Lost Alpha is something of a detective job: the game's developers have scoured all the available information on what was there and attempted to restore it. You can't call a game that took six years to be made 'a rush job', but there were bloody stumps where limbs used to be. When Shadow of Chernobyl was first released, it was clear that the developers had cut corners. You're still a wonderful and cruel bastard of a game, and A-Life still has the power to give me fireside stories. Apart from guns and bullets, it was his only possession, and it'll forever remain in a corner of my backpack. The squad that killed him is dead and looted, and I have a useless harmonica that I took from his corpse. I have plenty of supplies, but I've earned every one of them, and survived without having to beg for help in the dirt. Later, as I cower in the corner of a building, staunching wounds with a med pack that could have saved him, I still feel bad about it. I moved through the building and saw a military patrol standing over the corpse. As I was gathering things, I heard a snap and spotted the colour drain out of the dot. It was strangely comforting to wake and hear his wail. I fell asleep as that pained call for help cut through the rain and thunder, and I hoped he understood that I couldn't face the night again. I was ignoring a dying man surrounded by corpses. I filled up and checked my map to see a coloured dot surrounded by grey dots. I got lucky: there were shelves of supplies.
The only comfort you'll find in Stalker is near the glow of a burning barrel, and I'd just escaped from a huge military compound with a scrap of health left.
I stumbled through the rain towards a building lit from within by a brazier, ignoring the sting of guilt that jabbed with every groan in the air. I could tell that someone nearby was curled up and dying in the rain, but I was bleeding, exhausted, out of bullets and low on everything. I don't speak Russian, but I can recognise a cry of pain in any language. It's all different, but if you loved the first Stalker, instead of reinstalling the original and modding it, when this is fixed it'll be your next install. It's as close to a remix as I've ever come across in gaming, bringing in new elements, but still reminding me of the original. It's still Stalker, still based on the first game, but at the same time it's not. The developers have chosen to release it earlier than planned, and I decided to try it out. The game, a fan-fronted effort to reconnect all the elements that were cut from Shadow of Chernobyl, was leaked during development. Stalker: Lost Alpha is out, but it's not finished.
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