The original legendary Stalker trilogy, still an open-world FPS icon, gets "refined for console" in surprise Xbox and PlayStation release
The Stalker games that started it all finally jump to consoles
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The original three Stalker games made a surprise appearance at today’s third-party Xbox showcase – surprising to those who hadn’t seen the leaks, anyway – with a “refined” trilogy bringing the games to consoles for the first time.
While this trilogy hasn’t officially been described as a remaster, original developer GSC Game World, which collaborated with Mataboo for the ports,says the games have been"refined for console" in several ways.
“Stalker has been a PC franchise for a long time, so the key priorities were concentrated around adapting the experience for consoles as a whole (including, but not limited to, native controller support for console interfaces),” explains Zakhar Bocharov of GSC. “We created everything from scratch, ensuring that the game was both easy to control and comfortable to play.”
Indeed,Stalker 2 is now …