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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Featured Game: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Low-end netbooks won't cut it
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Shadow_of_Chernobyl_cover.jpg Year: 2007
Genre: First-person Shooter + Survival Horror
Recommend: Depends





















 You know those old classics everyone loves that can run on anything? Well, this isn't one of those games. Fortunately, you can still play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on a netbook, but it can't be one of those sub-$300 ones.

What you'll need


Reviews and Awards

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. won GameSpot's Best Atmosphere award from Best and Worst of 2007. Reviews were generally positive; Eurogamer called it "one of the scariest games on the PC". However, it was criticized for its various bugs and mediocre story.

Tips

Since all netbook GPU's support D3D 9, you might as well enable some kind of dynamic lighting. Both Nvidia's and AMD's GPU's can handle it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Stalkershot_2.jpg
Screenshot from Wikipedia

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