NEW YORK: STALKER developer has made a plan about the story of the West Games to bring back the STALKER franchise in some form that would meet series’ fans expectations.
The newly-revived GSC GameWorld, the original developer behind the STALKER series has called into question whether or not West Games has the resources in order to build a game that would live up to what STALKER fans have come to expect.
Last year West Games had their Kickstarter campaign for STALKER spiritual successor Areal frozen as information emerged indicating that they might not be on the level. Since then they have started a new project called STALKER Apocalypse and moved their campaign to new crowd-funding platform World Wide Funder which allows its campaigns to keep the money raised even if they don’t make their target. GSC GameWorlds’ PR boss Valentine Yeltyshev believes it is a con though. He stated, “They are trying to steal money from people with this crowdfunding website. With Kickstarter first … and now they are using some weird, other platform. Who is so stupid as to give them money? These guys do not even have an adequate team to make a game half as big as the original STALKER, let alone a full game.”
He also shed some light on what links the named staff of West Games to the STALKER franchise. They were originally employed at GSC GameWorld to work on a web-based isometric STALKER title that was canned when the studio realised that it wouldn’t be up to the standard of the rest of the series.
He explained, “We started to develop a Flash-based, a web-based STALKER before 2011. An isometric, open-world STALKER. And that was these guys [that make up the core of West Games]. When we realized that this project would not be as good as we wanted it to be, we closed the project.”
