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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53594

Shacknews is reporting that various message board forums have claimed bits of artwork in GDC GameWorld's recent post-apocalypse first person shooter
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl may have been lifted from previously released games like id Software's Doom 3 and Valve's Half-Life 2. They offer compar

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lmer · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject:

I remember playing the very early leaked build of STALKER, a few years a go and seeing Quake3 assets in the game data which i know very well. This doesn't surprise me.

WillieT · Contributor Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 46

I really hope they get nailed for this.. such a poorley made game. seemed like diffrent companies did each part of the game and just patched it all together in a weird mix..

darknothing · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:40 am Post subject:

the games awesome everyone i told about the game cant stop playing it,

xxxxx+ · Contributor Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 19

Of course they're gonna replicate code from a multi-million-dollar game like doom 3 - which was like ...years... ago, now. That's how games evolve - they use what's been made - and enhance it. improve it. That's life. These guys who made STALKER (if you've EVER played it) obviously are totally committed to it's success and ability to change the whole face of FPS gaming. I applaud them, if they used some code from the -now dated- Doom 3 and it's file names, and improved upon it. You mean you've never done that, in your work? .....