New STALKER Q&A at Gameguru Mania

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New STALKER Q&A at Gameguru Mania

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<a href="http://ggmania.com">Gameguru Mania</a> has posted an <A href="http://www.ggmania.com/full.php3?show=5 ... terview</a> with <b>Alexei Sytyanov</b> about several of the concepts of <A href="http://www.gsc-game.com/main.php?t=pres ... 1">STALKER: Oblivion Lost</a>, including the genre classification, the story line, some background on the setting, interactions with NPCs, and so on. Here's a bit about the NPCs:<br><Br><blockquote><b>Communication with NPC</b><br><br>Communication of player and game characters will be an important part of gameplay. By means of communication player can find out important information, obtain a task, trade or arrange cooperation in performing a task. <u>Apart from humans, the player can communicate even with sapient mutant creatures.</u> During the talk with NPC game will not be interrupted. If the player says something and walks away from the character, the latter can re-ask or complain of hearing the player badly. Thus, for example, you can communicate with a teammate by sitting in an ambush and observing enemy movements or attack your interlocutor. And of course, the conversation can be broken off at any moment, and it’s possible to interrupt interlocutor’s verbiage with another question.<br><br><u>NPC’s attitude towards player will strongly influence the communication.</u> For example, under a bad attitude towards player trader will refuse to trade or will charge an extortionate price, while stalkers will start shooting as soon as they identify the player.<br><br>Another bright innovation in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost will be NPC stalkers, who will be able to travel the whole game world just like the player. <u>They will perform tasks, fight with each other, trade and communicate without player interference.</u> We hope to keep up to a hundred of stalkers in the Zone. Also, we’ll implement a stalker rating system listing stalker description, his character, state and peculiarities.</blockquote><br><br>Interestingly enough, this game has basically gone from being described as a <i>tactical third person shooter</i> to an <i>action RPG</i> by the developers.<br><br>This was spotted at <a href="http://voodooextreme.com">VE</a>.
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