15 years after it released, STALKER is having a moment right now – this is why

A rush of wind rattles the bushes by your feet. Your Giger counter’s going nuts, and something’s… wrong with the air in front of you. It’s gathering into a tight, shimmering point. Like it’s forming a fist. You’ve got a Kalashnikov and all the canned meat a Stalker could eat, but you’ve been here before and you know this isn’t a fight bullets can solve. It’s an anomaly. You leg it. Anyone with a passing interest in the video games

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