“Subconsciously, we were all ready to die.”

Ukrainian developerGSC Game Worldhas debuted a feature length and emotionally driven documentary about its upcoming release,Stalker 2.

Eventually, GSC set up a new base in Prague to continue work on Stalker 2.

Promo image for Stalker 2’s War Game documentary showing four developers sitting at computers as a battle goes on around them

The studio had to “arrange everything from scratch”, including a complete recasting of its actors.

“Some actors went to fight, some moved elsewhere, or just lost contact,” Grygorovych explained.

GSC then had to build a motion capture and audio recording studio to continue development.

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“We load our weapons with one hand and make the game with the other.”

you could watch War Game: The Making of Stalker 2 in full below.

Stalker 2 screenshot showing a group of men

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