We continue with stories of video games that airsoft players may take interest as the month of May where plans of game publishers and developers are announced. In this case, another post apocalyptic game that was widely that had its last installment released almost a decade ago, have started development again. Sergiy Grygorovych who owns the Ukrainian game development company GSC, announced on Facebook last Tuesday, the 15th of May 2018 that they have restarted the development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2.

The STALKER series is a first person shooter that was first released in 2007. Starting with Shadow of Chernobyl, it was then followed by Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat. STALKER 2 was announced in 2010 but was cancelled in 2012. Various game publications gave the game when it was first released high marks for the gameplay but is mainly criticised for its story.

The announcement came as a surprise to the fans of the game who have given up that STALKER 2 would be released as it was 6 years ago when it was announced it was cancelled.

With the announcement that development is being started, with the exception of the year in which it STALKER 2 will be released, there were no further information revealed. These days, players expect more such as teasers and initial graphic work or screenshots to show that the developers are committed to the project.  The supposedly developers of the STALKER 2 when it was cancelled, put up their own game studio called Vostok Games and released the free-to-play Survarium.

STALKER was a unique game on its own as it was a sandbox environment allowing players to progress on their own. There are no restrictions with players able to kill anyone in the game, including other stalkers. In the Shadow of Chernobyl, there are multiple endings which are dependent on what the player has accumulated during the game as well as memories of the main character are put together.

STALKER 2 was supposed to be developed on a new multi-platform game engine that was written in-house by GSC. But with this announcement, Polygon reports that the Epic Unreal Game Engine 4 may have been licensed by the company thoughh it remains to be confirmed by GSC.

The STALKER 2 website is already up but it’s only a splash page, no further information can be gleamed from it for now.