The Duty are a paramilitary organization that believes the Zone is a threat to humanity that must be destroyed. Many of them are working on their own, though there are also several organized factions present. People who have come to explore the Zone in search of personal enrichment such as artifacts are known as 'stalkers'. The anomalies are causing artifacts to appear, which are items with unique and extraordinary properties such as anti-gravity or radioactivity absorption. After the second disaster, the Zone grew rich with anomalies - inexplicable phenomena that don't obey the laws of physics or common sense (such as pillars of fire, lightning scatter, whirlwinds that tear everything that falls into them, etc). Due to the experiments conducted in these laboratories, a second catastrophe occurred in 2006, which caused physical and meteorological phenomena all over the exclusion zone and mutation of local plant and animal life. The franchise takes place in an alternate Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (or simply 'the Zone'), where a number of classified laboratories were established following the nuclear disaster of 1986. Setting Timeline of releases 2007Īttendees of fan festival Stalker-Fest 2009 The name 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R.' is a backronym for Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers and Robbers. The series is loosely based on the novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and influenced by the movie Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky. The player takes the role of a 'stalker' - a name given to trespassers and adventurers who have come to explore the exclusion zone and its strange phenomena. As a result, the physical, chemical, and biological processes in the area were altered, spawning numerous nature-defying anomalies, artifacts, and mutants. The series is set in an alternate version of the present-day Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, where, according to the series' backstory, a mysterious second Chernobyl disaster took place in 2006.

is a first-person-shooter survival horror video game series developed by GSC Game World.

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