[News]

Hi all,

We have just published a review of *S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky*. If you
could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.

*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/09/12/stalker-clear-sky/1


*Picture:*
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/09/stalker-clear-sky/fp_img.jpg


*Quote:
*/Quite simply, the game itself may be OK (though not exceptional) but
the actual experience you are buying is just awful. It doesn't work and
if we'd have paid for it instead of just getting a review sample then
we'd feel angry, cheated and disappointed. We'd take the game back and
get a refund straight away because this product is broken, however we're
sure that a patch (or many) in the next few weeks to months to fix it
into a playable state. The problem is, there's absolutely no guarantee
of this.

Are there going to be patches released later to correct these issues?
Probably, and the fanboys out there (like Rich, ha!) will wait blindly
for it, but even then there's no guarantee and anyone who throws an
argument like that up as a defence is missing the point. Patches are
acceptable to correct certain issues, but this isn't the case of a
simple driver conflict affecting a minority of systems. We still found
problems on a freshly created, clean system and under a variety of
hardware configurations. These are constant, unpredictable and
unavoidable errors in the code.

When you get right down to it our job is to tell people if this is
something they might enjoy and should spend money on. Our experience
with //Clear Sky is that it rarely works and we wouldn't spend money on
it for exactly that reason, even if the game itself is OK. There are
better games coming out to look forward to and splash the cash on, so
look it up in a couple of months and see if the patches have arrived,
but don't touch it until then if you know what's good for your sanity./
*

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net