This post-apocalypticish, sci-fi’ish FPSWEFRPGAWOAFLEDS (First-Person Shooter With Elements From Role Playing Games Along With Other Awesome Features Like Eating Diet Sausages) has been been in and out my gaming-life since it was released.
You play as a Stalker. A salvaging, Terminatorly slaughtering, fascist fanatic with a gun, a knife and little rocks (called “Artefact’s”) that gives you superpowers, that aren’t really super. You kill bandits, ‘Loners’ (LOL, EMO-ANNIHILATION FTW) faction members, military, military elites, military rookies, military rookie elites and then mutants. Lots and lots of mutants. From the cute, skinny blind dog to the huge motherfucker called “Pseudogiant”. Granted, it is pseudo gigantic but “Pseudoabdomen” would’ve fit better. Because, basically, it’s an over sized human abdomen with thick thigs (must’ve been an American) and eyes where the intestines should’ve been. And, no, it does not have a ‘pseudopenis’.
Alright, the story is pretty straight forward.
You are found in a truck that kasploded, your PDA says ‘Kill Strelok”, a fat man called Sidorovich wants to rape you and then charge you for it, and to prevent that you must get to the center of The Zone before anyone else. Oh right, The Zone. Lemme keep it simple:
You know the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone? No? Wikipedia it, and add the pseudopenis, mutants, people, gravitational disturbances and zero women to it. THAT’S “The Zone” in STALKER.
Now, back to the story.
The fat “trader”-guy, Sidorovich (Is it only me that thinks of Coca-Cola Zero when I hear that name?), eventually tells you to “mega-pwn” some military rookie elites in something called Agropom. Agropom, what the fuck. That’s like a mixture of “Agriculture” and “Pommes Frites”. Which is, to be honest, quite an awesome combination. Anyway, you afterwards go to “The Bar” which is, no, not a huge fucking bar but a city. And then you go into the bar in The Bar and talk to the barkeeper called Barkeep. Barkeep does not bartend, it seems. Because he sells motherfucking guns. And small amounts of Vodka, but as it seems that nobody ever runs out of vodka and that vodka seems to cure disease in The Zone; His business is only powered by you, and you alone. Damn, boy. And you can’t even shoot him.
In fact, your character must become so fucking overwhelmed everytime he enters the bar in The Bar that he, being completely awestruck, is unable to pull out his guns or even his binoculars. Fuck, if you slaughter everyone and walk down into the bar in The Bar and everyone opens fire on you; YOU’RE FUCKING AWESTRUCK BY THAT TOO!
That reminds me, if you stick your gun in NPC’s faces they won’t talk to you. I haven’t tried sticking it in their feces, but I think they’ll turn hostile. Anyway, if you save a guy when he’s dying he becomes your friend and you can prod your mighty machine gun of doom into his eyes all you want. Even if you shoot him, he just basically goes “OKAY, MARKED ONE! YOU SERIOUSLY INJURED ME, AND I AM NOW BLEEDING TO DEATH. YOU HATE ME AND WANT TO KILL ME! WE’RE THROUGH!!“ , instead of shooting back. Yeah right, like that happens in Iraq.
Back to the story. Once you talk to Barkeep, he wants you to go into “X18″. Wowness, that sounds clichéd. So you kill this bandit guy to get the key, you go down, it’s real creepy and in the end…
Dum dum dum duuum. . .
——–THE PSEUDOPENISGIANT——–
It’s real fucking easy to kill. And then you walk into a room where you see Down-struck aliens in tubes, and you collapse and wetdream. Just kidding, they wouldn’t want to risk a Hot Coffee-case. Anyway, you fight out blah blah, and suddenly you have to go to X16. What the fuck, another “X”-lab. Double-clichéd, that’s a bit more rare. So you kill zombie-things and turn off this HUGE MOTHERFUCKING BRAIN THAT EMMITS PSI-EMMISIONS AND KILLS YOU IF YOU DON’T WATCH OUT,and then you get the fuck out.
Guess what’s next:
X10!
But, oh no! This little bitch got the scary MONOLITH CULT protecting it. You just shoot some more, and before you know it you’re in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and die. You also find out that you’re actually Strelok, and it was all just a big mistake. Touché.