Having played the original as a kid and coming back to this version, I have had an awesome experience!
I haven't run into any bugs and overall the playthrough has been really smooth.

Bonus points because I was given this game for owning the old one.
9.5/10

Stalker is such a unqiue and fun game. Decided to give this a go after playing it years ago when it first game out and it's just as good as i remember. The story is great and has a good twist if ur playing it for the first time. Weapons are good although they can take some getting use to as the bullet spray can be all over the place in the low teir guns. The world and atmosphere is awesome, it truely feels like you are in a post apocalyptic world expecially with all the radiation, anomalies and constant warfare. You can tell it is their first game with a lot of game mechanics in place although they are quite limited and aren't fleshed out. Had a annoying grahpical bug throughout the game which was kinda annoying, apart from that it ran pretty smooth. I can recommend this game as it really connects the story for the later games and is short fun entry in the series

its a very good game . But remove the Russian is a big immersive breaker.