When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: GSC Game World) Those worries, in hindsight, were very stupid. I recently visited GSC Game World in Prague – wherehalf of the team has relocateddue to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – and in the three hours of Stalker 2 I got to play, the game became near-comical in how little it cares about the player. At one point I survived a tense shootout with three bandits, only to die when I couldn’t bandage a bleeding wound in time. Later, an attempt at hunting a band of wanted men for their bounties backfired when the sound of gunfire drew a pack of feral dogs, who decided I looked like the tastiest stalker of the group and tore me to shreds. There were other occasions where I didn’t even risk fighting, preferring to bribe bandits for a key lead rather than waste my limited ammo fighting them for it. Like everything in The Zone, Stalker 2 is deeply unforgiving – …
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