Stalker Game loosely based on Stalker Film

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I went in to Borders today just browsing the many thousands of books they have there. My Dad pointed out this book they have "1001 films to see before you die". I looked in the Sci-Fi section of the book hoping to see one of the Quatermass films, only to my astonishment I found a 1979 Russian film titled "Stalker".

Flicking to that page, I found many similarities to the game that will be around soon. The main character is called a "Stalker", military patrols around "The Zone" and is set in the "Russian wilderness"

There is a persistent rumor that there was an antecedent, unpublicized Chernobyl-like disaster in the U.S.S.R. during the '50s, and this was what director Tarkovsky was using as his source material for this movie, aside from the short story "The Roadside Picnic". The Chernobyl event took place only a few years after Stalker was filmed, and the aftermath of that accident is the establishment of a "zone" surrounding the former nuclear complex.
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As you can see the game uses the 1980's Chernobyl disaster whilst the 1979 uses an earlier unpublisised disaster.

Heres a few links that I conjured up on my hunt:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=111585

I used "Stalker 1979 film plot" on my google search
 
I've seen this film in Fnac a few months ago, but I remembered they said they were inspired from somewhere. (or not :p)
 
Sprafa said:
I've seen this film in Fnac a few months ago, but I remembered they said they were inspired from somewhere. (or not :p)
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Was the film any good, or does it need a remake
 
Emmm... If I can find it, I'll buy it. Then I'll give it a rating. Apparently its subtitled because its still in Russian
 
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is also based on the book "Roadside Picnic", which is what the movie was at least partially based on.

So... Yeah.
 
the movie's a bit like 'Eraserhead' apparently, so if you like that you'll probably like the "STALKER" movie.
 
And S.T.A.L.K.E.R (wtf does that stand for, anyway?) apparently actually relates more closely to a fictional second incident at Chernobyl, rather than the original disaster, from what I've read...
 
Brian Damage said:
And S.T.A.L.K.E.R (wtf does that stand for, anyway?) apparently actually relates more closely to a fictional second incident at Chernobyl, rather than the original disaster, from what I've read...
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I thought STALKER game was based on an accident in 2020 or something, but the trailer states

IN 1986
MAN UNLEASHED HELL

So I'm beginning to think it was based on the original chernobyl disaster
 
The stalker film was directed by Tarkovsky (who also directed the original Solaris film). The premise of stalker the game is pretty much a rip on the film version albeit that the game is set in a real place where as the film is set in a fictional landscape.

I saw it quite a few years back when I was at College. It is a lengthy film and is pretty much best described as 'head' sci fi like solaris was. Saying that though, the cinematography is excellent and visually despite it's low-tech approach it isn't a film you easily forget about.
 
Kadayi Polokov said:
The stalker film was directed by Tarkovsky (who also directed the original Solaris film). The premise of stalker the game is pretty much a rip on the film version albeit that the game is set in a real place where as the film is set in a fictional landscape.

I saw it quite a few years back when I was at College. It is a lengthy film and is pretty much best described as 'head' sci fi like solaris was. Saying that though, the cinematography is excellent and visually despite it's low-tech approach it isn't a film you easily forget about.
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How long is the movie exactly and is it in Russian?
 
DEATH eVADER said:
I thought STALKER game was based on an accident in 2020 or something, but the trailer states

IN 1986
MAN UNLEASHED HELL

So I'm beginning to think it was based on the original chernobyl disaster
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Well, I'm pretty sure I read the "Second Incident" stuff in the developer diaries, which were written by one of the head guys, so I'm fairly confident it's legit.
 
DEATH eVADER said:
I went in to Borders today just browsing the many thousands of books they have there. My Dad pointed out this book they have "1001 films to see before you die". I looked in the Sci-Fi section of the book hoping to see one of the Quatermass films, only to my astonishment I found a 1979 Russian film titled "Stalker".

Flicking to that page, I found many similarities to the game that will be around soon. The main character is called a "Stalker", military patrols around "The Zone" and is set in the "Russian wilderness"



As you can see the game uses the 1980's Chernobyl disaster whilst the 1979 uses an earlier unpublisised disaster.

Heres a few links that I conjured up on my hunt:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=111585

I used "Stalker 1979 film plot" on my google search
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Someone probably said this already, but:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R is based on the book "Roadside Picnic" by Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky. The film is also based on this book.
 
DEATH eVADER said:
I thought STALKER game was based on an accident in 2020 or something, but the trailer states

IN 1986
MAN UNLEASHED HELL

So I'm beginning to think it was based on the original chernobyl disaster
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The story of the game put simply is:

In 2006 there was another accident in the Chernobyl Area(not at the power plan, approx 6Km away from it) this is now the epicenter of the 30SqKM game zone. In 2012 it is now semi-safe to enter the exclusion zone to find anonmylous objects which are exchanged for money by scientists etc
 
Although the area still experiences fluctuations in time and space, i.e. different levels of gravity (high/low), distortions, heat, electricity, and other effects, also there is still a very high level of radiation in some areas, causing mutations in animals...
 
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