

In the marketing for previous Stalker games, the focus was almost always on the Zone and the dangers that inhabit it. Not much time was given to getting to know individual characters and their own stories. While there have always been a lot of similarities between the Stalker and Metro games, the new Stalker 2 trailer seems to bridge the gap more than ever. Among these groups are the Stalkers, guides and fortune-hunters who risk the dangers of the Zone for anomalous items of incredible value called Artifacts. Now populated by mutants, monsters, and physics-defying anomalies, the Zone is host to several human groups seeking to contain or exploit it. In the game's backstory, a second explosion occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant twenty years after the historical disaster, causing strange effects throughout the Zone. The Stalker series is set in the Zone, an alternate history version of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It wasn't until 2018 that GSC Game World confirmed that the new title was under development once again. Stalker 2 was first announced in 2010, but was cancelled two years later. The original Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl released in 2007, and was followed by sequels in 20. One game to receive a brand new trailer was S.TA.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chernobyl, GSC Game World's atmospheric survival-horror sequel. E3 2021 is in full swing, bringing a tidal wave of gaming news and announcements.
