Bethesda, eat your heart out! This is how you do it! Excellent game, even for its age. But it can just be straight up UNFAIR at times. It's hard, wonderfully so. Rage-Quit levels of hard, so be wary! This is a game that requires some common sense; for example a stealth mission has you sneaking into a military base at one point, you're told the patrols are less after midnight but no one tells you that you'll wake up the sleeping soldiers if you try that early, instead waiting until 2am gives them time to fall deeply asleep, then you can sneak past. Several "puzzles" are solved by looking at them for a minute and actually thinking with your real world brain. Saving often, very often, is critical. Progress is hard won in the zone but the riches that await you there are worth the effort. Now, GET OUT OF HERE STALKER!

Bethesda, eat your heart out! This is how you do it! Excellent game, even for its age. But it can just be straight up UNFAIR at times. It's hard, wonderfully so. Rage-Quit levels of hard, so be wary! This is a game that requires some common sense; for example a stealth mission has you sneaking into a military base at one point, you're told the patrols are less after midnight but no one tells you that you'll wake up the sleeping soldiers if you try that early, instead waiting until 2am gives them time to fall deeply asleep, then you can sneak past. Several "puzzles" are solved by looking at them for a minute and actually thinking with your real world brain. Saving often, very often, is critical. Progress is hard won in the zone but the riches that await you there are worth the effort. Now, GET OUT OF HERE STALKER!