STALKER In the News For All The Wrong Reasons

STALKER seems to have spent most of its gaming and development life in the news for all the wrong reasons. News being reported at other gaming sites seems to confirm this once again.

This all began in forums being reported by modders and then made mainstream gaming news. Users were reporting that STALKER used graphical assets (textures and what not) from other major release gaming titles, such as, Doom 3 and Half Life 2.

Todd Hollshead the CEO of id Software has said, "I've seen a post on a web forum that claims DOOM3 assets are used in another game, but we've been working hard on Enemy Territory: Quake Wars as well as our own internal project and have not had the time to fully investigate or otherwise verify that the claim is true. Only from what I've seen on the Web, it's concerning. However, it may turn out to be nothing. Nevertheless, it would be improper to make any decision about a course of action until we find out whether the claim is true, and what assets from DOOM3, if any, have potentially been used."

It is even being reported that the files used in STALKER have the same filenames as Doom 3. It will be interesting to see what comes of this. Whether it is, in fact, true or just wild speculation coming from the gaming community.