

We had the chance to play some four-player deathmatch of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. will avoid being released next to Doom 3 and (most likely) Half-Life 2. Part of the reason for this was to give GSC some more time to polish this ambitious and beautiful-looking first-person shooter, but it also didn't hurt that by delaying to 2005, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. With Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 dominating the landscape for PC first-person shooters this year, THQ and developer GSC GameWorld recently announced that they were pushing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl to early 2005.
