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All member reviews for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Adult
April 9, 2008
 
DID YOU ACTUALLY PLAY IT!!!
HAVING COMPLETED THE GAME, I CAN TELL THAT COMMON SENSE HASN'T. HONESTLY, CALLING THE ARTIFACTS MAGICAL, ANYBODY WHO HAS REALLY PLAYED THE GAME WOULD TELL YOU OTHER WISE. a REALLY BIG MISTAKE IN THE COMMON SINCE REVIEW IS SAYING THAT THE GAME TAKES PLACE AROUND THE TINE OF THE ORIGINAL DISASTER, RIGHT OFF THE BAT CHARACTERS STATE THE THE DATE IS NEARLY 30 YEARS LATER ALSO, THE BODIES AREN'T DESTRUCTIBLE, IN OTHER WORDS THEY DON'T BLOW INTO CHUNKS, YOU CAN LAY 1000 ROUNDS INTO A CORPS ALONG WITH A GRENADE OR 2 AND THEY WON'T FLY APART. FURTHERMORE, THE GAME HAS HUGE AMOUNTS OF FACTS ABOUT THE ORIGINAL DISASTER AND THE GAME MAP IS BASED OFF THE REAL EXCLUSION ZONE, DOES THAT NOT QUALIFY IT AS AT LEAST MODERATELY EDUCATIONAL, YOU GUY'S REALLY NEED TO BE MORE ACCURATE.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
awesome game for adults
A good game with decent graphics

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
Abortion
This is a russian made game, that features charactors drinking whiskey to gain health. Unfortunately the game designers probably drank too much themselves. The game is an absolute abortion, from start to finish. And the game designers have been leaving super positive reviews on any media they can find. The game was never finished after 5 years of 'work' on it. It was rushed out to beat all the directX 10 games to market. It's Just a fustrating experience and a total waste of money.

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Adult
July 8, 2011
 
a detailed review
many parents here put the sexual behavior as a problem actually this game has no sexual behavior at all in the game. it is still not for children, special kids, immature people. this game has a lot of violence a bit of gore in the sence when yo stand to a concentrated radiation place seen like cristall balls will grab your charracter and blow it to pieces, you will see years old skeletons in the place but no guts are shown, and another thing that you can see right at the begginign of the game is that your charracter is driving a truck but in the trunk of the car he has 4 dead people in one of the dead people you see his skull face with blood and white eyes thatt scence last about 3-4 seconds. other wise besides that there is no gore. you can choose to betray your friends or not, you can by sneeking kill a soldier by stabing or shooting or you can leave him alone. this game you do have to kill bandits who will try to kill you in the game and at time you have a choice of mercy killing which all of the characters do in game. you can take their dead bodies weapons, food and bullets, even artifacts. but not their clothes nor money etc. there are monsters in game. profanity in english is low the highest you hear is the s-word(countless number of times),(a-word). no blasphemies. you will read in text that a group of anarchist killed a man walking naked because he was annoying but nothing nor the bodie is shown. as you walk in game you will see skeletons that have been there for years, some dead soldiers with blood, and some dead s.t.al.k.e.r.s. the reason the game is called stalker is because you stalk artifacts in order to make tons of money but in that there will be soldiers, bandits, stalkers, mercenaries that will stalk you in the game till they kill you.also in the game you have A Tatoo that the military set in your arm that says s.t.a.l.k.e.r. (shooter, trasspasser, loner killer, explorer, robber). the game is a copy of the bourne identity in the sense that your character does not know his name, nor anything about himself, all he knows is that he was sent to kill strelog, as he goes through the game he will see visions that remembered his past leading him to clues of who he was. there are non-canibalistic zombies in game that are well armed. a religious comflict is that there is a group called the monolith who prays to the monolith(no prayers are said in game nor heard), but they are shown kneeling and moving in circles kind off like the possed but they are not. in russian charrachters do say strong profanity, some of the strong profanity are (c-sucker, and s-work) some of these characters say it while dying in game. another problem in game is when there are characters dying you will hear them coughing while dying. monsters do eat from dead bodies,(no gore is shown but the sounds of it is implied. and you see the animals pulling a whole dead body to wards their camp so they can eat the dead body.) sometime you are given a choice whether to stalk someone or not, the choice is yours and you do not have to stalk in game in order to complete you game. drinking is heavy in this game you will see some stalkers and soldiers drinking to remove their radiation. if you are too greedy in game your character will die greedy as a punishment, if your character is a killer your character will die, but if your charater wants the zone to remove radiation then your charracter will be blind and in his imagination the zone has disapeared. if your charracter decides to destroy the zone and opposes the soviet government then you will save the zone from future radiation but in order to do that you have to shoot the liquids that have absorbed dead bodies that decided to give themselves for the zone to give more radiation.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 

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Teen, 17 years old
April 9, 2008
 
fools
Once again commonsense, you are brain dead fools. this game isn't even over-the-top violent. and the blood level of this game isn't high either. it's almost as if you people just look at the back of the box and write crap about what you think the game is like. This game has moments where it'll scare you, but does that make it mature? The graphics aren't that great so the violence is not even as realistic as you think. Common sense, get some real reviewers...

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