Slow Burn

Not too long ago, I saw Stalker for the first time, (Tarkovsky, 1979). The film is truely on another level of cinema, so beautiful that it makes me happy just to know it exists. We actually drank to it's brilliance at a pub a couple of weeks ago. There's a slow-burn, highly visual theme to the film, you are immersed in the setting just through the immaculate, gentle pacing. Its a story about a place where people have to leave behind their selfishness in order to survive, and learn an ultimate truth about themselves, that may be their undoing.

Vector Park is about the joys of exploration. The unexpected discoveries of a world that obeys unusual sets of laws. It responds to your input in rewarding ways. It also looks and sounds delightful. Welcoming, but also subtly unsettling: lonely. It is, in fact, an excellent gaming equivelent to Stalker.

I'd love to see a more substantial 3D furthering of what Vector Park does so eloquently, combined with a sense of majestic atmosphere Stalker evokes.