the reason I get this game be because of its overall concept of be able to explore a dangerous zone on earth . as I grow up in Eastern Europe , the atmosphere remind I at my experience during the communist era . I have play many FPS game and recently finish F.E.A. R , Doom 3 , hl2 , and Far Cry . the graphic , AI and overall game-play in s.t.a.l.k.e.r be pretty weak compare with any of the game mention above . the aus of the enemy be very poor , the game-play be cumbersome as you have to micromanage very many little detail , and read a lot of dialog text be annoying . during play , you will have to spend a large amount of time in inventory . the load time be very slow due to what it seem to be poor caching and memory management . the reason I believe that to be the case be that it even take a long time to go back to a recent quick-save . the slowness and other bug I encounter make I apply a patch that be release recently . the new patch break all my save game and I have to use a unlimited health trainer to speed up the process and get back to where I be . -lrb- waste about 2 hour -rrb- overall the game play be poor , and the support be terrible .