In a very nice shock as we speak, GCS Sport World launched all three Stalker video games on Xbox consoles.
The video games dropped throughout the Xbox Accomplice Preview broadcast, and you’ll seize all three of the first-person-shooter survival horror titles in a bundle known as the Stalker: Legends of the Zone Trilogy.
S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. Legends of the Zone Trilogy – Launch Trailer | Xbox Accomplice PreviewAccessible for each Xbox One and Xbox Collection X/S (through backwards compatibility), the Legends of the Zone bundle will run you $39.99, or your regional equal, and consists of Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Name of Pripyat. In the event you don’t need the bundle, you possibly can choose up every sport individually for $19.99 or your regional equal.
Regardless of problems stemming from the Warfare in Ukraine, resulting in staff relocations, coping with cyberattacks, and dealing between a number of nations, GSC Sport World and its companions at Mataboo labored laborious to make sure the console launch faithfully maintained all parts from the originals, permitting you to expertise Chornobyl’s harrowing exclusion zone as supposed.
With the ports, you possibly can anticipate native controller help for console interfaces, corresponding to a weapon choice wheel, alongside adjustments to the aiming system and menu navigation to help Xbox controllers.
Later this 12 months, the staff will launch a patch for Xbox Collection X/S that can deliver extra graphical enhancements and different options. The console variations can even have mod help through mod.io, but it surely gained’t roll out till later because the staff remains to be engaged on the function.
Mixing completely different genres like horror, first-person shooter, exploration, and immersive sim, the Stalker sequence takes place in an alternate model of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine. The plot facilities on a second Chornobyl catastrophe in 2006 that altered organic, chemical, and bodily processes, inflicting the precipitation of unnatural anomalies, artifacts, and mutants.
Taking up the function of a Stalker, an explorer of the Zone, you’ll not solely cope with mutated wildlife and artifacts with extraordinary properties corresponding to anti-gravity or radioactivity absorption however completely different factions, bandits, and army forces as you attempt to full your main objective: attain the middle of the Zone.
All three Stalker video games are fairly nice, and you must think about giving them a go in case you haven’t already. Plus, with Stalker 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl out on September 5, you would possibly want to get acquainted with the franchise earlier than it’s launched.
Whereas Stalker 2 is a direct continuation of the plot and a standalone title, figuring out the earlier occasions and characters would enable you to get pleasure from sure story moments, nods, and potential Easter eggs higher.