

And there you are, crouching in the windswept reeds, taking cover from a military helicopter sweeping overhead, when you spot a bandit patrol coming straight towards you down one of the bog's many narrow gullies - their brains powered by an updated version of STALKER'S astounding A-Life system. It's a huge boggy mess, flooded long ago by a Soviet government far more interested in hydroelectricity than land management. The Sun Is setting on the vast, open marshland that constitutes Clear Sky's opening stages.
