I’ll never forget the first time I stepped into Stalker’s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. I had just built my first gaming PC and was ready to try out some of the best Steam games that I had previously missed out on as a console player.
Part of the reason I switched from console to PC was because I wanted to try out more first-person shooters and Stalker: Shadow of Chornobyl was like nothing I had ever played before. Sure, it was a bit rough around the edges but I was immediately swept up into the desolate wasteland that was the Zone and even years later, I still think about my experience playing the first Stalker from time to time.
