S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Year 2011. Five years passed since the Second Disaster, which eclipsed the events of April 1986. The Zone is shaken by frequent and powerful blowouts, which move anomaly fields, opening new routes to…
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is a role-playing (rpg) developed by GSC Game World, released 22 August 2008 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 14.3 hrs to finish.
What S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by GSC Game World and released in 2008. It was published by Deep Silver. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on X-Ray Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A prequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky returns to the Zone, the perilous forbidden territory surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where mutants, deadly anomalies, and roving factions of scavengers known as Stalkers vie for survival and the priceless artifacts the region produces. The player takes on the role of Scar, a hardened mercenary who survives a catastrophic emission of lethal energy and is taken in by the scientific faction called Clear Sky. Aligned with this group, Scar is given a dangerous task: to track and stop a band of Stalkers pushing ever deeper toward the heart of the Zone, an incursion that threatens to destabilize the fragile balance of the…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, open world and stealth. It supports multiplayer for up to 32 players online. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is the second of 13 entries we hold in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. It arrived a year after S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. The next entry was S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat in 2009. Its critic score of 82 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl at 87.
How it was received
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 244 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 14.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 23.3 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz / AMD XP 2200+, 512 MB RAM and 128 MB DirectX® 8.0 compatible card / nVIDIA® GeForce™ 5700 / ATI Radeon® 9600. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky launched on 22 August 2008, within three weeks of Braid, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Spore and Castle Crashers. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Braid, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Spore, Castle Crashers.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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