Stalker 2 studio releases 90-min documentary about ending the sport throughout Russia’s invasion

Stalker 2 developer GSC Recreation World has launched a 90-minute documentary about finishing the sport throughout a Russian invasion.

The Ukrainian studio was initially set to releasse the sport in late 2022, however when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 improvement was placed on maintain.

The invasion led to a number of the builders relocating to a brand new workplace within the Czech Republic, however the mixture of this upheaval and Russia’s continued assault meant the sport’s improvement continued to undergo quite a few delays.

Nevertheless, the sport is lastly set for launch on November 20, and the documentary launched right this moment – which is known as Struggle Recreation: The Making of Stalker 2 and may be seen beneath – sheds some gentle on the previous few years of improvement.

The documentary was created in partnership with Xbox and was directed by Andrew Stephan (who beforehand directed the four-hour Xbox documentary Energy On).

“This movie isn’t simply concerning the hardest recreation improvement of all time,” Stephan stated in an announcement. “It’s about resilience and the unyielding human spirit within the face of unimaginable challenges.

“It’s concerning the significance of creation in a time of destruction, a defiant act of creating one thing significant within the face of adversity.”

Stalker 2 artistic director Mariia Grygorovych added: “Talking personally, Stalker 2 is the most important and essentially the most advanced online game in my life. It was bold from the very starting, however turned out to be an final problem by itself.

“It’s extraordinarily necessary and intensely private, and it’s a recreation made in essentially the most worrying circumstances doable. That features the pandemic, relocation, cyberattacks and, above all of that, conflict tearing our Homeland aside.

“I want the conflict by no means occurred. I want all of this by no means occurred. However it did. And we’re grateful for the chance to share all of this with the world, as a result of the world ought to know. That is us. That is our story”