You’ll spend a decent chunk of your first few hours in Stalker 2 searching for Solder, but what’s the best thing to do when you find him?

STALKER 2’s solid gunplay picks up a lot of the slack in its combat’s faults. Whipping around a decked-out assault rifle with a nice red dot sight to make headshots easy, or pumping shells into a mutant from a fully modded shotgun and slowing its charge with their impact had me looking forward to those high-stakes, kill-or-be-killed situations.

Selling over 1 million copies within less than 48 hours from its launch, S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chornobyl has proven to be a success. With 17 years since the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl's release back in 2007,