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Heart of Chornobyl was first announced — and the time for its release has finally come. Today, we’ll get to play it on both PC and Xbox Series X/S. However, before you get started, there are some things you’ll likely want to know to make sure everything goes smoothly.

It is a shame then that in Stalker 2, A-Life 2.0, works against the fantastic worldbuilding and characters as the denizens of the zone appear to enact bizarre suicide rituals where they agree to kill each other in a small circle so that they may offer you up a huge amount of loot.

I fired my gun and watched the pink mist vent from his skull, but as he fell, another man with a gun – ready to go, about to die. He goes down and out comes another. And another. And one more. I still see the men when I close my eyes,

For fans of hardcore shooters or punishing post-apocalypse games, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is truly incomparable. Unfortunately, due to a litany of bugs, it's the greatest game you shouldn't play right now.

When developers leave you to figure things out for yourself amid dangerous enemies that can kill you on a moment’s notice, rarely giving you an easy way out of a mess, it becomes clear that the survival instincts embedded in the STALKER series are very much alive in the long-awaited STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl.