I've put well over 40 hours into STALKER 2 this past week, grinding my way through the gigantic open-world survival horror shooter to get my review done for launch day. For all of that time, I played the game with its Ukrainian voice acting and subtitles; after all, it's the native language of the developers at GSC Game World who made it, and it's also the one that makes the most sense for a game set within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.
A colleague of mine, though, has been playing in English, and told me that dub of the game is pretty cheesy — an impression I also got when catching bits and pieces of dialogue watching video reviews of the Xbox and PC exclusive this morning. Curious, I booted up the game, switched the voicework over to English, and ran around a base full of NPCs to talk to.
