Xbox and GSC Game World developer have released a trailer for ‘War Game: The Making Of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2’ about the impact of the full-scale invasion on the development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Team members, particularly Maria Grygorovych, the studio’s creative director, talk about it in the film
Prior to the russian invasion, GSC Game World was based in Ukraine, and in 2022, some employees were moved to Prague to complete S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2.
In comments to Variety, Xbox general manager of programming and events Tina Summerford said that in late 2022, the company offered the studio to make a film.
‘Every day we see firsthand the difficulty and challenges of making games, but this was on a completely different scale. In late 2022, we pitched the idea of a documentary film. GSC had a story that deserved to be told, and we felt we were best positioned to help them tell it’, she explained.
According to Maria Grygorovych, the team was ‘scared’ to make ‘War Game’ because they are not public people, but the developers agreed in order to tell about how difficult it is to live in a wartime:
‘Mostly people only see something if something terrible happens and everybody, I hope, thinks, ‘Oh, it’s bad’. But when you see specific people who can share some real story, maybe someone can imagine how hard it is and why any war is something bad. It’s impossible for me to find some reason to start a war’.
The documentary was directed by Andrew Stephan, who previously worked on the documentary ‘Power On: The Story of Xbox’.
The film ‘War Game: The Making Of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2’ will be released on the Xbox YouTube channel on October 3.
What other documentaries about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 have been released
In August 2024 GSC Game World released a video ‘S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Developer Deep Dive’, where they showed the walkthrough of one of the missions in the game’s Swamp region, as well as talked about the game world of the project.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl will be released on November 20. We told you more about the game in our article.
