The game will receive a launch day release on Xbox Game Pass. The trailer ended with a look at a huge world that players will presumably be able to explore. The group appears to be a band of ragtag scavengers who try to watch out for each other. series, and the first one since 2009 when Call of Pripyat was released. The long-awaited sequel of Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl will be the fourth game released in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart Of Chernobyl is finally going to be released in 2022. The player character, who seems to be a full character rather than a player avatar, spent time seeking out residents of the game’s barren world. 2 sees you playing as a bounty hunter in the 'Zone', an irradiated area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant following a fictional second explosion in 2006. Initially announced in 2010, after more than a decade, several reboots, and lots of problems during development, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Players will also have to face mysterious, tornado-like bursts of energy that appear to be a common enemy of both the player and the environment’s irradiated creatures.Ī variety of nonplayable characters make the experience more colorful and add some humor. The player character can be seen gathering weapon pieces from the environment, which points toward a looting or scavenging mechanic. The game’s extended trailer features a variety of tools, including weapons and what appears to be a Geiger counter, a tool used to measure radiation. 2: Heart of Chernobyl starting today on the Xbox Store. You can pre-order your copy of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Players can fight irradiated monsters, explore different locales for secrets, and connect with a variety of nonplayable stalkers. We’re getting more and more excited as we get closer to the release date and there is still a lot to share. This will be the first new game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Previous games in the series have explored similar areas. In the trailer, the player character sits around a fire, talking with several companions in what appears to be the shadow of Chernobyl, where a nuclear power plant exploded in real life in 1986 and released a large amount of radiation.