I have an mx440.

*tumbleweed*

I've played the game a bit now (played all night until 9 am lol) and it's quite nice so far. I had to turn down the lightning to static instead of dynamic, but now I'm getting decent frame rates of around 35-55 fps. The game is quite realistic overall, stamina bar, inaccurate weapons, you easily die, you have to take cover like Baron von Snickers says, maximum weight you can carry etc.

Some of the side quests are a bit pointless, because you only get some not-so-useful item and that's it. It's hard to tell whether or not the game would've been better with a leveling system, I guess it depends on who's playing it. I love collecting experience points and leveling, so I wouldn't have said no, but if you're more into realistic FPS games this is better.

I give S.T.A.L.K.E.R 8 candybars out of 10 so far.

EDIT: Awesome link RedWood

Which game was it where you had a chest in town to store stuff you wanted to retain, but not carry?

I remember playing it 5 or 10 years back.

I'm thinking Resident Evil as well. Awesome game btw.

It does indeed have a lot of bugs. The problem is that apparently old save files wont work after patching the game (which really sucks), at least this was the case with the 1.0001 patch.

Here's something I think is a bug: (WARNING FOR SPOILERS)

I managed to kill most of the enemies in the military camp I mentioned above (probably around 50 guys, which is a ridiculously large number). I then receive instructions over the radio to go back to the farm outside of the camp to receive my reward but no one's there and nothing happens when I get there. The mission is called Kill Lukash, and you have to take out three snipers and then kill the Lukash guy. Has anyone played this mission?

The mission isn't timed so I'll probably just take on another one and come back to this one later. Really sucks when there are so many bugs that the game is barely playable, and that you have to restart the whole game if you want to patch it.