The year is 2012. It has been 6 years since second nuclear meltdown happend in Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which caused Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to expand. Government is sending Millitary to protect enterances to the Exclusion Zone, because of numereous secrets and new unexplored locations, as well hostile mutated animals and other creatures. Unidentified people known as S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s penetrate illegaly into the Zone looking for easy cash or for finding and selling strange "Artefacts" on black market. Player is given a role of "Marked One", stalker with amnesia, saved from a "Death Truck". You are going to learn about your past, while exploring and surviving in the cruelty of The Zone.
—riseofeagle