So, been playing Lost Alpha on my new PC lately, and having a lot of fun! Posted a bunch of screenshots
hereReview: Awesome, totally mindblowingly awesome new and redone maps and environments. Original STALKER games had cool maps, but Dezowave has fucking outdone itself. Just play it and see.
Pretty cool new features, modding and repairing weapons, lots of new stuff, including scary new mutants, a new faction or two, a few new weapons, somewhat extended story (that i can't comment on much, not that far in the game yet) and so on.
Still fun as ever to shoot stuff, yet to find a FPS game, where the guns feel as great as in this one.
But.
Entirely insufficient open world features. The maps might be awesome and much larger and more varied, with tons of tunnels and other cool stuff... but they're lifeless and empty. Only a few preset points for spawning mutants/enemies, with mutants seemingly bound to a short leash at their center, unable to even pursue enemies outside of their zones. Little in the way of dynamism. A-life is bound in heavy chains. Very little to do, apart from chasing the main story and doing a few tiny side-quests here and there. Maybe this will be developed further on, but i dunno really. Huge potential for mods to deal with this, though. A-life is there still, just needs to be unleashed.
Still, an awesome game, a must-play, since it is free and actually entirely stand-alone.
