Reviewers Liked
- The Zone is the most terrifying place to visit in any gaming department
- Lovecraft would be hard pressed to describe something so bleak and unforgiving
- The new eye candy such as DX11 and Tessellation
- Advanced 10.1 support
- New level of textures/lighting
- Fantastic sense of place
- Lots of tense exploration
- Numerous improvements over the previous games
- Some cool new enemies to take on
- Still charming despite it's flaws
- Great NPC interactions
- Better side jobs
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Some recycled props, but no where near as many as Clear Sky
- Ever present Xray "stutter" is still here when entering a spawn area for the first time
- Still taxing on older systems despite the leaps forward in stability and polish
- The story takes too long to get interesting
- Pripyat isn't as interesting as the surrounding wastes
- Eating mechanic is tedious
- Supplies are too available
- Predictable encounters
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