Role-playing universe Stalker
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - A series of games developed by Ukrainian company GSC Game World.
Created in the genre of first-person shooter with elements of role-playing and action-adventure. Events unfold games at the present time, in the alternative world in Ukraine, in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl.
According to the story of the series, in 2006 the exclusion zone has undergone an unexpected abnormal influences, resulting in physical, chemical and biological processes in the area have changed. A host of anomalies, artifacts mutants.
In the ideas of the game clearly traced the influence of the book Strugatsky brothers' Roadside Picnic "and a film by Andrei Tarkovsky's" Stalker ".