"ALife" is a non-scripted AI where each AI has a "full life cycle" of tasks to accomplish everything from combat to rest, feeding, and sleep. You'll meet all kinds of enemies from bandits, military, to mutants. Weapon ballistics is realistic, ammunition and health is really scarce. It is set in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in a fictive time-line. It is extremely atmospheric, particularly due to: dynamic lighting, real-time day/light changes, weather effects, proper and layered skies. It is mostly outdoor, but has a few in-door levels as well. It is a very different kind of game though (I would call it hardcore survival horror, technically maybe FPS-RPG). STALKER was hugely ambitious but the original scope was let-down (particularly: maps were split into areas instead of one huge map) due to economic and other constraints from the publisher. No, there is not much similarities between SS2 and STALKER. It's a corridor-only shooter/rpg, and the lack of any kind of lighting just takes away from it today.
I'll be brutally honest, system shock 2 uses way more jump scares than the Stalker games do.Ĭurrently playing through System Shock 2 with HD mods - but even so, the atmosphere hasn't held up as well as when I played it in 1999. The jump scares are jump scares because they are often unexpected, not because the devs thought it would be funny to lock you in a cutscene that scares the hell out of you. And not only that, but all of them use the "a-life" system, so they aren't just there to make you jump, they wander around the map and actually try to sneak up on you if they notice you. The monsters are designed to really, really make you jump. The game is scary, but in more of a "NOPE! Not going in that place!" kind of way. Some kind of mysterious beast in the sewer. I have only played the vanilla game (can't remember which one) few hours, but it seems like the horror is based on the worst kind of horror: jump scares. Maybe that's the problem, at least for some: zombies. The atmosphere of these games is mindblowing, and nothing feels better than escaping a zombie infested house with only a knife and getting enough money to buy amazing weapons. I think the mod is fantastic and turned an amazing game into my favorite horror fps. Now try Call of Prypiat with the Misery mod.
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