The new trailer for Stalker 2 also features deadly anomalies.
Many games were shown at the Xbox Showcase, including a new trailer for Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl. We not only have the video for you, but also a detailed analysis of what was shown, in case you’re on the go and can’t watch the two-and-a-half minute film right away.
Would you rather watch? We thought, here you go:
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New trailer for Stalker 2: The Zone has never been more beautiful – or more dangerous!
A beautiful game world full of deadly dangers
The subheading sums up quite well what we see in the trailer. This is not news, but it is reinforced: Stalker 2 will inherit the great strength of its predecessor and offer a fascinating, beautifully staged game world in which every step could be your last.
This becomes clear at the beginning of the trailer, as the stalker looks into the gun barrel of another zone resident. We don’t know what he says, as the entire video is spoken in Ukrainian. But it doesn’t matter, as ten seconds later a Aha!
-Moment: We step out into the irradiated expanse of the zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Impressive: the density of vegetation. Grass sways gently, leaves fly through the air, the anomaly moves gently back and forth… Wait, the anomaly? Oh yes, the strange and, above all, deadly phenomena cannot be missing in Stalker 2 either.
We also have some of the most exciting moments from the trailer ready for you as screenshots:
What else do we see in the new trailer?
- Basic PDA: For a split second we see the map of the game world, which we can access again via PDA. The device looks very reminiscent of its counterpart in the first Stalker.
- Steel and concrete: On a run-down factory site, the stalker gets ready for a gunfight with bandits. Here, too, it becomes clear that the atmosphere of the predecessor has been brought into the modern age well, despite the much more modern graphics.
- Mutants…dogs? The stalker uses a shotgun to kill some mutated creatures.
- Screw loose: We can throw screws again to find anomalies instead of stepping on them. But to be honest, many of the anomalies are hard to miss, as the trailer also proves several times.
- My knife? Your knife? At the end of the video there is a duel of life and death. In which chest will the knife end up? To us, this looks a lot like an in-game cutscene.
- Dangerous environment: Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that
fresh air is healthy
! The gigantic hurricane that is moving right towards the Stalker and probably exceeds every fine dust scale proves the opposite! Such storms are supposed to be a regular occurrence in the game world of Stalker 2. - refuge: We see one of the hubs for the first time in Stalker 2. In these refuges we find clients, traders and other characters. What is particularly impressive here is the wealth of detail in the game world. Just take a look at how detailed the traders’ displays are.
The release of Stalker 2 is still scheduled for 5. September 2024 A good sign? That is questionable, because when we were able to play the first-person shooter at gamescom last year, the main negative thing we noticed was the poor performance. So we can only hope that the almost year of development time has turned things around.
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