The article tells about how the chimera from "Stalker" looks, why this monster was cut from the final version and how to look at it.
"Stalker"
Games about post-apocalypse, a ruined world without people, or world disasters are now very popular. However, not only games. What are some book series about life after the end of the world, for which there is no end and end. It is difficult, but fair to say, when and why people were so keen on such topics that such a game as Stalker played an important role. It was developed alone for a long time, with a "creak", and fans were constantly tearing their hair out due to the endless release dates.
But after more than 5 years of expectations, the game still saw the light. And immediately on the forums and gaming thematic communities, many began to create angry topics that this is not the game that they were promised. Simply put, a lot of game content was cut out of it, including such a monster as a chimera. "Stalker", in addition to her, lost many interesting ideas and concepts.
Adaptation
The official answer of the developers was this: the game just went through adaptation for the western market. In fact, this is a normal process. Games are sometimes remade in trifles for different countries, that’s all the expected masterpiece about survival in the exclusion zone has undergone this process, having lost a lot of details and content. And including such a monster as a chimera. Stalker, of course, still collected a lot of prizes, awards and positive ratings, but from time to time, old concepts, ideas, and samples of what they cut out surfaced on the net.
Particularly added fuel to the fire mododels. It turned out that models, scripts, textures, voice acting and so on - all this remained in the game, you just need to be able to run it. One of the earliest mods also returned cut mutants, including one such as a chimera. “Stalker”, thanks to the variety of mods, is still alive today, and, unlike other games, amateur modifications are still released to it one better than the other. And some generally look more like individual games - they have a different game engine, etc.
The appearance of the chimera
True, many were surprised to see the chimera. She was described in documents and concepts of developers as a beautiful, plastic, flexible and very dangerous monster. And in the game she is represented by the usual clumsy mutant, albeit a strong one. And perhaps this is one of the reasons why they slaughtered such a monster as a chimera. "Stalker" in any case was the founder of a series of games with a similar concept and a series of books.