STALKER 2’s solid gunplay picks up a lot of the slack in its combat’s faults. Whipping around a decked-out assault rifle with a nice red dot sight to make headshots easy, or pumping shells into a mutant from a fully modded shotgun and slowing its charge with their impact had me looking forward to those high-stakes, kill-or-be-killed situations.

Heart Of Chornobyl takes you back to the unforgiving Zone, where you play as Skif, a lone Stalker navigating the radioactive wasteland to make his mark. Between deadly mutants, hostile factions, and the harsh world,