Ukrainian developer GSC Game World has debuted a feature length and emotionally driven documentary about its upcoming release, Stalker 2.
The documentary, War Game: The Making of Stalker 2, touches on the developer’s history and details what it has been like to work on the forthcoming sequel during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Since 2022, GSC has delayed Stalker 2 delayed several times and relocated staff to safely finish the project elsewhere, while others have joined Ukraine’s armed forces, and dealt with Russian hackers who leaked test builds.
War Game: The Making of Stalker 2 features a number of interviews with developers, including creative director Mariia Grygorovych, who called the upcoming release “the biggest game in the history of the company”.
The documentary covers a significant portion of Ukraine’s history and how it has influenced the developer, including the Chornobyl nuclear disaster and the day Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, before going deeper into Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022.