Extremely anticipated: A brand new gameplay trailer for the extremely anticipated Stalker 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl has dropped, and it appears very spectacular. The sport has confronted a number of delays, most of which got here as a direct results of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the place developer GSC Sport World relies, nevertheless it’s nonetheless set to land subsequent 12 months.
Stalker 2 was first introduced again in 2018, virtually a decade after the final recreation within the collection, Stalker: Name of Pripyat, arrived. Whereas followers of the superb authentic video games have been happy, there was loads of outcry final 12 months following information that the sport would incorporate NFTs—non-fungible tokens have been nonetheless seen as the subsequent large (money-making) factor in gaming again then. Fortunately, the backlash led to a U-turn by the studio; it later confirmed that Stalker 2 would not have something NFT-related.
In January, GSC Sport World introduced that Stalker 2 would wish one other seven months of labor to get it prepared. That was earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine, which additional delayed the sport into 2023.
Just like the originals, Stalker 2 is an open-world survival recreation. It is set within the Exclusion Zone across the Chornobyl nuclear energy plant and is filled with risks, from anomalies and mutants to bandits.
The sport’s new trailer, titled Come to Me, was posted to GSC Sport World’s YouTube channel just a few hours in the past. The clip actually reveals off the beautiful Unreal Engine 5 graphics and atmospheric setting. There’s additionally a short glimpse of the stock administration system.
All that prettiness means the developer recommends gamers have a Radeon RX 5700 XT or Nvidia RTX 2070 Tremendous / GTX 1080 Ti graphics card of their system, although the minimal necessities are a Radeon RX 580 and GTX 1060 6GB. The sport might be accessible on the Epic Sport Retailer and Steam at launch, and, due to its inclusion on the service, is one more reason for folks to join PC Sport Cross.
GSC Sport World has relocated a few of its operations to Prague, in Czechia, because the warfare in Ukraine started. As such, it expects Stalker 2 will not expertise any extra delays.
In associated information, it was lately reported that Volodymyr Yezhov, a former GSC developer who labored on Stalker: Clear Sky, died in a battle close to Bakhmut.
