S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Sequel in the Works

GSC Game World's first-person title S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is getting a sequel according to a transcription of a Russian interview with president Sergey Grigorovitch. Blues cites two different websites that have provided rough English transcripts of the interview which apparently does confirm that a full sequel to the original game is in development.

Additionally, Grigorovitch goes on to say that there is an add-on for the original game also coming this autumn which will go by the name of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.

However, in an online conference* earlier this week, Grigorovitch was asked whether the April 2009 calendar featuring the words 'Call of Pripyat' in Russian was an April Fools' joke.

He replied* that this was not a joke and would be the name of the second expansion. He added* that this new expansion will be released later this year. Furthermore, a full S.T.A.L.K.E.R. title is also in development, although there's currently no information on when we will hear more about this.

While this news has yet to be confirmed by western sources, it is very likely that GSC Game World's plans for these two additions to the series will be unveiled at E3 2009.

Bryn says: It seems legit too me. I didn't get as into S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as some of the other guys in the office; mainly because my home PC gaming rig was getting a touch old and this was one of those pretty intense games in terms of system specs.

I did really enjoy what I played, and this news of a full-blown sequel certainly makes me want to run through as much of the original title as possible before getting excited about the upcoming games. Did you play a lot of S.T.A.L.K.E.R?

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