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WEC Le Mans was a fantastic game on the CPC. Horrendously under-rated, if I remember.

Pete said it well - it's based more on the movie Stalker than the Roadside Picnic novel, though (I'm about half-way through the latter, and thus far I do definitely recommend it). I have the DVD of Stalker, which I've been saving for a 'special occasion'. Might watch it tonight...

If I get bored enough this afternoon I'll re-type my pretentious 'first impressions' thing on Stalker again, Pupil, because it was ace, typically of my awesome self.

GazChap - no relation, sadly, but yeah, I had the Speccy version of WEC Le Mans and it was a rather ace little racer.

If you haven't seen it then I think you'll like it. It's a slow burner though, and not an easy watch. It's like Last of the Summer Wine but with the three duffers manically depressed and searching for the meaning of life in a wasteland of dilapidated industrial buildings and overgrown wilderness.

Hold on, that is Last of the Summerwine.

Also recommend: Russian Ark - I saw it at the cinema and its one of the most mind-blowing films ever, but possibly only if you see it on the big screen.

Anyone who thinks that the game conjures up even a fiftieth of the atmosphere of the film is a nutter. This includes both RuySan and CUS, both of whom are the wrongest people ever about STALKER.

It reminds me of DarkBASIC.

STALKER is a film throughout which you go "Whu?" and sit confused. And then a week later suddenly feel incredibly obsessed about and dream night after night and are compelled to watch it and rewatch it.

Also, watch the making of interviews. There's a very tragic and deeply sad story behind the making of STALKER, that puts 'OMG Brandon Lee!' etc sadly into the minor mishap category.

Aye - I've read the Wikipedia page on the film Stalker, and it really is a doomed affair. I'm quite certain I'll love the film, which is why I've been putting it off for so long - since about this time last year, in fact!

Irregardless of the game in comparison to its source material, it's hugely atmospheric and good and unlike anything else I've ever played.

Down-hill, in a bath on rollerskates?

Such out of control baths were a constant hazard for myself and my peers growing up in Holmfirth, we were always told at school to look both ways when crossing fields.

See - what did I say? Wrong.

Hold on, 'irregardless'?

*Aiee!*

(Hurls self out of window Billy Fan stylee)

Irregardlessly, I must depart from this topic.

Aaiee! Sorry. Myo, are you leaving because I said the evil word, or because we've had a page of Stalker dsicussion. Both are valid reasons I suppose, but you really should try Stalker.

I'd love to play STALKER, but I do not have a PC that would run it. Will a 360 release ever happen, do you think?

It's because you said the word, that's why.

A STALKER 360 release is supposed to happen this year sometime - hopefully including the 'Clear Sky' expansion/prequel that's coming out on the PC before then. However, given how long it took for the PC version of STALKER to come out, I wouldn't count on it.