We all loved STALKER. We loved it like we love old horror movies – it’s a beautiful, haunting, slightly chilling experience, that wraps you in its hard, gritty Ukrainian arms and waltzes you to a world so desperate and miserable that you can’t help but fall hopelessly in love with it.
It’s also undeniably and hopelessly broken. The AI is freakishly alien, it’s more full of bugs than your average Mississippi bog, and the entire experience is so blatantly cut down and unfinished; it’s hard to not feel a tinge of disappointment – nay, despair – at what STALKER could have been.
Until you install Oblivion Lost – and unleash the potential you’ve always known was hidden deep inside that bug ridden, many-facetted jewel of a game.
The first thing you should be excited about? You can drive cars. Fast, with scarily, reality-defying physics, but hey, I blame the Zone. Afterwards, you know what you’ll be able to do with your newly acquired, shiny, rust encrusted car? Drive it onto anomalies – new, enhanced, better than ever before anomalies, that’ll follow you around until they toss you and your ton of metal machinery into the air like some monstrous, mechanical ragdoll.
If, by some ungodly, superhuman miracle, you manage to resist the urge to grab the first vehicle you lay your eyes on and drive it as fast as you can into the distance – and impending, unavoidable death – you’ll find STALKER under Oblivion Lost’s new iron fisted rule is a whole new, far more open world to its predecessor – a living, breathing, MURDERING WORLD, READY TO CRUSH YOUR SOUL. With far crazier mutants, far more intelligent enemies, and periodic radioactive storms – blowouts – the world of STALKER is a whole new scary place for your head. Oh, and it has a night-time too, so you can have your own very little nightmares.
Thankfully, Oblivion Lost also kits you out to explore it, with what we gamers love the most: guns. Lots of guns. Hidden in lots of new stashes, so when you’re woken up from your horrendous, mutant filed nightmares – in your cosy new sleeping bag – you’ll have plenty to do, as long as you can survive the now regular faction warfare that’s all but guaranteed to explode around you.
It would take far, far, far too long to tell you everything Oblivion Lost adds to STALKER, and I couldn’t begin to start explaining every aspect of the original game it refines, perfects, and generally improves tenfold. Suffice to say, if you’ve played the original STALKER and wished it was just that much better, then hit up this sexy babe of a mod, and it’ll blow your mind away. With nuclear powered awesomesauce.
Why is it on our list?
Because it made STALKER the game we all wanted it to be, and then some.
Get it from
Some random forum thread – or just FileFront
Easy to install?
Install. Play. I’d say it was, yeah.
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Honestly I think the L.U.R.K mod is the best there is for stalker, but OL certainly is good.
OL was and still is amazing, but if you must talk about raising stalker to it’s full potential, you should also mention LURK and Super Mod Pack.
Both of them basically take OL and Arsenal Mod (Weapons) and take them in their own unique directions.
LURK takes the STALKER atmosphere and multiplies every aspect of it ten-fold. It’s scarier, creepier, darker, and more nerve-wracking. It also adds a myriad of balanced weaponry to the game, to fit with it’s darker style. If you want to shit your pants regularly, get this.
SMP takes what STALKER is, and just adds. And adds. And adds. Hundreds of weapons. Graphical improvements so vast that running them properly sometimes requires modding the way your operating system accesses RAM! (Due to the limits of the x-ray engine)
Everything that OL 2.2 was, SMP improves.
Everyone loves these Stalker mods, eh? Y’know, I’ve only briefly even touched one. I like my Stalker games as-is. :-)
I might have to re-install stalker for some jacked-up mod fun.
When I think of how Shadow of Chernobyl could have been improved, wacky vehicle physics is definitely the first thing that comes to mind.
all those mods stole from the mother of all STALKER mods that did it all before them.
A M K
Can’t understand why western journalists give only western mods credit. lazy bums
oblivion, amk are total conversions.
lurk, complete are vanilla+small bug fixes and visual enhancements, you just can’t compare them.
toni: A little put out that you think we’re giving this credit because we happen to be from the same part of the world. Oblivion Lost is a mod that, while I’ve never had much time for, the rest of the UserCreated lot really love. That’s why it’s on the list.
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