play if you cant run the new one!

Great game. Best new mechanic was gun modifications & actual faction quests. Not as legendary, but still almost improving in most things (aside from story) and linear end missions.

I'm not a tech savvy person and I haven't researched how to make this game playable. It's glitchy and buggy to the extreme. Whenever I get around to this game again, maybe I'll change the review.

This game is pretty much just a worse Shadow Of Chernobyl with the highlight of it the entire game definitely being Limansk. The faction system is cool but isn't fleshed out nearly enough to be that interesting. I enjoyed the prequel feel of exploring a map I already knew but at times thought it was a bit lazy. Limansk made the entire game worth playing, the depraved and hopeless feeling of it was palpable throughout the entire experience. It was similar to Pripyat but a much heavier feeling of it being over. I feel like the story could have been much more interesting if we had seen some sign of clear sky in SOC or COP (besides the body armor) but since we don't it's pretty hard to care about the story or lore of a faction in the zone that never shows up again.

Overall Clear Sky is not a bad game but it is certainly the middle child of this franchise. It has neither the amazing story of SOC nor the refined gameplay of COP, regardless of this it's still worth playing just for some of that classic stalker kino.

Worst of the trilogy. After you enter Limansk, it becomes worse by every minute.

The game is very good until Limansk, sadly the AI is far worse than in SoC or CoP, but it helps a lot during the last section. Exploring, artifact hunting and the gunplay is good, the bleeding is terrible (you can bleed out from 3 bullets, and ofc most of the time 1 bandage isn't enough to stop the bleeding).
Enemies love grenades, you won't be able to kill anyone with it though... I wasn't able to finish the game, gave up after the hospital section, it was just too repetitive and unfair (enemies spawning behind you, allies do nothing, etc.).

Overall, I had a good time with the game for the first ~29 hours, after I reached the Red Forest, it went downhill, after Limansk, it just sucked ass. It shows that Clear Sky came out after the first game about a year later, it was rushed.

If it wasn't for the last few missions, I would recommend it. The new zones are far better, than the ones in CoP. It isn't so much worse than the other 2 game and FAR BETTER, than the Heart of Chernobyl.

If you are interested in the story, I don't recommend it, if you just want to explore, I do recommend it, just buy it when it is on sale. The best option is to play Call of Chernobyl, which has every zone from the first 3 games, so you can experience the red forest, limansk and the swamps of course.

It's got the cheeki, but it needs more breeki imo, 7/10

It must be hard to not make a modern stalker not feel like a unity asset dump, og stalker is where its at

Good game with the post USSR vibe

For anyone who's thinking of buying this game, I highly recommend installing the latest version of (at the time of me writing this) The Sky Reclamation Project (SRP) community patch + the Optional Features recommended by the developer marked with an asterisx (*) in the corresponding text file.

And after you've done that, go into gamedata/config/weapons, open every file starting with "w_" with Notepad++ or whatever text editor you use, look for a line called "time_to_aim" and set the number to "0", that'll fix the horrid gunplay.

Trust me, if you play Clear Sky without this, you're gonna have a miserable as hell experience.

With that all said, this isn't as great as Shadow of Chernobyl or Call of Pripyat, but it's still worth checking out.

bro wtf is wrong with this game AI and grenades.they keep spamming grenades man,i was fightting 12 bandits and 12 of them throw grenades at me AT THE SAME TIME.not to mention the shit ass accuracy of your guns and how little damage they deal.youre telling me that a guy wearing trench coat can take on 3 7.62s to the chest?while if i get hit once or twice my HP deplete imediately.i have no comment about the story but the gunplay sucks.save your money for call of pripyat and install gunslinger mod on it

Zombie got stuck in scientist base, cant get in anymore and i have to play trough the game all over again.

Best game ever!

ending was kinda hard but a decent game all around

Good old Stalker now with more anamolies that will crash the game(sometimes)

Clear Sky feels half-baked. It's still plenty enjoyable, especially the middle part - running around grabbing artifacts and causing issues is always a treat - but the gameplay feels disjointed, split between its more atmospheric play and the shooters it's emulating and catching an awkward valley in between them. Its ending was a mighty difficulty spike and oddly paced, rushing you through and through to an ultimately unsatisfying final fight. Worth grabbing on sale for a shorter romp, but it's the jankiest (and, in my experience, the buggiest) of the original STALKER trio.

Played nearly as much of this one as Stalker 2. First one i ever got and it scared the shit out of me as a tween but i got through that because of how badly i wanted to play this game (and metro 2033 first) and it helped me grow as a person.
At the time of the review going back to play it again. unmodded or not. prequel to the first game. feels to me that it has a really good intro to the stalker universe for new players.

Good game, just like it's predecessor. If you love abandoned Eastern European buildings and Swamps, our favorite bandit faction and Russian weaponry then yeah, this game is definitely for you.

With the small exception that Scar is made out of paper, He gets shot by a 9x18mm from so fucking far away and suddenly all my hp is being drained due to bleeding.

На Барахолке не подвал, а лес чудес. Зашел с деньгами - вышел без

Best game out of the og 3. Great map, gunplay, and story.
Cheeki Breeki!

its a fun game it might make you want to punch your screen but its a good game

Got the first 3 games for dirt cheap, but that does't excuse of bad and boring the first game was. That made me not even try to play more of this garbage universe.

very fun gameplay but bad ending

This is a very good game, and I think you should definitely give it a try. The fighting mechanics and graphics were impressive, but the guns were pretty disappointing. Despite that, the story was engaging, and overall, I had a great time playing it. I’m really glad I chose this game for my YouTube channel.

While I enjoyed most aspects of the game, I found that I only liked one or two of the guns I used frequently. The other guns felt ineffective for combat. Aside from that, the game was enjoyable, and I’m happy with my experience.

Sky Reclamation Project + Alternative Ballistics + Stalker Weapon Reanimation pack = peak vanilla+ experience, even stalker 2 doesn't reach this level of fun

Bleeding mechanics suck and the ending mission is bad, but what stalker game doesn't have a bad end mission? Take a TON of bandages for the end so you don't get softlocked. The game doesn't deserve the hate it gets. It's a really solid installment that is better than SoC in almost every way, the upgrade system was well done and the guns feel miles better. Pick this up, don't take it too seriously, and enjoy it for what it is - a game old enough to drive.

i know myself well enough to know when to uninstall a game to save my sanity so i did not finish this game

but everything up to the ending scene is very good and very fun and i hold it dear to my heart

Game gets better as time goes on, the final act is peak I just dislike the sudden ending. Many bugs anomalies but they can be easily avoided by saving a bunch (quick saves are risky, hard save always)

Great game, maybe not as solid as SoC or CoP, but it is still a solid experience. Play it on Master with no crosshair.

6.8/10

Main pros: Fun resource management, fun upgrade system, decently fun side quests and faction mechanics, decent story.

Main cons: EXTREMELY BUGGY; strongly recommend a bug fixing mod. Some examples of problematic bugs include bodies disappearing too quickly, faction wars mechanic breaking, optional quests not appearing, etcetera. Some traders have limited cash, weather emissions have a decently high chance to occur when moving to a new part of the map-- making you take shelter and afk for a fair bit until it's over. Also bullet travel is iffy-- gun play is fun despite being done poorly.

crashes, bugs, death loop saves, yet I still love this game

Clear Sky is the most unfortunate in the whole franchise. Nonetheless, the story is still engaging as it's related to the SoC narrative. If you liked the first game, this one is definitely worth playing, too, because despite the fact it's the most unsuccessful game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, the game itself isn't bad overall.

Unimpressive, felt slimmed down in comparison to Shadow of Chernobyl. The faction war system added some depth and more dynamics between the factions but it didn't amount to much. The story wasn't great either.

game peak!1
I love this game, It feels like a fan-game for some fucking reason but I don't mind.
You can join factions unlike SoC, repair and enhance your gear!
Don't expect shitloads of loot to be lying around for you to take like in SoC, good gear is harder to come by so the hoarder experience is even more real

the military base part is hard but you got a lot of good kits good for you

haters gone hate, i played SoC, gem just finished it, now playing clear sky. just as good and great addon to the story and lore, dont listen to those nerds, they hate it cause they aint it and are bad at the game, if you like stalker, play it