A good DLC.
About 20 hours of new content, half of it being spent in existing areas, the rest in two new areas.
The first one, Iron Forest, is very good. The second, CNPP, well... It's obviously amazing to be there, and the central building itself is incredible, but two very large issues arise:
- there is a anomaly that kills you in a few seconds if you're out in the open, and it has a range of several hundreds of meters. this forces you to play hide and seek constantly, but the game requires you to traverse the area a lot, IN THE OPEN. there is a quest to get rid of this anomaly, and its the worst quest in the game by far. long, drawn out, a lot of back and forth, and a final platforming section + find the pixel amount billions of other pixels (AND MINE WAS BUGGED AND WAS FOUND 50 METERS BELOW INTENDED LOCATION!!!!!), just terrible.
- to go along with it, there are many areas around the CNPP that are fenced in. everywhere. so you take ages going around the fences, while having to hide every 3 seconds from the frying brain anomaly. NOT FUN.
other than that, the main story of this DLC, and the side quests, are of very high quality. I prefered this DLC's story than the main game's, which was already pretty good.
besides the new locations, one or 2 artifacts, and a few weapons (which are technically tied to the 2.0 update and not the DLC), there is surprising little new content in this DLC. its just more stalker 2 with a more defined story. if thats what you want, then easy purchase.
