Recent reviews by Peridoxide

https://youtu.be/Uwe5S3pn8Dk <- this says it all
If you ever bought this on its own and haven't received it as part of the bundle, I seriously feel sorry for you.

the dlc is predatory, vanilla is pretty hit and miss, but playing it with friends is great. i only have a few hours so maybe its because i can't find any good server, but yeah wow the servers kind of suck. get it on sale, 40$ for a game from 2013. that's like charging 20$ for the original cod today. in penummydox standards this game is worth ten bucks.

aside from having to do some retarded fix that these moronic developers cannot fix, and the original playing a whole lot better, it's a good game & worth the buy though i'd get it when it's on sale
10$ lol no thx

well not like you can buy it anymore, but good job epic games, killing the audience of your older games, for what? does it really cost that much to keep a server running when you earn probably millions by the day off fortnite sales alone???
pathetic.
it's a good game so I'm not gonna tarnish it by giving a negative review, but honestly, corporate greed has got its fingers in deep

just another run around & die simulator, overcomplicated gameplay, etc. bad mix, not for me

I've never really been a big RTS guy, but the first hour or so and I was hooked. phenomenal game.

An addendum:

Multiplayer isn't much fun without friends. You get the rare enjoyable match, but 90% of the time it's unjoinable because half of the people are halfwits who play realism mods with 1 hit kills regardless of armor and all these obnoxious unnecessary changes and mechanics. The other half is brainless idiots who play only Germany and just spawn the heaviest things in their arsenal and win purely by cheap tactics. There is no feasible way to counter them. Singleplayer is worth it, and friends make it all the more worthwhile.
If you pick your nose and eat your boogers then I guess multiplayer with randoms is right up your alley. The combined IQ of the players you'll meet just barely scrapes the surface of 5.

This game is a waste of life, played by wastes of life, developed by wastes of life. save your money, save your time, for the love of god go play an actual RTS and not this garbage. no bigger regret than agreeing to let my poor friend waste his well-earned 10$ to buy this on sale for me, that's how little this piece of junk is worth. NOTHING.
this game brings out the worst in people. if you're a politic loving monkey maybe just maybe it's for you. maybe if you love boring games with 0 visual stimulus, horrible user interface, 0 reward, incredibly difficult to learn gameplay, this game is for you.
garbage, garbage, garbage. through and through. If you or a friend has over 100 hours in this game, do them/yourself a favor and dial up a mental health doctor because something isn't working right in that head of yours.
I'll never understand how people can sink so much time and money into such a piss poor product.

these are all 3 very good games, and I would recommend playing them without mods instead of with. they will take you quite long to complete while giving you more time to immerse yourself in the zone. call of pripyat has the most to offer, although the use of guides will be a bit jarring coming from SoC and CS. can't navigate through any area without them, as far as I've seen. games might have been buggy messes on release but they are definitely serviceable products as they stand now. i personally dont understand the thirsting for mods unless you're replaying the game and want a new experience, so if it's your first time playing stalker, unmodded is the way to go.

It's a good game but the people who play this game are a special ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ breed of stupid and weird. I don't like these people.

another stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ overrated mod that is a headache to play
start was promising until it resorted back to the same old enemy spam the other game had
horrible mod that isn't worth anyones time. if you're stupid and stupid lore-breaks and stupid humour is your thing, then this stupid game is probably for you
not for me