That ad rocks. =) 

Wow. Runs very slow for me though (well with Wine). Nice details etc. I'll need to find some "impulse 9" cheat though to trash the whole map.

http://voxelstein3d.sourceforge.net/ 

kinda cool! Haven't seen voxels for ages. What was that game that used them, Outcast? And there was an rpg too.

Just googled Outcast, it looks pretty good for a 1999 game!
http://www.quandaryland.com/2006/pix2006/Outcast1b.jpg

Then I remembered the voxel rpg I played was called Hexplore, and I remember that looking good too, but apparently my memory has completely deserted me:
http://www.vollversion.de/bilder/197_2_full.jpg

Oh dear. 

I'm not sure Outcast uses voxels, there's a load of sites saying it does, but surely it just uses heightmapped terrain? 

its both voxels and polys (for models)
it has bumpmapping, bump+reflection on the water, AntiAlasing and DepthOfField - all in software running pretty fast on a 400mhz p3 

I must have been running a P233 at the time, and I don't remember it running that badly on that even! 

still everyone drowned in that darn pool right after the start. 

Picked this up for 5 pounds yesterday. Sat up till 3:30 playing it! I'll tell you what it is to me: Half Oblivion and half Half-Life.

I dont like the Oblivion elements (crappy animation) but I love the Half-Life side. Very atmospheric, addictive RPG game-play, non-linearity.

Gameplay seemed a bit unfair at points. For a game called Stalker you would have thought it would be a bit easier to stalk things!

Good fun none-the-less! 

I think I have to get it, don't I. Dirt cheap bizzle.

Still playing Gothic3 BTW. Only just discovered you can dig up some graves to get more cash. Woot. 

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Very misleading - its neither
Yeah its a nonlinear realistic/sci-fi shooter with some open gameplay and huge open maps. And a dash of RPG elements.

Its probably the best game from the previous year, best PC action game for sure. Unless you totally hate shooters and cant stand freedom and nonlinearity - its highly recommended.
Despite all the shortcomings its the most enjoyable and immersive game Iv played in some years. 

Im enjoying it. I think the game engine looks and feels a lot like the oblivion engine (better though, the environmental effects are unbelievable), one of it's biggest downsides is the facial animation. literally the animators must have just turned a blind eye to it! all that happens is the bottom jaw flaps up and down like a Thuderbird.

Lunaran - Have you played this game? I couldnt help but notice the bump mapping effects looked very good in places. I would guess that (certainly in places) people have done the overlay stuff by hand. 

One of the better shooters I've played in a long time.

And if you really want to see some sweet visuals, check out the Stalker: Clear Sky trailer here, with all the Direct X 10 eye-candy:

http://www.pcgames.de/aid,640665/Video/Ego-Shooter/Beeindruckendes_Direct-X-10-Video_zu_STALKER_Clear_Sky/

Coming in August... 

Stalker is flawed genius, there are very very few games that come close in terms of atmosphere, Stalker really manages to stick you right in there, sifting through a nuclear wasteland with danger everywhere.

The non linearity and open maps are both a boon and a curse however... I dont think the developers really managed to capture the open ended feel the game should have had. Too many times I cross a border into a new map and there will be the same 3 guys standing in the same place doing the same shit over and over.

I really do have high hopes for clear sky however, they have fixed just about everything that was wrong with Stalker (so they say) and added some great new features with the whole faction war thing. Not to mention it looks fucking fantastic! I'll be picking it up in a heartbeat. 

So I guess the bugfixes will not run on the same hardware as the game plus one has to pay to get them.

I am still waiting for some "make the sp enjoyable and great" patch. Good thing I sold the game when it still was worth some bucks. 

they have fixed just about everything that was wrong with Stalker

how do you know, have you played ClearSky beta or what? 0_o

stalker got patched, sp is enjoyable and spirit is a bitter game-hater :P 

Is it? I remember that the PDA thing drove me nuts, the map, the textstuff/missions/infos. And of course the "surprise spawn right in your face" enemies. 

If even spd calls you a bitter game-hater, you're really beyond remedy.. 

TBH I get a bit frustrated with Stalker too. And the map is about at usefull as a dogs chopped off tail. Navigation - just follow the arrow on the minimap...
And you have to quicksave all of the time too, cause 'realistic' combat = dead in 2 seconds. I'll be creeping through some basement, and - OK - I can see a haze in the room, but it doesnt stay in any specific place, so fair enough, I move forwards, the all of a sudden BOOM!!!! Im dead. So I quickload (already back in the same area) - repeat until I get lucky enough to survive.

The game is pretty addictive though, what it lacks in perfection I think it makes up in immersion. Feels like a real adventure! Took me a while to figure out how the task system works, as a result I completed a few tasks but was unable to collect my reward because the option to timed out.

None the less I can see me playing this one through! Not enough good shooters out these days. I was tempted by Blacksite: Area51, but apparently that sucks.

Roll on Aliens: Colonial Marine! :D 

the pda map and the spawns were fixed in the first patch a ~year ago. patch is a must

I played it on the max difficulty w/o any loading I got as far as 4th map. yeah it was hard, but Im hardcore!