It isn’t unusual for online game initiatives to be delayed by surprising points. However GSC Game World, the developer behind STALKER and its upcoming sequel, STALKER 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl, had the terrifying and distinctive expertise of being disrupted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Now, the primary trailer for a brand new documentary, War Game: The Making of STALKER 2, chronicles the wrestle that the crew needed to undergo in an effort to end the sport.
Andrew Stephan directed War Game, which takes viewers behind the scenes at GSC Game World as their lives have been upended by the invasion. Artistic director Maria Grygorovych and her crew have been beforehand primarily based in Kiev earlier than the beginning of the conflict. However GSC Game World in the end needed to transfer growth from Kiev to Prague whereas the combat for his or her homeland continues to at the present time. War Game was sponsored and produced by Microsoft, and it is going to be launched on Xbox’s official YouTube channel.
“It wasn’t my dream to do that movie,” Grygorovych informed Variety. “However I actually suppose it is vital to share… We’re actually not public individuals and it is exhausting to share one thing private. However when this chance involves us from Microsoft, we thought that it is vital to share with the world a little bit bit extra about how troublesome it’s to reside in a wartime from the non-public aspect… Once you see particular individuals who can share some actual story, perhaps somebody can think about how exhausting it’s and why any conflict is one thing unhealthy. It is unimaginable for me to search out some motive to start out a conflict.”
Not all the crew members fled the nation, and a few stayed behind in Ukraine to combat. One in all STALKER 2’s builders, Volodymyr Yezhov, gave his life whereas defending the town of Bakhmut from Russian forces in December 2022. Grygorovych famous that a few of GSC Game World’s programmers, QA members, and neighborhood managers enlisted with the Ukrainian military regardless of not being skilled troopers, and she or he hopes to welcome them again to the corporate when the conflict involves an finish.
War Game: The Making of STALKER 2 will premiere on YouTube on October 3. STALKER 2 can be launched on Xbox Collection X|S and PC on November 20.