It isn’t unusual for online game tasks to be delayed by surprising points. However GSC Recreation World, the developer behind STALKER and its upcoming sequel, STALKER 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl, had the terrifying and distinctive expertise of being disrupted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Now, the primary trailer for a brand new documentary, Struggle Recreation: The Making of STALKER 2, chronicles the battle that the staff needed to undergo with a view to end the sport.
Andrew Stephan directed Struggle Recreation, which takes viewers behind the scenes at GSC Recreation World as their lives have been upended by the invasion. Inventive director Maria Grygorovych and her staff have been beforehand primarily based in Kiev earlier than the beginning of the warfare. However GSC Recreation World in the end needed to transfer growth from Kiev to Prague whereas the combat for his or her homeland continues to at the present time. Struggle Recreation was sponsored and produced by Microsoft, and it is going to be launched on Xbox’s official YouTube channel.
“It wasn’t my dream to do that movie,” Grygorovych instructed Selection. “However I actually suppose it is essential to share… We’re actually not public folks and it is laborious to share one thing private. However when this chance involves us from Microsoft, we thought that it is essential to share with the world a bit bit extra about how troublesome it’s to reside in a wartime from the private facet… While you see particular individuals who can share some actual story, perhaps somebody can think about how laborious it’s and why any warfare is one thing unhealthy. It is not possible for me to search out some motive to start out a warfare.”
Not all the staff members fled the nation, and a few stayed behind in Ukraine to combat. One in all STALKER 2’s builders, Volodymyr Yezhov, gave his life whereas defending town of Bakhmut from Russian forces in December 2022. Grygorovych famous that a few of GSC Recreation World’s programmers, QA members, and neighborhood managers enlisted with the Ukrainian military regardless of not being skilled troopers, and she or he hopes to welcome them again to the corporate when the warfare involves an finish.
Struggle Recreation: The Making of STALKER 2 will premiere on YouTube on October 3. STALKER 2 can be launched on Xbox Collection X|S and PC on November 20.