S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky Gets Steam Power

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky will be available for digital download worldwide exclusively on Steam. The game is currently slated for simultaneous release on Steam and retail outlets later this year. Clear Sky is the official prequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, and many people would be really glad if they played it right now.

As a prequel, the game is set one year before the events in Shadow of Chernobyl, in 2011, when a group of stalkers reaches the nuclear power plant and triggers the cataclysm: everybody gets infected, people die, other people turn into monsters and nobody knows the term of "friend" anymore. Still, groups exist and hostilities for the new territories, artifact fields and spheres of influence flare up among them. What new challenges await stalkers within the depths of the new zone? Why do anomalous outbursts continue to rattle the Zone, and what can be done to stop them? Stay tuned and you'll find out! Oh... I meant: wait for the game, play it, and you'll find out. Ta-tam!

The hero of this game is a mercenary, the player, the good guy gone bad or vice-versa - it's up to you to call it as you see fit. And, as expected in a prequel, you will get the chance to experience all the events that happened until the beginning of the original STALKER game. I, personally, greatly anticipate the prequel of this prequel, as a flower-picking, bug-squashing, game. Prequels rule!

Whatever. The game looks better than the original, allows the player to repair its armor and weapons, and NPCs to throw grenades and many more, ready to prove that creepy horror shooters are not dead and they're doing better than ever. And of course they do, since they got Steamed. Still waiting for the official release date. Or some new screenshots, a candy, anything.