Stalker 2 details
Publisher GSC Game World / Microsoft
Developer GSC Game World
Format PC, Xbox Series X/S (reviewed)
Platform Unreal Engine 5
Release date Out now
I would argue that Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is more than a mere video game: it’s a full-blown cultural artefact. That’s certainly true for anyone who comes from developer GSC Game World’s homeland of Ukraine. 2007’s original Stalker game, a survival-shooter set in the Exclusion Zone around the Chornobyl nuclear reactor, became a touchstone of Ukrainian culture as the country forged an independent identity when the USSR collapsed shortly after the Chornobyl disaster.
