You can only carry 60 pounds at any one time, you have to handle blood loss when shot and your aim is not super accurate unlike most FPS games. Other than the mysterious background, you will soon find out that you are nothing special and just as likely to end up dead as anyone else. Once you awaken you realize that you have no idea who you are and have one simple mission on your PDA, find and kill a man named Strelok.
Upon taking you in they notice you are marked with a tattoo and are dubbed the nickname Marked One. You are some nameless man that falls off a truck full of corpses and to your luck are rescued by someone that finds out you are alive. The prospect of getting rich quick has brought many people into the disaster zone, simply referred to as The Zone, that is brimming with death and ambition. This second disaster has caused serious harm to the natural state of things by creating abominations, rips in reality and most importantly new objects known as Artifacts that grant unnatural benefits to its holder or can be sold for serious profit.
Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl is an FPS taking place in an alternative reality in where a second disaster occurs in the famous Chernobyl nuclear plant.