GSC Recreation World has provided the meatiest look but at its long-awaited upcoming open world shooter, S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl, with an prolonged developer deep dive, due to which a bunch of recent particulars have emerged on the sport.
The developer has, as an illustration, confirmed that S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2’s large open world goes to be divided into 20 distinctive areas, with every having their very own environments, structure, residents, anomalies, and extra.
The map will even encompass areas that gamers will discover acquainted when you’ve performed the unique S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R trilogy, although you can too count on some components of these areas that have been beforehand inaccessible to now be opened up within the upcoming sequel. In the meantime, some areas within the recreation are going to be based mostly on their real-world counterparts within the precise Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, with some areas being barely tweaked and tailored for the sport, and others being recreated precisely as they’re.
GSC Recreation World has additionally confused as soon as once more simply how central participant selection goes to be in S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2. The shooter intends to provide gamers near-complete freedom in the place they will go, what they will do, and the way they will go about totally different duties.
That may lead to gamers experiencing barely totally different tales, coming throughout totally different quests, assembly totally different characters, and the like. As per the builders, a single playthrough of S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 received’t be sufficient to see the whole lot that it has to supply, which implies you’ll must play by means of it a number of instances to see all of its quests, meet of all of its characters, and the like.
That may, as you may think, imply there’s loads of story content material within the recreation to get by means of. In line with GSC Recreation World, in truth, S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 has almost three hours’ price of recorded cutscenes, all of which have been shot within the developer’s personal movement seize studio.
As a part of its deep dive, GSC Recreation World has additionally showcased a complete mission from the sport, providing new particulars on the various anomalies you’ll encounter, the totally different sorts of weapons you’ll be utilizing, and extra. Learn extra on that by means of right here.
S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl is about to launch on November 20 for Xbox Collection X/S and PC. Microsoft is bringing the sport to its Gamescom sales space subsequent week, so count on extra particulars on it within the coming days.
