You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games here GSC Game World has released Stalker: Legends of the Zone Enhanced Edition as a free upgrade for gamers on PC, Xbox and PlayStation. The new remasters, which enhance visuals and offer modern performance optimisations, have been met with immediate review bombs with many taking issue at the censorship of Russian content. A Ukrainian adaptation of the Russian book Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the Stalker video game series has a large number of Russian fans. However, following the country’s invasion of Ukraine which has resulted in the deaths of countless civillians, developer GSC Game World decided to remove Russian languages and Soviet era iconography from its releases. All three entries of the new remasters are sitting at “Mostly Negative” on Steam. While the original Stalker Trilogy is still available in an untouched form on PC, the developer’s new Enhanced Edition games no longer include the originals’ Russian voice options. Following the release of the new remasters, PC players on Steam immediately took to review bombing the new releases for their removal of Russian content. There are some major issues with the new remasters of the original Stalker Trilogy, including a weird blurry look even when you disable the game’s on-by-default FSR image reconstruction. However, while the game does technically run slower than before, it is a much more stable experience with less crashes, hitching and other major issues that plagued the originals. Thankfully, on PC, GSC Game World has not removed the original games from sale in favour of its own remasters. Gamers who buy the remasters have instant access to their original versions; everyone who owns the original also has access to the new versions of the games. Stalker: Legends of the Zone Enhanced Edition is a weird issue. The remasters are clearly decent options, and there will undoubtedly be a Steam Workshop mod to re-add the removed Russian content in the very near future. However, there are real issues such as the bizarrely blurry visuals, newly introduced bugs and more. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow Of Chernobyl Platform: PC Genre: Action, First Person, Shooter 8 VideoGamer Subscribe to our newsletters! By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime. Share #stalker #legends #zone #trilogy #enhanced