Interesting...

Drfuzzy

<div class="IPBDescription">stalker film & Chernobyl</div>I was looking for some info on editing stalker and came across <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(film)#External_links" target="_blank">this wikipedia page</a> which has a link to <a href="http://www.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/Stalker/sharun.html" target="_blank">this</a>

The movie was made in 1978 and the accident happened in 1986, its interesting. Wonder if this is where they got the name for the game ^_^

Liku

Wikipedia agrees:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Some terminology of the game ("The Zone", "Stalker") as well as the background idea is borrowed from the popular science fiction book Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, as well as the 1979 film Stalker, which was adapted from the book.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Scythe

Yeah, it would seem that the Stalker devs took a LOT of pages from this movie when designing the game:

Anomalies, artifacts, throwing bolts to check the path is clear from "gravitational anomalies that could crush them".

Not to mention the <!--coloro:#041E2D--><span style="color:#041E2D"><!--/coloro-->wish-granter<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->.

--Scythe--

P.S. "041E2D" is the hex code of the background colour.

RustySpoon

I wouldn't go so far as to say the game devs took a LOT from the film/book. The film is wholly based on dialog and aesthetics, and there is no action whatsoever. Anomalies and such, too, are not even seen on screen once. They are supposedly there, but no one ever really sees one.