Southern Comfort (S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Book 1) by Balazs Pataki

By Balazs Pataki

In 2011, one other area is outwardly created after Al-Qaeda detonated nukes in Afghanistan. Ukrainian specialists ship a study group to ensure the claims. The scientists move lacking and a seek and rescue operation is launched.

For Mikhailo Tarasov, officer within the military who desperately attempt to comprise the Exclusion area, this mutant-infested desert is his domestic turf. but if he units out on his challenge into the recent sector, he quickly reveals himself dealing with perils he hasn't ever encountered prior to. His venture turns into a fight opposed to evil permeating the wastelands, faced with the shadows of the country's bothered background. Tarasov is aided through not likely allies - outcasts, adventurers, renegade US Marines and a mysterious girl who seems to be the keeper of darkish secrets and techniques. yet past the entire perils, the final word threat awaits: betrayal.

"Whatever energy had created the area, it has outsmarted us and it has occurred back. you'll examine the recent sector with clean eyes... like Strelok did right here while every little thing began."
Major Alexander Degtyarev, 2014

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There are a finite number of ammo containers in the game, even if you buy more ammo from the Vendor, which requires Gems, the population of which is also finite. It’s easy to find yourself with five Bullets left and a horde of Lions dancing around you, wandering through a darkened labyrinth. The other resources you always run out of are Torches. Most of the ZZT series is well-lit (except for Caves of ZZT, whose locations are connected by a nexus of twisting, darkened tunnels), but each game features at least a few rooms that are Dark.

Shareware “KILL BARNEY” shooting galleries, Wolfenstein mods, 49 ZZT games. There are more games starring Barney the Dinosaur than Super Mario. My second game was an adventure about a hamster—represented by ZZT’s happy white smiley face, of course—who fought weird-colored Lions and Tigers by a fluorescent river and a lime green forest. I got the distinct impression that the hamster in the game was named for someone’s real live hamster. There was probably a lot of vulgarity in it. This was the landscape of user-created ZZT: in-jokes, author self-insertion, music references, Barney the Dinosaur.

There are a finite number of ammo containers in the game, even if you buy more ammo from the Vendor, which requires Gems, the population of which is also finite. It’s easy to find yourself with five Bullets left and a horde of Lions dancing around you, wandering through a darkened labyrinth. The other resources you always run out of are Torches. Most of the ZZT series is well-lit (except for Caves of ZZT, whose locations are connected by a nexus of twisting, darkened tunnels), but each game features at least a few rooms that are Dark.

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