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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl announces the U.S. release of GSC Game
World's long-in-development first-person shooter (thanks
Gamer's Hell):
AGOURA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI - News) today announced that critically-acclaimed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl has shipped exclusively for Windows PC. Offering a unique combination of First-Person Shooter (FPS) and Survival-Horror action, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl gives gamers unprecedented freedom to explore the devastated exclusion zone that surrounds the Chernobyl power plant following a second apocalyptic explosion. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is now available at retail outlets nationwide for the suggested price of $39.99.
About S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
In 1986, the world's most horrific nuclear disaster took place in Chernobyl. After subsequent unexplained explosions in 2006, a military exclusion zone is set up preventing access to the area. Stories of huge anomalous energy disturbances and sightings of strange creatures within the Zone are widespread. Players assume the role of a S.T.A.L.K.E.R., a mercenary paid by scientists and other undisclosed groups, who is trying to regain his memory. Players will experience a unique "Survival-Shooter" game that combines action, stealth, survival and Role-Playing Game (RPG) elements to create an incomparable experience in the Zone. Developed by GSC Game World, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl delivers an immersive storyline that seamlessly blends with a living, breathing, non-linear open-world environment featuring accurately modelled real-word buildings and locations from around the devastated Chernobyl power plant.
Riiiight, welcome to your own twilight zone.
Well, given that I presumably have much more experience with piracy than you, I think I'm more qualified to judge the reliability of pirated games. Let me break it down.
The pirating community is called "the scene." There are numerous groups who compete with one another in order to crack games first. Prestige and all. Now, in order to ensure some level of quality in these releases, there are rules and standards that have to be followed. All games must be retail source and live up to their label. A cloned image of a disc doesn't need to be cracked, but it must be playable through drive emulation or other means. A cracked game must be playable without any emulation or disc, but must also retain the exact same functionality of the uncracked game. If a group fails to meet these requirements, they are officially "nuked" until they release a fix or another group releases a proper.
Needless to say, I only get official scene releases. Now, if you are some newb who downloads games off BT or Kazaa, you may not be downloading these scene releases. As such, you may encounter faulty cracks. But that's due to your own inexperience more than anything else.
So yeah, properly cracked games are always as stable as the retail releases and sometimes more stable if the crack removes the obnoxious copy protection.
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